Shigeru Amachi
50Movies
8.0 Best Rating
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.
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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Beauty with a mysterious scar | Kogoro Akechi | Flop | |
| 1984 | The Story of a Man Among Men | - | Average | |
| 1983 | The Beast and the Magic Sword | Kian | Flop | |
| 1983 | Empress | - | Flop | |
| 1983 | Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun | - | Super Hit | |
| 1982 | The Beauty of Heaven and Hell | Kogoro Akechi | Average | |
| 1980 | Enchanted Beauty | Kogoro Akechi | Average | |
| 1980 | Port Arthur | Kentaro Kaneko | Hit | |
| 1979 | Dead Angle | - | Hit | |
| 1972 | Eight Men to Kill | Azami Yajuro | Hit | |
| 1972 | Modern Lady Gambler | - | Hit | |
| 1972 | A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell | Ryukichi | Hit | |
| 1971 | Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack | Hitman | Flop | |
| 1968 | Blackmail Is My Life | - | Average | |
| 1967 | The Silent Gun | Junta Kimura | Hit | |
| 1967 | Classmates | Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya | Hit | |
| 1967 | Quick-Draw Dog | - | Average | |
| 1967 | Shroud of Snow | Guntaro | Hit | |
| 1966 | Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy | Aizen | Average | |
| 1966 | Yakuza Hooligans | Sugiyama | Hit | |
| 1966 | Zatoichi's Vengeance | Genpachiro Kurobe | Hit | |
| 1966 | Return of Gun Dog | - | Flop | |
| 1965 | Trigger Happy Romeo | Junta Kimura | Average | |
| 1965 | Sword of the Beast | Vice-Counselor | Hit | |
| 1965 | A Lonely Gamble | Teijiro Chigusa | Flop | |
| 1965 | The Third Contest | Genba | Hit | |
| 1965 | The Dedicated Gunman | Junta Kimura | Hit | |
| 1964 | Homeless Dog | - | Hit | |
| 1963 | Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance | - | Hit | |
| 1963 | The Third Shadow Warrior | Sadamitsu Miki | Hit | |
| 1963 | Assassins for sale | - | Hit | |
| 1963 | Shinsengumi Chronicles | Toshizo Hijikata | Hit | |
| 1962 | The Lightning Sword | Higashinosuke Yamagata | Super Hit | |
| 1962 | Destiny's Son | Sôshi Tada | Hit | |
| 1962 | The Tale of Zatoichi | Miki Hirate | Hit | |
| 1961 | Fire Line | Kuroiwa | Flop | |
| 1960 | Jigoku | Shirô Shimizu | Average | |
| 1960 | Yellow Line | Kazuhiro Moroki | Hit | |
| 1960 | Women of Whirlpool Island | - | Average | |
| 1960 | Black Line | Koji Machida | Flop | |
| 1959 | The Ghost of Yotsuya | Iemon Tamiya | Hit | |
| 1959 | The Lady Vampire | Nobutaka Takenaka | Flop | |
| 1958 | Queen Bee's Anger | Noboru Gôda | Flop | |
| 1958 | Secret White Line Zone | - | Flop | |
| 1958 | Rusty Knife | - | Average | |
| 1957 | The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty | Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi | Super Hit | |
| 1957 | Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo | - | Super Hit | |
| 1956 | Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets | - | Flop | |
| 1956 | Revenge of the Pearl Queen | Yûzô Yamauchi | Average | |
| 1955 | Twilight Saloon | - | Super Hit |