Shigeru Amachi

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1931-03-04

Deathday 1985-07-27 (54 years old)

Place of Birth Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Jun Utsugi, Jun Uzuki, 宇寿木純

Shigeru Amachi

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.

Known For

Actor

1980
Port Arthur

as Kentaro Kaneko

1979
Demonic Beauty

as 明智小五郎

1979
The 47 Ronins of Ako

as Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami

1978
1977
The Faceless Man

as Kogoro Akechi

1977
1972
Eight Men to Kill

as Azami Yajuro

1967
The Silent Gun

as Junta Kimura

1967
Classmates

as Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya

1967
Shroud of Snow

as Guntaro

1966
Yakuza Hooligans

as Sugiyama

1966
Zatoichi's Vengeance

as Genpachiro Kurobe

1965
Trigger Happy Romeo

as Junta Kimura

1965
Sword of the Beast

as Vice-Counselor

1965
A Lonely Gamble

as Teijiro Chigusa

1965
1965
The Dedicated Gunman

as Junta Kimura

1964
Two Lives, Two Yakuza

as Seiji Nawate

1963
The Third Shadow Warrior

as Sadamitsu Miki

1963
Shinsengumi Chronicles

as Toshizo Hijikata

1962
The Lightning Sword

as Higashinosuke Yamagata

1962
Destiny's Son

as Sôshi Tada

1962
The Tale of Zatoichi

as Miki Hirate

1961
Fire Line

as Kuroiwa

1961
Counterattack of a Queen Bee

as Muteppô no Masa

1960
Jigoku

as Shirô Shimizu

1960
皇室と戦争とわが民族

as Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki

1960
Yellow Line

as Kazuhiro Moroki

1960
1960
Black Line

as Koji Machida

1959
Elegy of a Geisha

as Hayase Chikara

1959
The Ghost of Yotsuya

as Iemon Tamiya

1959
Queen of the China Sea

as First Lieutenant Yokoyama

1959
The Lady Vampire

as Nobutaka Takenaka

1958
Queen Bee's Anger

as Noboru Gôda

1958
Queen Bee

as Mazaki

1957
1956
Revenge of the Pearl Queen

as Yûzô Yamauchi

Director

1984

Writer

1984