Kamatari Fujiwara
Acting
Biography
Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原 釜足 Fujiwara Kamatari, January 15, 1905 - December 21, 1985) was a Japanese actor. Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, on January 15, 1905, in Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's parents ran a printing business. The business did not go well, so at the age of 10, Fujiwara started working at a local confectionery store. By the age of 14 he had started selling timber for building and manufacturing in Shizuoka prefecture. A year later he returned to Tokyo to study as a pharmacist. Fukiwara worked regularly and extensively with Akira Kurosawa, and was known for both being adept at comic acting, as well as being able to do serious roles.
Born: January 15, 1905
Place of Birth: Fukagawa, Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
The Man Who Came to Port
An Ishiro Honda film.
I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.
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.
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 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.
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
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.
Filmography
as Small Old Man
as Ryuji Hoshi
as Doctor
as Suda
as Doctor
as Toma's father
as Tatsugoro
as Suicidal Old Man
as Owner of the Yamatoya
as Reiichi Nakagawa (Megumi's Father)
as Shinshichi, father
as Omatsu's grandfather
as The Artist
as 佐平
as Rokusuke
as Jinbei
as Miyuki Sasa
as Junkyard Cook
as Detective Uchiyama
as Takebayashi
as Shinsaburo Akagi
as Kondo, the eel shop owner
as Tazaemon
as Tsunekichi Yamada
as Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada
as Batasuke
as Kumakichi Furukawa
as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
as Gentaro Matsuda
as Matashichi
as Minji-san the soba vendor
as Mr. Takakura
as Teacher Okamoto
as Mr. Okamoto
as The Actor
as Ōkubo Reisuke
as Hikoichi Murai
as Noodle Vendor
as Yoshizo (Rumiko's father)
as Noriko’s father
as Matsunosuke Hiyoshi (Noboru’s Father)
as Yayoshi (Father)
as Okamoto
as Gorosaku
as Tokugoto Izumi
as Saito
as Sano
as Mariko's grandfather
as Jiretsuken Shujin
as Manzô - Father of Shino
as Kimura
as Drunken man B
as Takasaki-Shochou
as 万九郎
as Sub-Section Chief Ono
as Aoyama
as Isaburo
as Innkeeper of Oiso no Yado
as Doctor
as Shunpei Goto
as Kawashima
as Sangin's Master
as Shôjirô
as Tokunaga
as Takezo Yamada
as Mr. Okamoto
as Mr. Okamoto
as Soutaro
as Tamai
as Kamezo
as Sonoda - the bus driver
as Jinjiro Onoda, Ine's father
as Hyoroku Ichikawa - the Forelegs
as Cosmetics' Company Marketing Man
as Sahei
as conductor Saitō
as Kaita
as Shogetsu
as Uncle
as Tadakichi
as Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
as Baido Noso
as Yopparai - the Drunkard