Kenichi Hagiwara - Actor Profile

Kenichi Hagiwara

39Movies
8.0 Best Rating

Biography

Kenichi Hagiwara (born 26 July 1950 in Omiya, Saitama, Japan), also known as Sho-Ken, was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters and The Spiders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenichi Hagiwara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Top Rated Movies

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2014 Over Your Dead Body - ★ 6.0 Average
2009 Tajomaru: Avenging Blade - ★ 7.2 Hit
2003 Kyotaro Nishimura Special: Murder on the ‘Traveling Go’ around Japan. Inspector Totsugawa ★ 0.0 Flop
2001 Desert Moon Keechie's Boss ★ 5.8 Average
2001 Doubles - ★ 7.0 Hit
1996 The Terrorist’s Parasol - ★ 0.0 Flop
1994 Ghost Pub Sotaro ★ 5.0 Flop
1992 The Triple Cross Kanzaki ★ 6.6 Hit
1991 Traffic Jam Rinzo Fuji ★ 5.0 Flop
1990 1750 Days of Turbulence - ★ 8.0 Super Hit
1990 Betrayal Tomorrow - ★ 0.0 Flop
1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood Shiro Nonaka ★ 6.8 Hit
1989 Yakuza Ladies 3 Testuro Akamatsu ★ 6.0 Average
1987 The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma - ★ 6.0 Average
1987 Night Train Masahiko Tamura ★ 1.0 Flop
1986 Women Who Do Not Divorce - ★ 3.5 Flop
1986 South to the Horizon Ryuji Gondo ★ 7.0 Hit
1985 Love Letter Shoichi Takehara ★ 7.9 Super Hit
1985 The Seburi Story Hajime Kinoshita ★ 6.3 Average
1985 Capone Cries a Lot Kaiemon ★ 5.9 Average
1983 Modori River - ★ 3.5 Flop
1982 To Trap a Kidnapper - ★ 6.0 Average
1981 Summer of Demon lemon ★ 5.0 Flop
1980 Kagemusha Katsuyori Takeda ★ 7.8 Super Hit
1979 Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity - ★ 7.0 Hit
1977 Village of Eight Gravestones Tatsuya Terada ★ 6.7 Hit
1975 Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter - ★ 5.2 Flop
1975 Light of Africa Jun ★ 6.0 Average
1975 Two in the Amsterdam Rain Sakuda ★ 7.5 Super Hit
1974 Bitterness of Youth Kenichiro Eto ★ 6.3 Average
1973 Summer Days Across the River - ★ 0.0 Flop
1973 The Petrified Forest - ★ 6.0 Average
1973 The Wanderers Mokutaro ★ 5.4 Flop
1972 Beyond the Rainbow Jiro ★ 0.0 Flop
1972 The Rendezvous Akira Nakahara ★ 6.3 Average
1971 Price of Life Akio ★ 0.0 Flop
1971 Memai - ★ 0.0 Flop
1969 The Tempters: Smile After Tears Kenichi Yamakawa (Shôken) ★ 0.0 Flop
1967 Wet Encounter - ★ 0.0 Flop