Hiroshi Tachikawa

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Born: March 7, 1931
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Hiroshi Tachikawa...

喜劇 男の顔は人生よ
Title: 喜劇 男の顔は人生よ
Released: July 3, 1971
Type: Movie
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Hazardous Graduation
Title: Hazardous Graduation
Released: December 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.
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Tomorrow's Joe
Title: Tomorrow's Joe
Released: July 22, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Resurrection of the Beast
Title: The Resurrection of the Beast
Released: December 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Crime film released in 1969
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The Rough One
Title: The Rough One
Released: June 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.
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Let's Go! Young Guy
Title: Let's Go! Young Guy
Character: Sakamoto
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his sights set on winning football gold, but his father, who wants him to take over his sukiyaki restaurant, isn't too keen on this. Set in Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Macau, we follow Yuuichi as he falls in love and chases after his dreams.
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Fighting Elegy
Title: Fighting Elegy
Released: November 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
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Zero Fighter
Title: Zero Fighter
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
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Story of a Prostitute
Title: Story of a Prostitute
Character: Sasaki
Released: February 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Title: The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Character: Eburi's younger brother
Released: November 16, 1963
Type: Movie
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
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Matango
Title: Matango
Character: Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
Released: August 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...
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Outpost of Hell
Title: Outpost of Hell
Released: July 28, 1963
Type: Movie
The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
Title: Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
Released: April 28, 1963
Type: Movie
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Title: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Character: Sakura gangster 4
Released: January 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
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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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Our Failures
Title: Our Failures
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
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Star of Hong Kong
Title: Star of Hong Kong
Character: Honda (HK Branch staff)
Released: July 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.
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Ai no uzu shio
Title: Ai no uzu shio
Released: May 22, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Josei jishin
Title: Josei jishin
Released: May 22, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Gorath
Title: Gorath
Character: Wakabayashi
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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続新入社員十番勝負 サラリーマン一刀流
Title: 続新入社員十番勝負 サラリーマン一刀流
Released: February 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Sanjuro
Title: Sanjuro
Character: Samurai
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
Title: Acchan no bebi gyangu
Released: September 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
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Yojimbo
Title: Yojimbo
Character: Yoichiro
Released: April 25, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Romance Express
Title: Romance Express
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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Sazae And Aunt Apron
Title: Sazae And Aunt Apron
Released: December 25, 1960
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Title: Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Character: Shin Asabuki
Released: May 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
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Jinsei Gekijo
Title: Jinsei Gekijo
Released: November 23, 1958
Type: Movie
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Summer Clouds
Title: Summer Clouds
Character: Shinji
Released: September 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
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Little Peach
Title: Little Peach
Character: Heinosuke Hirayama
Released: May 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
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The Third President
Title: The Third President
Released: March 18, 1958
Type: Movie
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Woman Unveiled
Title: Woman Unveiled
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
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Assistant President
Title: Assistant President
Released: January 3, 1958
Type: Movie
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Title: Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Character: Chojuro
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Title: Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Character: Chôjûrô
Released: July 19, 1957
Type: Movie
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye
Title: A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye
Character: (as Yoichi Tchikawa)
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Ôban
Title: Ôban
Character: Chôjûrô
Released: March 5, 1957
Type: Movie
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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The Paradise Island Story
Title: The Paradise Island Story
Released: January 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
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Throne of Blood
Title: Throne of Blood
Character: Kunimaru Tsuzuki
Released: January 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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Scoundrel
Title: Scoundrel
Released: May 10, 1956
Type: Movie
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The President Talks Bank
Title: The President Talks Bank
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
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Nigetekita hanayome
Title: Nigetekita hanayome
Released: February 12, 1956
Type: Movie
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Young Tree
Title: Young Tree
Character: Jirôzaemon Baba
Released: January 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
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The President's Boss
Title: The President's Boss
Released: January 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
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I Live in Fear
Title: I Live in Fear
Character: Ryoichi Sayama
Released: November 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Title: Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Character: Emi
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
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The First Kiss
Title: The First Kiss
Released: September 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Title: (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Character: Murai
Released: June 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
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Love Never Fails
Title: Love Never Fails
Character: Yoichi Tachikawa
Released: April 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the other boy and the girl find they cannot forget him.
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The Surf
Title: The Surf
Character: Yasuo
Released: October 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
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The Blue Revolution
Title: The Blue Revolution
Released: June 10, 1953
Type: Movie