Hisaya Morishige

Hisaya Morishige

Hisaya Morishige (森繁久彌, Morishige Hisaya, May 4, 1913 – November 10, 2009) was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He became famous in films first for comedy roles, appearing in series such as the "Company President" (Shacho) and "Station Front" (Ekimae) series, produced by Toho. He appeared in nearly 250 films, both contemporary and jidaigeki. He was also famous on stage playing Tevye in the Japanese version of Fiddler on the Roof. He also appeared in television series and specials, and was the first guest on the television talk show Tetsuko's Room in 1975. He was long-time head of the Japan Actors Union. Among many honors, Morishige received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 1991.

Known For: Acting

Born: Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1913-05-04

Died: 2009-11-10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Amakara chindōchū		0
2	1951	Koibito	Manager	54
3	1951	新遊侠伝		0
4	1951	新遊侠伝　遊侠往来		0
5	1951	Pirates		0
6	1951	Bengawan Solo		0
7	1951	Koi no rantō		0
8	1952	Lil's Return from Shanghai	Ichiro Okamura	70
9	1952	Third Class Executives	Personnel Chief	0
10	1952	Tokyo Sweetheart	Akazawa	78
11	1952	Asu wa Nichiyōbi		0
12	1953	Jirocho Begins His Roving Life		0
13	1953	親馬鹿花合戦		0
14	1953	Yasugorō shusse		0
15	1953	Mole Alley		0
16	1953	Her Captive Gamblers		0
17	1953	Bot-chan	Akashatsu	100
18	1953	Jirocho's Home-Coming		0
19	1953	Tokyo Profile	Mr. Maki	65
20	1953	Princess Finds Her Prince		0
21	1953	Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow		0
22	1953	Jirocho, the Hunted		0
23	1954	Last of the Wild Ones		0
24	1954	Mako Osorubeshi		0
25	1954	Shigemori Goes To Tokyo	Shigemori Shigeo	0
26	1955	Policeman's Diary	Patrolman Yoshii	65
27	1955	Chutaro of Banba		50
28	1955	Nonki saiban		0
29	1955	(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home	Denkichi Yoshida	0
30	1955	Morishige no demakase shinshi		0
31	1955	Marital Relations	Ryukichi	52
32	1955	Tales of Ginza	Narrator (voice)	68
33	1955	Such is Life	Danpei	0
34	1956	The President's Boss	Zennosuke Tashiro	0
35	1956	Morishige's Honeymoon		0
36	1956	Called to the Stand		0
37	1956	The President Talks Bank	Zennosuke Tashiro	0
38	1956	Morishige, where are you going?	Shigetaro Mori	0
39	1956	Three Generations of Company Presidents		0
40	1956	Jacks and Jills	Morishita	0
41	1956	Shozo, a Cat and Two Women	Shozo	67
42	1957	Talkative Company President	Osamu Saotome	0
43	1957	Snow Country	Imura	67
44	1957	Hadaka no Machi		0
45	1957	The Beauty Expert		0
46	1957	The Unbalanced Wheel		0
47	1958	Assistant President		0
48	1958	Makeraremasen katsumadewa		0
49	1958	The Third President	Keitaro Asakawa	0
50	1958	The Shop Curtain		0
51	1958	Yoku		0
52	1958	The Hotelman's Holiday	Jihei Ikuno	0
53	1958	The Child Writers	Mr. Kawahara	0
54	1958	The Tale of the White Serpent	Xu-Xian / Fa-Hai / Panda / Dragon King / Catfish King	61
55	1958	The Tale of the White Serpent	Narrator (voice)	61
56	1958	The Undefeated Woman		0
57	1958	The Spell of the Hidden Gold	Munazuru	60
58	1958	Theater of Life		0
59	1959	Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period		0
60	1959	Temptation on Glamour Island	Navy Captain Prince Tamehisa	60
61	1959	Flower Shop Curtain		0
62	1959	Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents		0
63	1959	New Third-Class Executive	Shirō Sawamura	0
64	1959	The Adventures of Kantaro	Kantaro	0
65	1960	New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking	Shirō Sawamura (Executive Director)	0
66	1960	New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller	Shiro Sawamura	0
67	1960	New Third Class Executive: Husband Education	Shirō Sawamura	0
68	1960	Life of a Country Doctor		0
69	1960	This Greedy Old Skin	Hikohachi Mukoyama	0
70	1960	The Angry Sea	Hikoichi	0
71	1960	The Masterless 47	Yoshio Oishi	0
72	1960	The Wayside Pebble	Shogo Aikawa	0
73	1961	Aces Wild		0
74	1961	The Preacher of Love		0
75	1961	The Masterless 47 – Part II		0
76	1961	Playboy President	Misawa Einosuke	0
77	1961	Playboy President: Part II	Eisuke Misawa	0
78	1961	An Urban Affair	Kintaro Togura	0
79	1961	Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō		0
80	1961	Snow in the South Seas		0
81	1961	The End of Summer	Isomura Eiichirou	75
82	1961	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox	Kintaro	0
83	1962	Shimizu Port Salaryman		0
84	1962	A Country Boss	Takeo Aihara	0
85	1962	Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II		0
86	1962	Ika naru hoshi no moto ni		0
87	1962	Three Gentlemen from Tokyo		0
88	1962	Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong		58
89	1962	This Madding Crowd	Professor	0
90	1962	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen		0
91	1962	Mount Hakone		0
92	1962	Shin kitsune to tanuki		0
93	1962	Chûshingura		73
94	1962	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant	Toku	0
95	1963	Travel Stories of a Company President		0
96	1963	Yushu Heiya	Katayuki	0
97	1963	Travel Stories of a Company President Part II	Heitarō Dōmoto (President)	0
98	1963	Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai	Kyusaku Goi	0
99	1963	Company President Travels Abroad	Kazama Keinosuke (President)	0
100	1963	Company President Travels Abroad Part II	Keinosuke Kazama (Company President)	0
101	1963	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot		0
102	1963	The Maid Story		0
103	1964	Hail the 3 Gents		0
104	1964	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Landlady		0
105	1964	3 Gents in the Snow Country		0
106	1964	Hot Spring Ghost		0
107	1964	The Naked Executive	Kôshirô Hidaka	0
108	1964	Could I But Live		0
109	1965	Five Gents' Trick Book	Kutaro Iwato	0
110	1965	President's Ninja Trick Book Part II	Kyutarō Iwato (President, Iwato Construction)	0
111	1965	喜劇各駅停車		0
112	1965	A Comedy in Front of the Station: University	Morita Tokunosuke	0
113	1966	A Company President's Life Story	Kurihara Yaichirō (Sunrise President)	0
114	1966	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten		0
115	1966	Five Gents on the Spot	Yaichiro Kurihara	0
116	1966	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga	Tokunosuke Morita	0
117	1967	Discover Japan with the 5 Gents	Keitarō Shōji (President, Shōji Tourism)	0
118	1967	Five Gents Prefer Geisha	Keitarō Shōji (President, Shōji Tourism)	0
119	1967	A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station		0
120	1968	Five Gents and Karate Grandpa	Keitaro Takayama (Takayama Trading President)	0
121	1968	Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant	Keitarō Takayama	0
122	1969	5 Gents Fly to Kyushu	Chōtarō Ōtaka (President, Marubō Cosmetics)	0
123	1969	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier		0
124	1969	5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II	Ōtaka Chōtarō	0
125	1969	Travels of Lord Mito	Kômon Mito	0
126	1970	Five Gents Fly to Taiwan	Saburo Amino	0
127	1970	Five Gents and a Kuniang	Amino Santarō	0
128	1971	Tora-san's Shattered Romance	Senzo	72
129	1971	Follow the Girls		0
130	1971	Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu	Kanazawa	0
131	1972	Zatoichi at Large	Constable Tobei	65
132	1972	Kigeki: Onna uridashimasu		0
133	1972	Theater Of Life		100
134	1972	Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori	Kanazawa	0
135	1973	The Twilight Years	Shigezo Tachibana	60
136	1974	Machi no Hi	Kurita	0
137	1976	Two Iida	Riichiro Sugawa	0
138	1977	Sugata Sanshiro	Osho	0
139	1978	The Incident		63
140	1979	The Rivals		0
141	1980	Port Arthur	Hirobumi Ito	73
142	1981	The Imperial Navy	Naoki Hongo	63
143	1982	The Longest Tunnel	Gensuke Kishida	0
144	1983	Fiddler on the Roof	Tevye	0
145	1983	The Yoshida School	Shigeru Yoshida	0
146	1984	Sayonara Jupiter	Earth Federation President	53
147	1984	Kukai		90
148	1986	Surgical Designs in Flames		0
149	1986	The White Tiger Battalion		0
150	1987	Tabaruzaka		0
151	1988	Goryokaku		0
152	1990	Sea of Wandering		0
153	1991	遊の人‐天下の御意見番大久保彦左衛門‐		0
154	1994	47 Ronin	Hyobu Chisaka	75
155	1997	Princess Mononoke	Chief of Affairs (voice)	83
156	2001	Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves	Professor Torino (voice)	72
157	2004	Shinibana	Rokusaburō Aoki	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	おれの義姉さん		0
2	1975	Genroku Taiheiki	Mitsukuni Tokugawa	0
3	1981	Sekigahara	Ieyasu Tokugawa	70
4	1986	Byakkotai	Inoue Okazumi	0

Hisaya Morishige

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Television