Jinpachi Nezu
Acting
Biography
Jinpachi Nezu (根津 甚八, Nezu Jinpachi, 1 December 1947 – 29 December 2016) was a Japanese actor. He has appeared in 56 films and television shows since 1974. He starred in the 1982 film Farewell to the Land, which was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jinpachi Nezu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: December 1, 1947
Place of Birth: Tsuru, Yamanashi, Japan
Known For
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Japanese horror film with four segments.
Kidnapping Blues
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Tasmania Story
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.
The Roads Men Travel
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.
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.
Aiken Rosinante no Sainan ~ Mukai Ryuuta no Doubutsu Nikki
The star of the show is Rosinante, a lovable Labrador retriever, whose master, a commuter train conductor, dies while Rosinante is spending the night at the impromptu weekend dog hotel a veterinary professor has set up at the university to collect a little extra cash. With a touch of the loyal Hachiko in him, Rosinante greets all the passing trains his master used to ride. Such loyalty leads Domoto to adopt Rosinante even if it does mean getting thrown out of his apartment building and having to live in the girl's dorm. "Dear Diary, the dogs broke out of the veterinary clinic again today . . .", you would think was written by a person. Well, the whole story is in fact told by a dog, Rosinante, one of the inhabitants of a university veterinary clinic. Chief among his writings is happy-go-lucky yet hapless vet student Arata Mukai, who is at bliss with animals. The question is, can Arata get along with his peers and professors as well as he can with the animals he cares for?
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.
Angel's Egg
In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.
Happy-Go-Lucky
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums.
Patlabor 2: The Movie
A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
Filmography
as Kaname Hizu
as Matsuo
as Frontier guard
as Ichiro Yamanaka (Konoha's father)
as Gensai Negoro
as Shozo Yuki
as Hattori Hanzo
as Kohei Nakayama
as Tsukamoto Masaharu
as Goro Nogi
as Man in TV Drama
as Aizawa Goro
as Kaname Hizu
as Mikuo Kaga
as Namekata Kozo
as Muraki
as Detective Karaki
as Kozo Yukikata
as Yukihito Tsuge (voice)
as Hashigawa
as Superintendent Ikebe
as Toshimichi Kariya
as Tsukasa Kono
as Yoshio Hakamada
as Nakahara Naô
as Shinsuke Furushima
as Man (voice)
as Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
as Mr. Kida (voice)
as Doctor
as Drunken Guest
as Sudo
as Yukio Yamazawa
as Goro Yoshimatsu
as Kazuo Asada
as Sohachiro Tsuchiya
as Toshio Aiba
as Ishikawa Goemon
as Yakuzu
as Ryusaku
as Jun