Saburo Date
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 27, 1924
Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Known For
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.
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.
Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Professional Killers
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Kogarashi Monjiro
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents
Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.
A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.
Filmography
as Takeno Grandfather
as Maruyama
as Okabe
as Ikeda Kazue
as Businessman's Man
as Tsukada
as Rokubei of Hakoda
as Swift-style Swordsman
as Kaizutoshi
as Official Envoy
as Senzo
as Fukami Shinzaemon
as Yakuza
as Tokunoshin Wakita
as First Ronin
as Ryôan Shimomura
as Kagimatsu
as Hanji
as Ippei Cyjûma
as Policeman
as Toda Shingo
as Kanai Hanbei
as Monjiro
as Mon'nosuke Kaizuka
as Hatori Hanzo
as Juzo Kakei
as Flying Squirrel Banzo
as Zeniya Gohei
as Choshichi
as Kobotoke Kodaira
as Anzo
as Kawaguchi-ya
as Keisuke Yamanami
as Mirosuke
as Manta
as Heikichi Hisama
as Ashvajit
as Hirama Jusuke
as Watônai no Yasu
as Police Detective
as 転法利平
as Jûbei Negoro
as Police detective A
as Genba Kanai
as Shokichi, samurai's servant
as Denzô Yuasa
as Katada Government Official
as Mizuno
as Nakauchi
as Kimpei
as Tomoyuki
as Imanishi
as Vassal
as Kino
as Keizô Sasatani