Raizō Ichikawa
Born: 1931-08-29 in Kyoto, Japan
Died: 1969-07-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ichikawa Raizō VIII (born 29 August 1931 in Kyoto, Japan, died 17 July 1969 in Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese film and kabuki actor. Died of rectal cancer. He was born as Yoshiya Ōta in Kyoto on August 29, 1931. Ichikawa Raizō appeared mostly in period dramas (jidaigeki). He is best known for the Sleepy Eyes of Death (Nemuri Kyoshiro) series, Ninja (Shinobi no Mono) series and Nakano Spy School (Rikugun Nakano Gakkō) series (based on the Nakano School). Raizō worked many times with director Kenji Misumi. Their collaborations include The Sword (Ken) (from a book by Yukio Mishima) and Destiny's Son (Kiru). Other great works include An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo henge). Description above from the Wikipedia article Raizō Ichikawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1969
- Sworn Brothers as Jokichi Sakurada
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie as Nemuri Kyoshiro
1968
- Lone Wolf Isazo as Isazo
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- The Night before Pearl Harbor as Jiro Shiina
1967
- Secret Assignment as Jiro Shiina
- A Killer's Key as Nitta
- The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka as Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka
- Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Jiro Shiina
- A Certain Killer as Shiozawa
- Young Boss, Fugitive
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
- Exterminate the Young Boss!
1966
- The Betrayal as Kobuse Takuma
- Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies as Kojiro Kasumi
- The School of Spies as Jiro Shiina
- Assignment Cloud as Jiro Shiina
- Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
- Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back as Saizo Kumogakure
- The Young Boss and the Navy Spirit
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Young Boss: Overcoming Adversity
1965
- Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy as Saizo Kumogakure
- Bloody Shuriken as Ibuki
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Young Boss as Takeshi Nanjo
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel
- Sword Devil as Hanpei
- Young Boss: Prison Release as Takeshi Nanjo
- New Tengu from Mount Kurama
1964
- Ken as Jiro Kokubun
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege as Saizo Kirigakure
- Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo as Kirigakure Saizo
- On the Road Forever as Ipponmatsu
- The Man Disappears Yesterday
- The Gambling Samurai
1963
- An Actor's Revenge as Hirutaro
- Shinsengumi Chronicles as Yamasaki Susumu
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Goemon Ishikawa
- Cut the Shadow
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade as Nemuri Kyoshiro
- The Third Shadow Warrior as Kyonosuke Ninomiya / Yasutaka Ikemoto
- Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection as Goemon Ishikawa
- A Samurai Never Tells a Lie as Harima Aoyama
- The Confusing Journey of Jirocho
- Bronze Magician as монах Докё
1962
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Ishikawa Goemon
- The Great Wall as Ching Ko
- The Fencing Master as Shojiro Sawada
- The Broken Commandment as Ushimatsu Segawa
- Yôki na tono-sama
- The Actress and the Three Rascals
- Destiny's Son as Takakura Shingo
- Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
- Ken ni kakeru
- Seven Miles to Nakayama as Masakichi
- Her Hidden Past as Mondo Hayase
- Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
- 170 Leagues to Edo
1961
- Buddha as Kunala
- Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter as Ryûnosuke Tsukue
- The Gambler's Code as Kutsukake Tokijirô
- A Lustful Man as Yonosuke
- Vagabonds from Badgerville
- Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo as Suke-san
- Flowers of Chivalry
- Tabiwa Oiroke
- The Radiant Prince as Hikaru Genji
- Song of Sado
- The Phantom Samurai
- Otemoyan
- Nuregami botan
- Koina no Ginpei
1960
- Satan's Sword as Ryunosuke Tsukue
- Bonchi as Kikuji
- Satan's Sword: The Dragon God as Tsukue Ryunosuke
- The Demon of Mount Oe as Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu / Minamoto-no-Raikô
- Anchin and Kiyohime as Anchin
- Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
- The Song Lantern
- Mission Accomplished
- Yûrei koban
- Bara daimyo
- Lord Tadanao
- The Two Musashis
- Scarred Yosaburo
1959
- Samurai Vendetta as Tenge Tanzen
- Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
- Enchanted Princess as Tanukichiro
- Peony on the Skin
- Stop the Old Fox as Shinosuke Shimada
- The Princess Says No
- The Lord and the Gambler
- Jirocho Fuji as Kira no Nikichi
- Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
- Yutaro's Secret Story
- A Thousand Flying Cranes as Hanjirô
- Ojo-kichiza
- The Gaijin
- Hebihime sama
1958
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Takuminokami Asano
- Conflagration as Goichi Mizoguchi
- Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion as Hôjô Tokimune
- Megitsune Buro
- Hanatarō Jumon
- The Swishing Sword as Shinpachiro Nasu
- The Gay Masquerade as Benten kozo Kikunosuke
- Ambush at Iga Pass
- The Magnificent Five
- Princess Tsuki
- Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
- Bakeneko Goyōda
- Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
- The 7th Secret Agent to Edo
- Nuregami kenpo as Gennosuke Matsudaira
1957
- An Osaka Story as Keizaburo
- Fighting Letter for 29 People
- Secret of Naruto
- Inazuma Kaidō
- Daiei Studio is Bustling
- Mangorō Tengu as Tokugawa Mangorō
- Floating Vessel
- Yataro’s Travel Hat
- Demonfire Palanquin
- Love of the Princess as Arisugawa
- Freelance Samurai as Momotaro / Shinnosuke Wakagi
1956
- Tsukigata Hanpeita as Tatsuma Hayase
- Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
- Migratory Birds of the Flowers
- Matashirō Fighting Journey
- Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan as Hyosuke Yagyu
- Fighting Fire Fighter
- Fighting Birds
- Flowery Hood
- Asataro the Crow
- Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita
- Flowery Hood 2
- Gonpachi as Gonpachirô Shiga
- Flowery Brothers