Shigeru Amachi
Birthday: 1931-03-04
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...
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A Lonely Gamble
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an hon...
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began...
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The Beast and the Magic Sword
His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf cu...
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The Tale of Zatoichi
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
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Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. ...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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The Tragedy of a Young Warrior
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained...
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Jigoku
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet...
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Shroud of Snow
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a re...
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Rusty Knife
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...
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Destiny's Son
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s...
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betra...
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Empress
A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his m...
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Easy Money
An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens....
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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Blackmail Is My Life
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by...
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The Edo Fortune-Teller
Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordp...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villa...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly buil...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he ...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave...
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Kanei Command Performance
During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or...
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Ankoku gai jingi
A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai...
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Revenge of the Pearl Queen
Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovel...
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Assassins for sale
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
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Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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Quick-Draw Dog
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth f...
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Return of Gun Dog
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu se...
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The Lady Vampire
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mo...
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Beauty with White Breasts
Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another! Bas...
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Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-leve...
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The Rambler Rides Again
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokk...
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Ghost in the Regiment
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason tha...
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The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotte...
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Fire Line
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemo...
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Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events...
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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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Yellow Line
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ...
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Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son...
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Carbine of Fear
Suspense film based on the "Carbine Gang Incident" that happened in June 1954 in Japan....
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Beyond the Hills
On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with ...
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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The s...
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Holiday in Japan
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....
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Yakuza Hooligans
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to jo...
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Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut....
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Elegy of a Geisha
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree"....
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The Horizon Glitters
5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds....
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the sout...
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Twilight Saloon
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in...
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Black Line
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line,...
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Nonki saiban
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...
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Mysterious Dwarf
The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around ...
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Mole Alley
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 1...
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Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra...
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The Silent Gun
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, ...
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The Faceless Man
Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his b...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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The Third Contest
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Conseque...
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The Boss
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous w...
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Queen of the China Sea
Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she e...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his i...
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Samurai Secret Agent
A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...
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The Lightning Sword
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect hi...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku"....
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怒号する巨弾
At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused a...
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Morishige is a Fake Gentleman
Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control....
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the Americ...
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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties
Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women...
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25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals....
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The Psychological Test
Famed detective Akechi Kogorō (Shigeru Amachi) investigates a stunningly beautiful woman wearing bla...
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Beauty in the Mirror Hell
A jeweler is killed by an exploding golf ball, the police pin a smuggling operation on the deceased ...
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Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery....
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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo
The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomiz...
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