(16 April 1934 – 10 March 2011) was a Japanese comedian, actor, and singer.
Career
Sakagami was born in
Kagoshima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...
but spent most of his childhood in
Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...
.
Winning an
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
song contest at age 19, he headed to Tokyo to try to make a name in the entertainment business, eventually training as a comedian at the
Asakusa
is a district in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. It is known as the location of the Sensō-ji, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon. There are several other temples in Asakusa, as well as various festivals, such as the .
History
The ...
strip clubs.
It was there that he met
Kin'ichi Hagimoto and in 1966, the two formed the
owarai
is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. The word ''owarai'' is the honorific form of the word ''warai'' (by adding o- prefix), meaning "a laugh" or "a smile". ''Owarai'' is most common on Japanese variety show ...
duo Konto 55-gō.
Konto 55-gō became nationally famous, starring in several top-rated shows on television. Sakagami continued to release songs and branched out into acting, appearing in television dramas as well as in films such as
Nagisa Ōshima
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. One of the foremost directors within the Japanese New Wave, his films include '' In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan, and ''Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrenc ...
's ''
Taboo
A taboo or tabu is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, sacred, or allowed only for certain persons.''Encyclopædia Britannica ...
''.
He died of a stroke on 10 March 2011 at a
Tochigi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Tochigi Prefecture has a population of 1,943,886 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,408 km2 (2,474 sq mi). Tochigi Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the ...
hospital.
Partial filmography
* ''Hatsukoi sengen'' (1968) - Manager
* ''Hakuchû dôdô'' (1968)
* ''Konto gojugo-go: Seiki no daijukuten'' (1968) - Yota Kitagawa
* ''Kamisama no koibito'' (1968)
* ''Hitokiri-O Castigo'' (1969)
* ''
Konto 55-gō jinrui no daijakuten'' (コント55号 人類の大弱点) (1969)
* ''Konto55go-ore wa ninja no mago'' (1969) - Konto55
* ''Mito Kômon man'yûki'' (1969) - Jirobei
* ''
Konto 55-gō uchū no daibōken'' (コント55号 宇宙大冒険) (1969)
* ''Namida no nagashi uta inochi azukemasu'' (1970) - Patron
* ''Kigeki sore ga otoko no ikiru michi'' (1970)
* ''Futari de hitori'' (1970)
* ''Fuji Keiko Waga uta no arukagiri'' (1971)
* ''Konto Gojugo-go to Miko no zettai zetsumei'' (1971) - Jiro Sakamoto
* ''
The Last Samurai
''The Last Samurai'' is a 2003 epic period action drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan. The film stars Ken Watanabe in the ...
'' (1974)
* ''Kigeki damashi no jingi'' (1974)
* ''Kigeki: onna no naki-dokoro'' (1975)
* ''Hadashi no seishun'' (1975)
* ''Seisyun no Kôzu'' (1976) - Gorô Sakaguchi
* ''Omatsuri yarô: uogashi no kyôdai-bun'' (1976)
* ''Inubue'' (1978) - Cab driver
* ''Edo no Taka'' (1978)- House keeper/Spy
* ''
Nutcracker Fantasy
is a Japanese-American stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio, very loosely based on Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet ''The Nutcracker'' and E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It is directed by Takeo Nakamura and writ ...
'' (1979) - Chinese Wiseman (Japanese version, voice)
* ''Kindaichi Kosuke no boken'' (1979) - Goemon Ishida
* ''
The Highest Honor
''The Highest Honour'' is a 1982 Australian/Japanese co-production about Operation Jaywick and Operation Rimau by Z Special Unit during World War II.
The same story inspired the TV mini-series '' Heroes'' (1988) and '' Heroes II: The Return'' (1 ...
'' (1982) - Kimura
* ''Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni'' (1983) - Ikumatsu
* ''
Amagigoe'' (天城越え Amagigoe) (1983) - Sweet Shop Owner
* ''Okinawa no shonen'' (1983) - Production chief
* ''Shiosai'' (1985)
* ''
A Class to Remember
is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.
Synopsis
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the ...
'' (学校 Gakko) (1993)
* ''Kappa'' (1994) - Village Mayor
* ''
Anne no Nikki
, also known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a 1995 Japanese anime film based on Anne Frank's 1942-1944 ''The Diary of a Young Girl''. It is a feature film by Madhouse, was directed by Akinori Nagaoka and released on August 19, 1995.
Voice c ...
'' (1995) - Mr. Hans Van Dann (Hermann van Pels) (voice)
* ''Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai'' (1998) - Risaburo Miyazaki
* ''
Taboo
A taboo or tabu is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, sacred, or allowed only for certain persons.''Encyclopædia Britannica ...
'' (御法度 Gohatto) (1999) - Lieutenant Genzaburo Inoue
* ''Drug'' (2001) - Shoichiro Hirakawa
* ''Shin yukiguni'' (2001) - Kobayashi
* ''Fukumimi'' (2003)
* ''Hokushin naname ni sasu tokoro'' (2007) - Sanada (final film role)
References
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Japanese comedians
Japanese male film actors
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male voice actors
1934 births
2011 deaths
Musicians from Kagoshima Prefecture
Actors from Kagoshima Prefecture
20th-century Japanese male actors
20th-century Japanese male singers
20th-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male singers
21st-century Japanese singers