Hisashi Igawa
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hisashi Igawa (井川比佐志 born 17 November 1936) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Dodesukaden, Ran and Madadayo. He starred in Abe Kōbō's production of The Man Who Turned Into A Stick, a surrealist play, in 1969.
Born: November 17, 1936
Known For
Eternal Monument
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father’s footsteps?
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark.
Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Jose Torres
A documentary about the eponymous Puerto Rican boxer
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 Tetsuruo Ogawa
as Toshio Nakamura
as Oouchi Kazuo
as Bunji
as Katsuji Shimizu
as Shiro Tazaki
as Naitou Shosuke
as Yujiro
as Kanji Shimizu
as Housekeeper Agent
as The Chairman
as Tokuji
as Tokujiro Okouchi
as Susumu Horie
as Sayuri's father
as Tetsuzo
as Kihei Ishiyama
as Shooter
as Shoji
as Detective
as Editor Yabe
as Isobe
as Okuda
as Takayama
as Prosecutor
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Tadao
as Yuta Hanafusa
as Otomo
as Nuclear Plant Worker
as Soji
as Ryokichi Tagami
as 父・辰吉
as Maekawa
as 勘作
as Isoya
as Vice-principal
as Osamu Uemura
as Tsubono
as Running Man
as Shuri Kurogane
as Ryusaku Matsumoto
as Nishijima Tetsukichi
as Army Surgeon Oka
as Gyougyou
as The Carp
as Iwakura
as Kyuemon
as Kanji Igawa
as Funazu
as Seiichi Ishizaki
as Tetsuro's brother
as Ota
as Narrator
as the boxer
as Masuo Masuda
as Seiichi
as Lt. Mitsuo Matsuzaki (uncredited)
as Takeuchi Shinjiro
as Sakurai
as Kempeitai Lieutenant
as Eigoro
as Man with Mole
as Motoki
as Man on Boat
as Mosuke
as Detective Tokumochi
as Matsushima
as Retainer
as Otsuka
as Masui Ittôhei
as Narrator
as Goro
as Takuro