Shigeru Amachi

Shigeru Amachi

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.

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Movies starring Shigeru Amachi (131)

The Beauty of the Black Pearl (1985)

Kogoro Akechi

Beauty with a Mysterious Scar (1985)

Kogoro Akechi

The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
Beauty in the Flames (1984)

Kogoro Akechi

Midnight Demon (1984)
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4 (1984)
Beauty of the Forbidden Fruit (1984)

Kogoro Akechi

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3 (1983)
Samurai Secret Agent (1983)
The Beast and the Magic Sword (1983)

Kian

Kanei Command Performance (1983)
Empress (1983)
White skinned beauty (1983)

Kogoro Akechi

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun (1983)
Angel and Devil Beauty (1983)

Kogoro Akechi

Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake (1982)

Kogoro Akechi

The Edo Fortune-Teller (1982)
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records (1982)
The Beauty at the Dressing Table (1982)

Kogoro Akechi

The Beauty of Heaven and Hell (1982)

Kogoro Akechi

Beauty with White Breasts (1981)

Kogoro Akechi

Enchanted Beauty (1980)

Kogoro Akechi

Port Arthur (1980)

Kentaro Kaneko

Beauty of the Land of Cherry Blossoms (1980)

Kogoro Akechi

The Beauty of the Big Clock (1979)

Kogoro Akechi

Red Scorpion Beauty (1979)

Kogoro Akechi

Dead Angle (1979)
Devilish Beauty (1979)

Kogoro Akechi

The Jeweled Beauty (1979)

Kogoro Akechi

Fairy Beauty (1978)

Kogoro Akechi

The Beauty of the Black Narcissus (1978)

Kogoro Akechi

White Mermaid Beauty (1978)

Kogoro Akechi

Beauty on Death Row (1978)
The Beauty in the Bathroom (1978)

Kogoro Akechi

The Faceless Man (1977)

Kogoro Akechi

Eight Men to Kill (1972)

Azami Yajuro

Modern Lady Gambler (1972)
The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13 (1972)
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell (1972)

Ryukichi

Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack (1971)

Hitman

Easy Money (1970)
The Woman Gambler's Trump Card (1969)
Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
The Silent Gun (1967)

Junta Kimura

Classmates (1967)

Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya

Quick-Draw Dog (1967)
The Gambler's Law (1967)
Showdown of Men 2 (1967)
Tokyo Gambler (1967)
Shroud of Snow (1967)

Guntaro

Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy (1966)

Aizen

The Pretty Jade (1966)
Showdown of Men (1966)
Yakuza Hooligans (1966)

Sugiyama

Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

Genpachiro Kurobe

Return of Gun Dog (1966)
Black Curtain (1966)
Trigger Happy Romeo (1965)

Junta Kimura

Sword of the Beast (1965)

Vice-Counselor

Ankoku gai jingi (1965)
A Lonely Gamble (1965)

Teijiro Chigusa

The Third Contest (1965)

Genba

The Dedicated Gunman (1965)

Junta Kimura

The Boss (1965)
Two Lives, Two Yakuza (1964)

Seiji Nawate

Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery (1964)
Homeless Dog (1964)
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance (1963)

Nobutada

The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)

Sadamitsu Miki

Assassins for sale (1963)
Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963)

Toshizo Hijikata

Yôki na tono-sama (1962)
The Lightning Sword (1962)

Higashinosuke Yamagata

Ken ni kakeru (1962)
The Demon of Sendai's Castle (1962)
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven (1962)
The Tragedy of a Young Warrior (1962)
Destiny's Son (1962)

Sôshi Tada

The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

Miki Hirate

I am the Judge (1962)
Kuro to aka no hanabira (1962)
Fire Line (1961)

Kuroiwa

Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer (1961)
The Horizon Glitters (1961)
Ren'ai Zubari Kōza (1961)
Counterattack of a Queen Bee (1961)

Muteppô No Masa

Roar of the Bullets (1960)
The Rambler Rides Again (1960)
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu (1960)
Jigoku (1960)

Shirô Shimizu

Kôshitsu to sensô to waga minzoku (1960)

Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki

Yellow Line (1960)

Kazuhiro Moroki

Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu (1960)

Lt. Commander Fushimi

Women of Whirlpool Island (1960)
Beyond the Hills (1960)
Black Line (1960)

Koji Machida

Elegy of a Geisha (1959)

Hayase Chikara

Quiet Dawn in the Front (1959)
Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1959)

Iemon Tamiya

Queen of the China Sea (1959)

First Lieutenant Yokoyama

No Police (1959)
The Lady Vampire (1959)

Nobutaka Takenaka

The Challenge of the Female Spy Akatsuki (1959)
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)

First Officer Of The Yamato

Queen Bee's Anger (1958)

Noboru Gôda

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo (1958)
Poison Fang Oran (1958)
Secret White Line Zone (1958)
Ghost in the Regiment (1958)

Lieutenant Namishima

Holiday in Japan (1958)
Star Poisoning Case (1958)
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)
Rusty Knife (1958)
Queen Bee (1958)

Mazaki

Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals (1957)
Cordon at Dawn (1957)
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty (1957)

Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo (1957)
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties (1956)

Asaka Keinosuke

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers (1956)

Assistant Osugi

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets (1956)
Revenge of the Pearl Queen (1956)

Yûzô Yamauchi

The Prosecutor and His Sister (1956)
Morishige is a Fake Gentleman (1955)
Hanamazu (1955)
Twilight Saloon (1955)
Nonki saiban (1955)
Mysterious Dwarf (1955)
Carbine of Fear (1954)
Mole Alley (1953)

Movies Made by Shigeru Amachi (1)

Hizoban Higasa no onna (1984)

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