Raizō Ichikawa
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ichikawa Raizō VIII (born 29 August 1931 in Kyoto, Japan, died 17 July 1969 in Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese film and kabuki actor. Died of rectal cancer. He was born as Yoshiya Ōta in Kyoto on August 29, 1931. Ichikawa Raizō appeared mostly in period dramas (jidaigeki). He is best known for the Sleepy Eyes of Death (Nemuri Kyoshiro) series, Ninja (Shinobi no Mono) series and Nakano Spy School (Rikugun Nakano Gakkō) series (based on the Nakano School). Raizō worked many times with director Kenji Misumi. Their collaborations include The Sword (Ken) (from a book by Yukio Mishima) and Destiny's Son (Kiru). Other great works include An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo henge). Description above from the Wikipedia article Raizō Ichikawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 29, 1931
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Known For
The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soon, an offer of marriage is brought to Harima. Trying to test his love, Okiku breaks one of the plates of the family treasure of the Aoyama family, but Harima doesn't notice. However, someone surrounding her witnesses the moment Okiku breaks the plate on purpose.
Lord Tadanao
Sworn Brothers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.
Ken
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
Bloody Shuriken
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
Samurai Vendetta
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.
Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
Filmography
as Jokichi Sakurada
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Isazo
as Jiro Shiina
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Nitta
as Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Jiro Shiina
as Shiozawa
as Jiro Shiina
as Kojiro Kasumi
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Jiro Shiina
as Kobuse Takuma
as Jiro Shiina
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Saizo Kumogakure
as Hanpei
as Takeshi Nanjo
as Saizo Kumogakure
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Takeshi Nanjo
as Ibuki
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Kirigakure Saizo
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Ipponmatsu
as Saizo Kirigakure
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as Jiro Kokubun
as Goemon Ishikawa
as Nemuri Kyoshiro
as монах Докё
as Goemon Ishikawa
as Harima Aoyama
as Kyonosuke Ninomiya / Yasutaka Ikemoto
as Hirutaro
as Yamasaki Susumu
as Ishikawa Goemon
as Ching Ko
as Shojiro Sawada
as Takakura Shingo
as Masakichi
as Ushimatsu Segawa
as Mondo Hayase
as Kunala
as Hikaru Genji
as Suke-san
as Kutsukake Tokijirô
as Ryûnosuke Tsukue
as Yonosuke
as Tsukue Ryunosuke
as Ryunosuke Tsukue
as Anchin
as Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu / Minamoto-no-Raikô
as Kikuji
as Tanukichiro
as Tenge Tanzen
as Shinosuke Shimada
as Kira no Nikichi
as Hanjirô
as Gennosuke Matsudaira
as Hôjô Tokimune
as Goichi Mizoguchi
as Shinpachiro Nasu
as Takuminokami Asano
as Momotaro / Shinnosuke Wakagi
as Tokugawa Mangorō
as Arisugawa
as Keizaburo
as Gonpachirô Shiga
as Tatsuma Hayase
as Taira Kiyomori