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.
Known For
Acting
(1985)
Beauty with a mysterious scar
as Kogoro Akechi
(1985)
The Beauty of the Black Pearl
as Kogoro Akechi
(1985)
The Psychological Test
as Akechi Kogorō
(1984)
(1984)
Beauty in the Flames
as Kogoro Akechi
(1984)
Beauty of the Forbidden Fruit
as Kogoro Akechi
(1984)
(1984)
(1983)
Angel and Devil Beauty: Edogawa Ranpo's "Daydream"
as Kogoro Akechi
(1983)
White skinned beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1982)
The Beauty at the Dressing Table
as Kogoro Akechi
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island
as Kogoro Akechi
(1982)
Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake
as Kogoro Akechi
(1981)
(1981)
Beauty in the Mirror Hell
as Kogoro Akechi
(1980)
Port Arthur
as Kentaro Kaneko
(1980)
(1980)
Edogawa Ranpo Series: Enchanted Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
(1979)
(1979)
Red Scorpion Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
(1979)
Black Lizard
as Kogoro Akechi
(1979)
The Jeweled Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
(1979)
The Beauty of the Big Clock Edogawa Ranpo's "Ghost Tower"
as Kogoro Akechi
(1978)
(1978)
The Beauty in the Bathroom
as Kogoro Akechi
(1978)
White Mermaid Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
(1978)
Fairy Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
(1978)
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
as Kogoro Akechi
(1978)
(1977)
The Faceless Man
as Kogoro Akechi
(1972)
(1972)
Eight Men to Kill
as Azami Yajuro
(1972)
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as Ryukichi
(1972)
(1971)
(1971)
(1971)
(1970)
(1969)
(1969)
25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
as Amachi
(1968)
(1967)
(1967)
Shroud of Snow
as Guntaro
(1967)
(1967)
Classmates
as Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya
(1967)
(1967)
The Silent Gun
as Junta Kimura
(1967)
(1966)
Zatoichi's Vengeance
as Genpachiro Kurobe
(1966)
(1966)
Yakuza Hooligans
as Sugiyama
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
(1965)
Sword of the Beast
as Vice-Counselor
(1965)
(1965)
Trigger Happy Romeo
as Junta Kimura
(1965)
(1965)
The Third Contest
as Genba
(1965)
The Dedicated Gunman
as Junta Kimura
(1965)
A Lonely Gamble
as Teijiro Chigusa
(1964)
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Seiji Nawate
(1964)
(1964)
(1963)
(1963)
Shinsengumi Chronicles
as Toshizo Hijikata
(1963)
The Third Shadow Warrior
as Sadamitsu Miki
(1963)
(1962)
The Tale of Zatoichi
as Miki Hirate
(1962)
Destiny's Son
as Sôshi Tada
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
The Lightning Sword
as Higashinosuke Yamagata
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1961)
(1961)
(1961)
Fire Line
as Kuroiwa
(1961)
Counterattack of a Queen Bee
as Muteppô no Masa
(1961)
(1960)
Jigoku
as Shirô Shimizu
(1960)
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
as Lt. Commander Fushimi
(1960)
(1960)
Yellow Line
as Kazuhiro Moroki
(1960)
皇室と戦争とわが民族
as Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
Black Line
as Koji Machida
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(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)
(1959)
The Lady Vampire
as Nobutaka Takenaka
(1959)
Elegy of a Geisha
as Hayase Chikara
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
Queen of the China Sea
as First Lieutenant Yokoyama
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Queen Bee
as Mazaki
(1958)
Queen Bee's Anger
as Noboru Gôda
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
as Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1956)
(1956)
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
as Yûzô Yamauchi
(1956)
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Assistant Osugi
(1956)
(1956)
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties
as Asaka Keinosuke
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1954)
(1953)
Crew
(1984)
Hizoban Higasa no onna
Director, Screenplay