Hiroshi Hayashi
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 1, 1894
Place of Birth: Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan
Known For
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.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
The Cannery Boat
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.
Filmography
as Chief of Metropolitan Police
as Hisanao Tanegashima
as Kuronuma
as Yusaku Hiramatsu
as President Yanase
as Gôzô Shimizu
as Masanori Ono
as Imai
as Politician Numata
as General Nogi Maresuke
as Kiemon Itô
as Eshima-ya Jiuemon
as Foreign Affairs Minister Togo
as Dr. Yamanaka
as General Nogi
as Satomi Yoshimi
as Chairman of Diet Committee (uncredited)
as Chairman of Diet Committee
as Weak Ronin
as Executive
as Yakuza