Gen Shimizu
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Gen Shimizu.
Born: January 1, 1907
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Yakuza bayashi
Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
Lord Tadanao
The Storm
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Ultra Q
As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public. With allies and science aiding them on their journey, the trio must separate myth from history as they explore the greater mysteries of these occurrences: are they unrelated, or is this barrage somehow a portent of even worse things to come?
Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
The Militarists
Filmography
as Commander of Defense Forces
as Terasaki
as Ichioka
as Yoshizawa
as Division Commander Sakai
as Narikawa
as Torakichi Hamanaka
as 岡村
as Construction Company President
as Yasuda
as Ryuji Maisaka
as Kesho Yada
as Hasegawa Proving Ground Director
as Minister of Defense
as President
as Jûjirô Ishii
as 上松
as Chief Physician
as Kisaka
as Magotaro
as Managing Director Miura
as Boss of the Ohama Clan
as Nadahachi Ôkawagishi
as Washizu samurai
as Leopard
as Leopard
as Tamiya
as Inspector Todoroki
as Extraordinary detective
as Samurai Who Kicks Farmers
as Saburōsuke
as Military police officer
as Goro Kawamoto
as Suzuka
as Police Inspector Nakajima