Shigeru Amachi

Personal Info

Birthday

March 4, 1931

Day of Death

1985-07-27

(54 years old)

Place of Birth

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

Jun Utsugi

Jun Uzuki

宇寿木純

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

The 47 Ronins of Ako

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

The Tale of Zatoichi

Jigoku

Two Lives, Two Yakuza

Port Arthur

非情のライセンス

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Filmography

1985
The Psychological Test
as Akechi Kogorō
1983
The Beast and the Magic Sword
as Kian
1981
Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"
as Kogoro Akechi
Mirror Hell Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
1980
Port Arthur
as Kentaro Kaneko
1979
Demonic Beauty
as 明智小五郎
1978
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
as 明智小五郎
1977
The Faceless Man
as Kogoro Akechi
1972
Eight Men to Kill
as Azami Yajuro
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as Ryukichi
1971
Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
as Hitman
1969
25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
as Amachi
1967
The Silent Gun
as Junta Kimura
Classmates
as Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya
Shroud of Snow
as Guntaro
1966
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
as Aizen
Yakuza Hooligans
as Sugiyama
Zatoichi's Vengeance
as Genpachiro Kurobe
1965
Trigger Happy Romeo
as Junta Kimura
Sword of the Beast
as Vice-Counselor
A Lonely Gamble
as Teijiro Chigusa
The Third Contest
as Genba
The Dedicated Gunman
as Junta Kimura
1964
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Seiji Nawate
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
as Sadamitsu Miki
Shinsengumi Chronicles
as Toshizo Hijikata
1962
The Lightning Sword
as Higashinosuke Yamagata
Destiny's Son
as Sôshi Tada
The Tale of Zatoichi
as Miki Hirate
1961
Fire Line
as Kuroiwa
Counterattack of a Queen Bee
as Muteppô no Masa
1960
Jigoku
as Shirô Shimizu
皇室と戦争とわが民族
as Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki
Yellow Line
as Kazuhiro Moroki
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
as Lt. Commander Fushimi
Black Line
as Koji Machida
1959
Elegy of a Geisha
as Hayase Chikara
The Ghost of Yotsuya
as Iemon Tamiya
Queen of the China Sea
as First Lieutenant Yokoyama
The Lady Vampire
as Nobutaka Takenaka
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
as First Officer of the Yamato
1958
Queen Bee's Anger
as Noboru Gôda
Queen Bee
as Mazaki
1957
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
as Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi
1956
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties
as Asaka Keinosuke
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Assistant Osugi
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
as Yûzô Yamauchi