Hideji Ōtaki
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 6, 1925
Place of Birth: Niigata, Japan
Known For
A School Behind Bars
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are all prisoners ranging in age from 20-70. The students are carefully selected after taking an entrance exam and being selected by the school's admission board.
Special Crime Investigation Front
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Golden Bowl
Focus, concentration, proper posture and good release are the hallmarks of a good bowler. Welcome to Golden Bowl bowling alley. A bit rundown and small but no worse for wear, the Golden Bowl is stockbroker Shu Akutagawa's favorite haunt. A regular, he likes nothing better than the rumble of the bowl running down the alley and crash and crackle of the pins tumbling down. When a beautiful, older and married neighbor - who shares the same name as his old flame Hitomi - makes an appearance at the Golden Bowl, things start to heat up as Shu teams up with her to challenge some pro bowlers. Will Shu be as lucky with Hitomi as he is with the pins? --NTV
Kita no kuni kara
Narrated by the son, Jun, the tale follows the lives of two children torn between their parents and their parents' divorce. Jun, and his sister Hotaru, grow and mature - willingly and sometimes forcibly - in the harsh climates of Hokkaido, learning the ways of life through their interaction with the folk of Furano.
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a group within the feudal clan which supported to use guns considered Kojiro an obstacle in their goals and has the well-known ronin, Miyamoto Musashi, fight him. Now because of political gain and greed, two honorable men are to fight to the death on Ganryu Island.
Angel's Share
Mizuki plays a 35-year-old woman named Kurumi, who suddenly loses everything in her life when her fiance runs off with all of her assets. Left with a mere 15,000 yen and some boxes of ohagi (a type of rice ball), the despairing Kurumi happens upon a construction site, and she begins handing out the ohagi to the men working there. Using the theme of food, "Tenshi no Wakemae" depicts Kurumi's journey as she turns her life around.
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Filmography
as Gorô Ôura
as Akio Sasaki
as Hirokichi Sakashita
as Shigeo Kanemoto
as Shinjiro Chiri
as Company president Hashiba
as Oba Hiroto (present)
as Kabe
as 宮部
as Oyama Shinkan
as Usaburou Sugawara
as General Kamijo
as Pawnbroker
as Duke Kinmochi Sai-onji
as Michio Tanoue
as Imamura
as Nakayama
as Tokugawa Mitsusada [Yoshimune's father]
as Shuzo Katsuta
as Hotel General Manager
as Matsui Yasuyuki
as Priest Nire
as Matasaburo Tachibana
as Chijiwa (uncredited)
as Chijiwa
as Dr. Fujita
as Kyohei Imazato
as Saburo Ino
as Masayuki Orida
as Kanshi Oda
as Tsuyuguchi
as Otawara Gonzo
as Buddhist priest
as Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)
as Matsutaro Uemura
as Sakuji Onijima
as Chūtabei Iwaki
as Rich Old Man
as Oyaji
as Shinkichi Amamiya
as Ashigara
as Aiba
as Denroku Mihara
as Fujikake
as Tamada
as Aiba
as 北村清吉
as Detective A
as Miyamoto
as Masakage Yamagata
as Shiba
as Patrolman Kano
as Yamada
as Kimura, Bank Clerk
as Noguchi
as Sukune
as Ichiro
as Lawyer Kano
as Kenjuro Kamoshita
as Dr. Matsuzawa
as Suwa
as Gihei Kito
as Colonel Nakabayashi
as Teacher Inagi
as Detective Funamura
as Dr. Gondô
as Akaza
as Priest Oyama
as Tonami Yoshinori
as Seiichiro Takimura
as Tokugen
as Iguchi
as 岩沼隆一郎
as Abbot Jikei
as Seijin-kai Chairman
as Sukegoro Iioka
as Nishino
as Katagiri
as Tadayoshi Kanamori
as Hojo Tokisada
as Karasawa
as Prosecutor Takase
as Old Man at the Junk Shop
as Okabayashi Mokunosuke
as Judge A