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