Shigeru Amachi
Born: 1931-03-04 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1985-07-27
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1985
- The Beauty of the Black Pearl as Kogoro Akechi
- Beauty with a Mysterious Scar as Kogoro Akechi
- The Psychological Test as Akechi Kogorō
1984
- The Story of a Man Among Men
- Beauty in the Flames as Kogoro Akechi
- Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
- Beauty of the Forbidden Fruit as Kogoro Akechi
- Hizoban Higasa no onna ... (Director)
- Midnight Demon
1983
- Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
- Empress
- Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
- Samurai Secret Agent
- Angel and Devil Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- White skinned beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- Kanei Command Performance
- The Beast and the Magic Sword as Kian
1982
- The Beauty of Heaven and Hell as Kogoro Akechi
- Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
- The Edo Fortune-Teller
- The Beauty at the Dressing Table as Kogoro Akechi
- Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake as Kogoro Akechi
1981
- Beauty with White Breasts as Kogoro Akechi
- Beauty in the Mirror Hell as Kogoro Akechi
- Beauty of the Five-Storied Pagoda
1980
- Port Arthur as Kentaro Kaneko
- Enchanted Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- Beauty of the Land of Cherry Blossoms as Kogoro Akechi
- Emmanuel's Beauty
1979
- The 47 Ronins of Ako as Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami
- Yasei no Shōmei
- Dead Angle
- Red Scorpion Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- Devilish Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- The Jeweled Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- The Beauty of the Big Clock as Kogoro Akechi
- 江戸の牙
1978
- Fairy Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- The Beauty in the Bathroom as Kogoro Akechi
- The Beauty of the Black Narcissus as Kogoro Akechi
- White Mermaid Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- Beauty on Death Row
- Headless Island
1977
- Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu as Kogoro Akechi
- The Faceless Man as Kogoro Akechi
1973
- Hijo no License as 会田健
1972
- Professional Killers
- Modern Lady Gambler
- The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
- Eight Men to Kill as Azami Yajuro
- A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell as Ryukichi
1971
1970
1969
1967
- Classmates as Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya
- Showdown of Men 2
- Shroud of Snow as Guntaro
- The Gambler's Law
- The Silent Gun as Junta Kimura
- Quick-Draw Dog
- Tokyo Gambler
1966
- Zatoichi's Vengeance as Genpachiro Kurobe
- Showdown of Men
- The Pretty Jade
- Return of Gun Dog
- Black Curtain
- Yakuza Hooligans as Sugiyama
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy as Aizen
1965
- Sword of the Beast as Vice-Counselor
- The Boss
- Ankoku gai jingi
- Trigger Happy Romeo as Junta Kimura
- A Lonely Gamble as Teijiro Chigusa
- The Dedicated Gunman as Junta Kimura
- The Third Contest as Genba
1964
- Homeless Dog
- Two Lives, Two Yakuza as Seiji Nawate
- Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
1963
- Shinsengumi Chronicles as Toshizo Hijikata
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
- The Third Shadow Warrior as Sadamitsu Miki
- Assassins for sale
1962
- The Tale of Zatoichi as Miki Hirate
- Destiny's Son as Sôshi Tada
- The Demon of Sendai's Castle
- Ken ni kakeru
- Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
- Yôki na tono-sama
- The Lightning Sword as Higashinosuke Yamagata
- Kuro to aka no hanabira
- The Tragedy of a Young Warrior
- I am the Judge
1961
- Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
- Fire Line as Kuroiwa
- Counterattack of a Queen Bee as Muteppô no Masa
- Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
- The Horizon Glitters
1960
- Jigoku as Shirô Shimizu
- Yellow Line as Kazuhiro Moroki
- Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu as Lt. Commander Fushimi
- Roar of the Bullets
- Beyond the Hills
- Kôshitsu to sensô to waga minzoku as Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki
- Women of Whirlpool Island
- Black Line as Koji Machida
- The Rambler Rides Again
- トップ屋を殺せ
- 弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
- Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
- Young Girl Wife - Terrible Sixteen Abilities
1959
- The Ghost of Yotsuya as Iemon Tamiya
- The Lady Vampire as Nobutaka Takenaka
- The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal as First Officer of the Yamato
- Elegy of a Geisha as Hayase Chikara
- Quiet Dawn in the Front
- Queen of the China Sea as First Lieutenant Yokoyama
- No Police
- The Challenge of the Female Spy Akatsuki
1958
- Rusty Knife
- Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
- Ghost in the Regiment as Lieutenant Namishima
- Queen Bee's Anger as Noboru Gôda
- Holiday in Japan
- Secret White Line Zone
- 黄金奉行
- Star Poisoning Case
- 稲妻奉行
- Poison Fang Oran
- Queen Bee as Mazaki
- Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo
1957
1956
- Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
- The Prosecutor and His Sister
- Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers as Assistant Osugi
- Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties as Asaka Keinosuke
- Revenge of the Pearl Queen as Yûzô Yamauchi