Shigeru Amachi
Acting • Born 1931-03-04 – Died 1985-07-27
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
153 credits
Zatoichi's Vengeance
Movie • 1966
Genpachiro Kurobe
A Lonely Gamble
Movie • 1965
Teijiro Chigusa
Beauty with a mysterious scar
Movie • 1985
Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Movie • 1978
Kogoro Akechi
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
Movie • 1964
Seiji Nawate
Devilish Beauty
Movie • 1979
Kogoro Akechi
I am the Judge
Movie • 1962
The Beauty in the Bathroom
Movie • 1978
Kogoro Akechi
The Beast and the Magic Sword
Movie • 1983
Kian
Red Scorpion Beauty
Movie • 1979
Kogoro Akechi
The Tale of Zatoichi
Movie • 1962
Miki Hirate
Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
Movie • 1971
Hitman
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Movie • 1963
The Tragedy of a Young Warrior
Movie • 1962
Jigoku
Movie • 1960
Shirô Shimizu
Shroud of Snow
Movie • 1967
Guntaro
Rusty Knife
Movie • 1958
Destiny's Son
Movie • 1962
Sôshi Tada
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Movie • 1959
Iemon Tamiya
Empress
Movie • 1983
Easy Money
Movie • 1970
Shinsengumi Chronicles
Movie • 1963
Toshizo Hijikata
君は海を見たか
Movie • 1971
Beauty of the Forbidden Fruit
Movie • 1984
Kogoro Akechi
Blackmail Is My Life
Movie • 1968
The Edo Fortune-Teller
Movie • 1982
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
Movie • 1982
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
Movie • 1983
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Movie • 1984
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Movie • 1983
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Movie • 1966
Aizen
Kanei Command Performance
Movie • 1983
Beauty of the Land of Cherry Blossoms
Movie • 1980
Kogoro Akechi
Ankoku gai jingi
Movie • 1965
The Third Shadow Warrior
Movie • 1963
Sadamitsu Miki
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
Movie • 1956
Yûzô Yamauchi
White Mermaid Beauty
Movie • 1978
Kogoro Akechi
The Jeweled Beauty
Movie • 1979
Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty of the Big Clock
Movie • 1979
Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty at the Dressing Table
Movie • 1982
Kogoro Akechi
Angel and Devil Beauty
Movie • 1983
Kogoro Akechi
Beauty in the Flames
Movie • 1984
Kogoro Akechi
White skinned beauty
Movie • 1983
Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
Movie • 1982
Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty of the Black Pearl
Movie • 1985
Kogoro Akechi
Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake
Movie • 1982
Kogoro Akechi
Assassins for sale
Movie • 1963
Enchanted Beauty
Movie • 1980
Kogoro Akechi
Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
Movie • 1964
Eight Men to Kill
Movie • 1972
Azami Yajuro
The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Movie • 1962
Homeless Dog
Movie • 1964
Quick-Draw Dog
Movie • 1967
Return of Gun Dog
Movie • 1966
The Lady Vampire
Movie • 1959
Nobutaka Takenaka
Cordon at Dawn
Movie • 1957
Beauty with White Breasts
Movie • 1981
Kogoro Akechi
Black Curtain
Movie • 1966
Counterattack of a Queen Bee
Movie • 1961
Muteppô no Masa
Sword of the Beast
Movie • 1965
Vice-Counselor
The Rambler Rides Again
Movie • 1960
Queen Bee
Movie • 1958
Mazaki
Fairy Beauty
Movie • 1978
Kogoro Akechi
Beauty on Death Row
Movie • 1978
Secret White Line Zone
Movie • 1958
Ghost in the Regiment
Movie • 1958
Lieutenant Namishima
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
Movie • 1957
Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi
Queen Bee's Anger
Movie • 1958
Noboru Gôda
Kuro to aka no hanabira
Movie • 1962
Fire Line
Movie • 1961
Kuroiwa
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Movie • 1960
Dead Angle
Movie • 1979
剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
Movie • 1957
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Movie • 1957
Classmates
Movie • 1967
Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya
Yellow Line
Movie • 1960
Kazuhiro Moroki
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
Movie • 1957
Carbine of Fear
Movie • 1954
Beyond the Hills
Movie • 1960
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
Movie • 1960
Lt. Commander Fushimi
Holiday in Japan
Movie • 1958
弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
Movie • 1960
Star Poisoning Case
Movie • 1958
No Police
Movie • 1959
トップ屋を殺せ
Movie • 1960
Yakuza Hooligans
Movie • 1966
Sugiyama
Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
Movie • 1961
Quiet Dawn in the Front
Movie • 1959
稲妻奉行
Movie • 1958
Elegy of a Geisha
Movie • 1959
Hayase Chikara
Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
Movie • 1957
The Horizon Glitters
Movie • 1961
黄金奉行
Movie • 1958
Kôshitsu to sensô to waga minzoku
Movie • 1960
Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Movie • 1959
First Officer of the Yamato
Twilight Saloon
Movie • 1955
Black Line
Movie • 1960
Koji Machida
Poison Fang Oran
Movie • 1958
Midnight Demon
Movie • 1984
The Challenge of the Female Spy Akatsuki
Movie • 1959
Nonki saiban
Movie • 1955
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
Movie • 1972
Ryukichi
Mysterious Dwarf
Movie • 1955
Women of Whirlpool Island
Movie • 1960
The Gambler's Law
Movie • 1967
Mole Alley
Movie • 1953
Modern Lady Gambler
Movie • 1972
The Silent Gun
Movie • 1967
Junta Kimura
The Faceless Man
Movie • 1977
Kogoro Akechi
The Story of a Man Among Men
Movie • 1984
Showdown of Men 2
Movie • 1967
The Third Contest
Movie • 1965
Genba
The Boss
Movie • 1965
Queen of the China Sea
Movie • 1959
First Lieutenant Yokoyama
The Dedicated Gunman
Movie • 1965
Junta Kimura
Trigger Happy Romeo
Movie • 1965
Junta Kimura
Port Arthur
Movie • 1980
Kentaro Kaneko
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Movie • 1956
Assistant Osugi
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
Movie • 1958
Samurai Secret Agent
Movie • 1983
The Lightning Sword
Movie • 1962
Higashinosuke Yamagata
Showdown of Men
Movie • 1966
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Movie • 1962
Ken ni kakeru
Movie • 1962
Yôki na tono-sama
Movie • 1962
The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Movie • 1972
花眞珠
Movie • 1955
The Prosecutor and His Sister
Movie • 1956
Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
Movie • 1961
Roar of the Bullets
Movie • 1960
Morishige is a Fake Gentleman
Movie • 1955
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Movie • 1956
The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
Movie • 1969
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties
Movie • 1956
Asaka Keinosuke
The Pretty Jade
Movie • 1966
Tokyo Gambler
Movie • 1967
Headless Island
Movie • 1978
25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
Movie • 1969
Amachi
My Life As Music
Movie • 1971
The Psychological Test
Movie • 1985
Akechi Kogorō
Beauty in the Mirror Hell
Movie • 1981
Kogoro Akechi
Emmanuel's Beauty
Movie • 1980
Beauty of the Five-Storied Pagoda
Movie • 1981
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
Movie • 1969
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo
Movie • 1958
Professional Killers
TV • 1972
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
TV • 1977
Kogoro Akechi
The 47 Ronins of Ako
TV • 1979
Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami
Yasei no Shōmei
TV • 1979
Hijo no License
TV • 1973
会田健
白昼の死角(TV)
TV
Star of the Night
TV • 1968
江戸の牙
TV • 1979