Shigeru Amachi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-03-04
Day of Death
1985-07-27 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Shigeru Amachi
Biography
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.
Acting
(1985)
(1985)
(1984)
(1984)
(1984)
(1984)
(1984)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
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(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
(1981)
(1980)
Port Arthur
as Kentaro Kaneko
(1980)
(1980)
(1979)
(1979)
(1979)
Demonic Beauty
as 明智小五郎
(1979)
(1979)
(1978)
(1978)
(1978)
(1978)
(1978)
(1978)
(1977)
The Faceless Man
as Kogoro Akechi
(1972)
(1972)
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as Ryukichi
(1972)
(1972)
Eight Men to Kill
as Azami Yajuro
(1971)
(1971)
(1971)
(1970)
(1969)
25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
as Amachi
(1969)
(1968)
(1967)
Classmates
as Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya
(1967)
The Silent Gun
as Junta Kimura
(1967)
Shroud of Snow
as Guntaro
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1966)
Zatoichi's Vengeance
as Genpachiro Kurobe
(1966)
Yakuza Hooligans
as Sugiyama
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
(1965)
Sword of the Beast
as Vice-Counselor
(1965)
(1965)
Trigger Happy Romeo
as Junta Kimura
(1965)
A Lonely Gamble
as Teijiro Chigusa
(1965)
The Third Contest
as Genba
(1965)
The Dedicated Gunman
as Junta Kimura
(1965)
(1964)
(1964)
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Seiji Nawate
(1964)
(1963)
The Third Shadow Warrior
as Sadamitsu Miki
(1963)
Shinsengumi Chronicles
as Toshizo Hijikata
(1963)
(1963)
(1962)
The Tale of Zatoichi
as Miki Hirate
(1962)
(1962)
Destiny's Son
as Sôshi Tada
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
The Lightning Sword
as Higashinosuke Yamagata
(1961)
(1961)
Fire Line
as Kuroiwa
(1961)
(1961)
(1961)
Counterattack of a Queen Bee
as Muteppô no Masa
(1960)
Jigoku
as Shirô Shimizu
(1960)
Yellow Line
as Kazuhiro Moroki
(1960)
(1960)
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
as Lt. Commander Fushimi
(1960)
Black Line
as Koji Machida
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
皇室と戦争とわが民族
as Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki
(1960)
(1959)
The Ghost of Yotsuya
as Iemon Tamiya
(1959)
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
as First Officer of the Yamato
(1959)
The Lady Vampire
as Nobutaka Takenaka
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
Queen of the China Sea
as First Lieutenant Yokoyama
(1959)
Elegy of a Geisha
as Hayase Chikara
(1959)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Queen Bee's Anger
as Noboru Gôda
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Queen Bee
as Mazaki
(1957)
(1957)
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
as Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1956)
(1956)
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Assistant Osugi
(1956)
(1956)
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: 6 Famous Beauties
as Asaka Keinosuke
(1956)
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
as Yûzô Yamauchi
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1954)
(1953)
Crew
(1984)
Hizoban Higasa no onna
Director, Screenplay