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Shigeru Amachi

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: Acting

Born: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 1931-03-04

Died: 1985-07-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Mole Alley		0
2	1954	Carbine of Fear		0
3	1955	Mysterious Dwarf		0
4	1955	Nonki saiban		0
5	1955	Twilight Saloon		80
6	1955	花眞珠		0
7	1955	Morishige no demakase shinshi		0
8	1956	The Prosecutor and His Sister		0
9	1956	Revenge of the Pearl Queen	Yûzô Yamauchi	60
10	1956	Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets		50
11	1956	Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers	Assistant Osugi	0
12	1956	Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties	Asaka Keinosuke	0
13	1957	Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War		0
14	1957	剣聖　暁の三十六番斬り		0
15	1957	Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo		77
16	1957	The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty	Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi	80
17	1957	Cordon at Dawn		0
18	1957	Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals		0
19	1958	稲妻奉行		0
20	1958	Queen Bee	Mazaki	0
21	1958	Rusty Knife		59
22	1958	Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War		0
23	1958	Star Poisoning Case		0
24	1958	Holiday in Japan		0
25	1958	黄金奉行		0
26	1958	Ghost in the Regiment		0
27	1958	Secret White Line Zone		10
28	1958	Poison Fang Oran		0
29	1958	Queen Bee's Anger	Noboru Gôda	50
30	1959	The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal	First Officer of the Yamato	0
31	1959	Onna kanchō akatsuki no chōsen		0
32	1959	The Lady Vampire	Nobutaka Takenaka	49
33	1959	Mukeisatsu		0
34	1959	Queen of the China Sea	First Lieutenant Yokoyama	0
35	1959	The Ghost of Yotsuya	Iemon Tamiya	66
36	1959	Quiet Dawn in the Front		0
37	1959	Elegy of a Geisha	Hayase Chikara	0
38	1960	Black Line	Koji Machida	55
39	1960	Beyond the Hills		0
40	1960	Women of Whirlpool Island		61
41	1960	Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu	Lt. Commander Fushimi	0
42	1960	Yellow Line	Kazuhiro Moroki	70
43	1960	皇室と戦争とわが民族	Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki	0
44	1960	Jigoku	Shirô Shimizu	64
45	1960	Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu		0
46	1960	トップ屋を殺せ		0
47	1960	The Rambler Rides Again		0
48	1960	弥次喜多珍道中　中仙道の巻		0
49	1960	怒号する巨弾		0
50	1961	Counterattack of a Queen Bee	Muteppô no Masa	0
51	1961	Ren'ai Zubari Kōza		0
52	1961	The Horizon Glitters		0
53	1961	南郷次郎探偵帳　影なき殺人者		0
54	1961	Fire Line	Kuroiwa	37
55	1962	Kuro to aka no hanabira		0
56	1962	I am the Judge		0
57	1962	The Tale of Zatoichi	Miki Hirate	73
58	1962	Destiny's Son	Sôshi Tada	67
59	1962	The Tragedy of a Young Warrior		0
60	1962	Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven		0
61	1962	The Demon of Sendai's Castle		0
62	1962	Ken ni kakeru		0
63	1962	The Lightning Sword	Higashinosuke Yamagata	80
64	1962	Yôki na tono-sama		0
65	1963	Shinsengumi Chronicles	Toshizo Hijikata	65
66	1963	Assassins for sale		73
67	1963	The Third Shadow Warrior	Sadamitsu Miki	71
68	1963	Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance		68
69	1964	Homeless Dog		0
70	1964	駿河遊侠傳賭場荒し		0
71	1964	Two Lives, Two Yakuza	Seiji Nawate	0
72	1965	The Boss		0
73	1965	The Dedicated Gunman	Junta Kimura	0
74	1965	The Third Contest	Genba	70
75	1965	A Lonely Gamble	Teijiro Chigusa	0
76	1965	Ankoku gai jingi		0
77	1965	Sword of the Beast	Vice-Counselor	75
78	1965	Trigger Happy Romeo	Junta Kimura	0
79	1966	Black Curtain		0
80	1966	Return of Gun Dog		45
81	1966	Zatoichi's Vengeance	Genpachiro Kurobe	68
82	1966	Yakuza Hooligans	Sugiyama	70
83	1966	Showdown of Men		0
84	1966	The Pretty Jade		0
85	1966	Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy	Aizen	58
86	1967	Shroud of Snow	Guntaro	70
87	1967	Tokyo Gambler		0
88	1967	Showdown of Men 2		0
89	1967	The Gambler's Law		0
90	1967	Quick-Draw Dog		0
91	1967	Classmates	Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya	65
92	1967	The Silent Gun	Junta Kimura	0
93	1968	Blackmail Is My Life		64
94	1969	25 O'Clock in Shinjuku	Amachi	0
95	1969	The Woman Gambler's Trump Card		0
96	1970	Easy Money		0
97	1971	君は海を見たか		0
98	1971	My Life As Music		0
99	1971	Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack	Hitman	45
100	1972	A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell	Ryukichi	70
101	1972	The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13		0
102	1972	Modern Lady Gambler		70
103	1972	Eight Men to Kill	Azami Yajuro	70
104	1977	The Faceless Man	Kogoro Akechi	0
105	1978	The Beauty in the Bathroom		0
106	1978	江戸川乱歩「悪魔の紋章」より死刑台の美女		0
107	1978	江戸川乱歩「緑衣の鬼」より白い人魚の美女		0
108	1978	Headless Island		0
109	1978	The Beauty of the Black Narcissus	明智小五郎	0
110	1978	Fairy Beauty		0
111	1979	Gem Beauty		0
112	1979	Demonic Beauty	明智小五郎	0
113	1979	Dead Angle		70
114	1979	Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori		0
115	1979	大時計の美女江戸川乱歩の「幽霊塔」		0
116	1980	江戸川乱歩の黄金仮面ＩＩ／桜の国の美女		0
117	1980	Port Arthur	Kentaro Kaneko	73
118	1980	Edogawa Ranpo Series Fascinated Beauty		55
119	1981	Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"	Kogoro Akechi	0
120	1982	The Beauty of Heaven and Hell		60
121	1982	The Beauty of the Makeup Stage		0
122	1982	Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records		0
123	1982	The Edo Fortune-Teller		0
124	1982	Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake		0
125	1983	天使と悪魔の美女江戸川乱歩の「白昼夢」		0
126	1983	Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun		80
127	1983	White skinned beauty		0
128	1983	Empress		20
129	1983	Kanei Command Performance		0
130	1983	The Beast and the Magic Sword	Kian	53
131	1983	Samurai Secret Agent		0
132	1983	Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3		0
133	1984	禁断の実の美女		0
134	1984	Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4		0
135	1984	Midnight Demon		0
136	1984	Beauty in the Flame		0
137	1984	The Story of a Man Among Men		60
138	1985	Mysterious Scar Beauty		0
139	1985	The Beauty of Black Pearl		0
140	1985	The Psychological Test	Akechi Kogorō	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Professional Killers		73
2	1973	非情のライセンス	会田健	0
3	1977	Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu	Kogoro Akechi	0
4	1979	Yasei no Shōmei		0
5	1979	The 47 Ronins of Ako	Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami	0
6		白昼の死角(TV)		0