was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1953 to 1984.

Career

Amachi joined the

Shintoho was a Japanese movie studio. It was one of the big six film studios (which also included Daiei, Nikkatsu, Shochiku, Toei Company, and Toho) during the Golden Age of Japanese cinema. It was founded by defectors from the original Toho company fol ...

studio as one of its "New Face" actors of 1951 and established himself in action and

jidaigeki is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—''Portrait of Hel ...

films. He gained fame for the nihilistic mood of his character in ''Akatsuki no hijōsen'' and starred in

Nobuo Nakagawa was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s. Career Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews to th ...

's version of ''

Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan is a 1959 Japanese horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play ''Yotsuya Kaidan''. The was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted for Shintoho in the late 1950s and was one of the many adaptations of th ...

'' (1959). On television, he played the

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detective in ''Hijō no raisensu'' and

Kogoro Akechi is a fictional private detective created by Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo. Overview Akechi first appeared in the story in January 1925 and continued to appear in stories for a quarter of a century. Edogawa Ranpo (a pseudonym for Tarō ...

in a long-running series of TV specials. On stage he was best known for playing Hishakaku in ''Jinsei gekijō''.

Selected filmography

References

External links

* * 1931 births 1985 deaths Japanese male film actors {{Japan-film-actor-stub