Shigeru Amachi
Shigeru Amachi (天知 茂, Amachi Shigeru, 4 March 1931 – 27 July 1985) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1953 to 1984. Amachi joined the Shintoho studio as one of its "New Face" actors of 1951 and established himself in action and jidaigeki films. He gained fame for the nihilistic mood of his character in Akatsuki no hijōsen and starred in Nobuo Nakagawa's version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959). On television, he played the hardboiled detective in Hijō no raisensu and Kogoro Akechi in a long-running series of TV specials. On stage he was best known for playing Hishakaku in Jinsei gekijō.
The Tale of Zatoichi
as Miki HirateThe adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a...
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
as Iemon TamiyaThis horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to...
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Jigoku
as Shirô ShimizuA group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all...
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Sword of the Beast
as Vice-CounselorLegendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the...
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Port Arthur
as Kentaro KanekoDepicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified...
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The Beast and the Magic Sword
as KianHis bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his...
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Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
as HitmanIn the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime)...
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The Lady Vampire
as Nobutaka TakenakaTamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
as Genpachiro KurobeZatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no...
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Modern Lady Gambler
as uncreditedFujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as uncredited[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni...
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Rusty Knife
as uncreditedUdaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district...
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
as uncreditedAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the...
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Eight Men to Kill
as Azami YajuroThe third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a...
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Destiny's Son
as Sôshi TadaThe son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving...
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
as uncreditedMeiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
as AizenNemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
as Toshizo HijikataAs winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its...
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Dead Angle
as uncreditedElite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Seiji NawateAn early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
as Sadamitsu MikiIn the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a...
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
as First Officer of the YamatoIn 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as RyukichiPresident of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...
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Ghost in the Regiment
as uncreditedDesiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason...
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The Silent Gun
as Junta KimuraA series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38....
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Kanei Command Performance
as uncreditedDuring the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine...
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Mole Alley
as uncredited33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie,...
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Ren'ai Zubari Kôza
as uncreditedA omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kôshoku".
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Black Line
as Koji MachidaFreelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black...
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The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
as uncredited15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
as uncreditedA samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel...
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Easy Money
as uncreditedAn action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
as uncreditedTsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down...
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Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
as uncreditedJapanese mystery film.
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
as uncreditedOriginal work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which...
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Assistant OsugiA 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
as uncreditedDuring the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss...
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The Rambler Rides Again
as uncreditedIn this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to...
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The Dedicated Gunman
as Junta KimuraThird film in the "Inu" series.
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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
as Lt. Commander FushimiDuring the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan....
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The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
as Staff Sergeant TsuneyoshiThe year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The...
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Twilight Saloon
as uncreditedTakes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
as uncreditedPart 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Secret White Line Zone
as uncreditedFirst film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
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The Boss
as uncreditedTeruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and...
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The tragedy of a young warrior
as uncreditedShortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori...
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Shroud of Snow
as Guntaro1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains...
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Blackmail Is My Life
as uncreditedThough he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the...
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The Faceless Man
as Kogoro AkechiFirst in a series of Japanese TV movies which were based on horror-tinged mystery novels by...
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Empress
as uncreditedA struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as...
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The Lightning Sword
as Higashinosuke YamagataShinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to...
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Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"
as Kogoro AkechiKogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another!
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The Edo Fortune-Teller
as uncreditedKarasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to...
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The Third Contest
as GenbaMondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a...
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Assassins for sale
as uncreditedNagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the...
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Fire Line
as KuroiwaTwo young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the...
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Queen of the China Sea
as First Lieutenant YokoyamaRika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However,...
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A Lonely Gamble
as Teijiro ChigusaIn post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a...
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Beyond the Hills
as uncreditedOn September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled...
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The Horizon Glitters
as uncredited5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds.
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Yakuza Hooligans
as SugiyamaA bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up...
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: 6 Famous Beauties
as Asaka KeinosukeFamed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful...
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Queen Bee
as MazakiEarlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.
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Homeless Dog
as uncreditedFirst movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
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Quick-Draw Dog
as uncreditedQuick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the...
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Ankoku gai jingi
as uncreditedA big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it...
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Yellow Line
as Kazuhiro MorokiThe murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a...
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Morishige no demakase shinshi
as uncreditedScammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
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Zoku teppō inu
as uncreditedZoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the...
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Samurai Secret Agent
as uncreditedA master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory...
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怒号する巨弾
as uncreditedAt the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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