Kazuo Hasegawa
Birthday: 1908-02-27
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Biography: Kazuo Hasegawa was a Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in over 300 films from 1927 to 1963. Born to a sake brewing family in Kyoto, he first appeared on stage at age five in a theater run by his family as a side business. In 1918, he became a student of Nakamura Ganjirō I and performed kabuki in the Kansai region. He joined the Shochiku studio in 1927 and made his film debut in Chigo no kenpō under the name Chōjirō Hayashi. His good looks and graceful fighting style made him a major jidaigeki star, and he appeared in more than 120 films for Shochiku in 11 years, with the best works being directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. He moved to the Toho studio in 1937. On 11 November 1937, however, he was attacked by ruffians and his face slashed with razor blades. According to the historian Daisuke Miyao, "Even though there was no clear evidence, it was widely assumed that this violent incident was Shochiku's retaliatory measure against Hayashi's so-called betrayal." He recovered and changed his stage name to his real name, Kazuo Hasegawa. Hasegawa appeared in many successful films for Toho, including several "national-policy pictures with Chinese settings," such as Song of the White Orchid (1939) and China Night (1940), with co-star Ri Koran. He moved to Daiei Film in 1950 and continued appearing in the popular Zenigata Heiji series. He also appeared in many classic films including Kozaburo Yoshimura's The Tale of Genji (1951), Kinugasa's Gate of Hell (1953), and Kenji Mizoguchi's The Crucified Lovers (1954). He was appointed to Daiei's board of directors in 1957. To celebrate his 300th film, Hasegawa appeared in a new version of Yukinojō henge (known abroad as An Actor's Revenge) in 1963, directed by Kon Ichikawa. He left Daiei that year and continued to appear on stage and television, including starring in the second NHK Taiga drama Akō Rōshi in 1964. He also directed the Takarazuka Revue version of The Rose of Versailles in 1974.
Movies
Genpei the Carp
The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The s...
View Movie
Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
View Movie
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....
View Movie
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....
View Movie
An Actor's Revenge
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
View Movie
Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
View Movie
Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
View Movie
The Great Wall
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his seri...
View Movie
Demon Thistle
The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japane...
View Movie
The Ghost of Yotsuya
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance...
View Movie
Tôribêyama shinjû
The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto....
View Movie
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record ...
View Movie
Benten kozo
First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and giv...
View Movie
Tojuro's Love
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku...
View Movie
The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder ...
View Movie
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other....
View Movie
Reimei izen
In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a ...
View Movie
Jirocho Fuji
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i...
View Movie
治郎吉格子
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man w...
View Movie
治郎吉格子
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man w...
View Movie
An Actor's Revenge
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as ...
View Movie
The Woman and the Pirate
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there wa...
View Movie
An Heir's Place
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
View Movie
Blizzard Ronin
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane....
View Movie
The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
View Movie
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa...
View Movie
China Night
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan re...
View Movie
Shogun's Holiday
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...
View Movie
A Samurai's Love
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki....
View Movie
The Demon of Mount Oe
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The y...
View Movie
The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
View Movie
Song of the White Orchid
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colon...
View Movie
I Believe I Am Being Followed
Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died...
View Movie
Kurotegumi Sukeroku
Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s...
View Movie
The Groom Talks in His Sleep
A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely...
View Movie
The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
View Movie
The Fighting Firemen
Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger...
View Movie
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...
View Movie
Nogitsune Sanji
A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji....
View Movie
The Way of Drama
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...
View Movie
Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
View Movie
The Snake Princess
When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the ...
View Movie
Ghosts Die at Dawn
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of win...
View Movie
Harbor of Life
Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as steve...
View Movie
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of mo...
View Movie
Ghosts Die at Dawn
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of win...
View Movie
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
View Movie
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari...
View Movie
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the...
View Movie
Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's...
View Movie
Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
View Movie
Tsukigata Hanpeita
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a c...
View Movie
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....
View Movie
The Man Who Waited
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
View Movie
My Elder Brother
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza w...
View Movie
Iemitsu and Hikoza
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal o...
View Movie
Oath on the Burning Sands
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful C...
View Movie
The Burning Sky
The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The f...
View Movie
The Two Musashis
During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...
View Movie
The Battle of Kawanakajima
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th...
View Movie
Scars of Honor
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in th...
View Movie
The Last Betrayal
A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him....
View Movie
Castle of Wind and Clouds
A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...
View Movie
Floating Vessel
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
View Movie
Dancers of Awa
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance ...
View Movie
The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the ...
View Movie
Dedication of the Great Buddha
The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents...
View Movie
Zangiku monogatari
Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese ...
View Movie
Kaitō Samimaro
A young samurai rescues his beloved from the clutches of a corrupt priest....
View Movie
勘太郎月夜唄
Kantaro, known as a rowdy boy in the town of Ina, attacked the local boss, Kaneoni's Arahira, all by...
View Movie
Chronicles of a Sea Country
Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka....
View Movie
Hinoki butai
The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community c...
View Movie
The Man from the Moon
O-Kiyo (Mitsuko Mito), who had escaped from her boss, Shoden, who controlled the Sensoji Temple dist...
View Movie
The Golden Demon
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma...
View Movie