Kichiemon Nakamura II

Kichiemon Nakamura II

Born: May 22, 1944
Died: November 28, 2021
in Tokyo, Japan
Nakamura Kichiemon II (born May 22, 1944 ) is a Japanese actor, kabuki performer and costume designer.

Nakamura Kichiemon is a formal kabuki stage name. The actor's grandfather first appeared using the name in 1897; and Nakamura Kichiemon I continued to use this name until his death. Kichiemon I was the maternal grandfather of Kichiemon II.

In the conservative Kabuki world, stage names are passed from father to son in formal system which converts the kabuki stage name into a mark of accomplishment.In choosing to be known by the same stage name as his grandfather, the living kabuki performer honors his family relationships and tradition.

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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
Title: Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
Released: December 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku
Title: Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
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Snow on The Blades
Title: Snow on The Blades
Character: Naosuke Ii
Released: September 20, 2014
Type: Movie
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
Title: Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: April 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing Heizo the Demon investigates daily.
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Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
Title: Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: June 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...
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Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki
Title: Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: July 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it's the quick work of a solo member. Heizo Hasegawa with his hands full may have caught a break, it may be a falling out among the thieves.
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Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman
Title: Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried about the child of Inoue Tatsuizumi, who decided to ask for help for Gen'an.
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Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
Title: Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: April 6, 2007
Type: Movie
Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?
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Title: Sceneries Engraved in our Hearts
Character: MC
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
Title: Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
Title: Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
Character: Hasegawa Heizô, aka Onihei
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying "I will try to find out if this woman is a bodhisattva or a demon." After meeting Katsutoshi Heizo, felt embarrassed and ordered Gorozo to inquire about her just in case. Gorozo, in turn, sends secret detective Rihachi to Yamabukiya with the task of keeping an eye on Katsutoshi...
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Onihei's Detective Records
Title: Onihei's Detective Records
Released: November 18, 1995
Type: Movie
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
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Rikyu
Title: Rikyu
Character: Lord Ieyasu
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
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Title: Onihei Hankachō
Character: Heizou Hasegawa
Released: July 12, 1989
Type: TV
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.
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Title: Musashibo Benkei
Character: Benkei
Released: April 9, 1986
Type: TV
After being carried in his mother’s womb for three years, Benkei is born with long hair and teeth and the body of a small child. It is said that he immediately laughed and commented on the brightness of the outside world, leading local people in his native Kii (modern Wakayama) to proclaim that he is a devil. Abandoned on a mountainside, he is adopted by Dainagon, a Kyoto resident who rears him until age seven when he leaves to become a monk. Thrown out of the monastery for his violent behavior, Benkei wanders Japan in search of enlightenment, though only trouble seems to find him. After accidentally causing a temple to burn down, he decides to begin a quest to defeat 1,000 of the hated Heike samurai in battle and donate their swords to a temple. Obtaining the first 999 swords proves relatively easy but the final weapon belongs to Yoshitsune, a young boy whose appearance belies his great skill as a warrior.
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Title: License to Kill
Character: Hanafusa Izumo
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: TV
We're in Shamisen-bori of the bustling city of Edo. The officers of Guardhouse 36 monopolize the popularity in Edo. They're strong against evil, soft in compassion. Even the shogun depends on them. They're called the “Kirisute Bansho”... with a right to kill.
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Love and Faith
Title: Love and Faith
Character: Ukon Takayama
Released: June 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
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Gateway to Glory
Title: Gateway to Glory
Character: Ichiro Hirata
Released: July 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
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Double Suicide
Title: Double Suicide
Character: Jihei
Released: May 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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Kuroneko
Title: Kuroneko
Character: Gintoki
Released: February 24, 1968
Type: Movie
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Bandits on the Wind
Title: Bandits on the Wind
Released: November 22, 1961
Type: Movie
1961 Japanese movie
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The River Fuefuki
Title: The River Fuefuki
Character: Yasuzo - 2nd Son
Released: October 19, 1960
Type: Movie
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
Title: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Japanese horror movie from 1950.
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Kamakura Sandaiki - Inugawa-mura Kankyo
Title: Kamakura Sandaiki - Inugawa-mura Kankyo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie