Hiroshi Akutagawa

Born: 1920-03-20

Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.


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Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Koichi Kido (uncredited)
Released: 1970-01-26

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...

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Dodes'ka-den

as Hei
Released: 1970-10-01

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...

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A Thousand and One Nights

as Badli (voice)
Released: 1969-06-14

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...

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Night and Fog in Japan

as Prof. Udagawa
Released: 1960-10-09

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other...

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

as uncredited
Released: 1953-11-23

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...

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The Rickshaw Man

as Capitaine Kotaro Yoshioka
Released: 1958-04-21

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...

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Where Chimneys Are Seen

as Kenzo Kubo
Released: 1953-03-05

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the...

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The Wild Geese

as Mr. Okada
Released: 1953-09-15

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself...

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A Certain Woman

as Kibe
Released: 1954-03-13

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Night Butterflies

as Osamu Harada
Released: 1957-04-01

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1969-10-16

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...

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The Twilight Story

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-28

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...

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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

as Mizuno Echizennokami
Released: 1970-04-18

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...

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Till We Meet Again

as uncredited
Released: 1950-03-21

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

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Eyes of Children

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-15

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An...

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Kyoto

as Narrator
Released: 1969-01-01

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a...

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Jose Torres II

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1965-03-04

This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who...

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Hōryū-ji

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1958-01-01

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese...

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Minamoto no Yoshitsune

as Minamoto no Yoritomo
First aired: 1966-01-02

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late...

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Haru no Sakamichi

as Yagyū Munetoshi
First aired: 1971-01-03

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

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