Raizō Ichikawa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ichikawa Raizō VIII (born 29 August 1931 in Kyoto, Japan, died 17 July 1969 in Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese film and kabuki actor. Died of rectal cancer. He was born as Yoshiya Ōta in Kyoto on August 29, 1931. Ichikawa Raizō appeared mostly in period dramas (jidaigeki). He is best known for the Sleepy Eyes of Death (Nemuri Kyoshiro) series, Ninja (Shinobi no Mono) series and Nakano Spy School (Rikugun Nakano Gakkō) series (based on the Nakano School). Raizō worked many times with director Kenji Misumi. Their collaborations include The Sword (Ken) (from a book by Yukio Mishima) and Destiny's Son (Kiru). Other great works include An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo henge). Description above from the Wikipedia article Raizō Ichikawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

An Actor's Revenge
Conflagration
Taira Clan Saga
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Destiny's Son
Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
Birth Location Kyoto, Japan
Born 1931-08-29
Died 1969-07-17

Movies

Sworn Brothers as Jokichi Sakurada
1969
Lone Wolf Isazo as Isazo
1968
1968
A Killer's Key as Nitta
1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka as Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka
1967
1967
Secret Assignment as Jiro Shiina
1967
A Certain Killer as Shiozawa
1967
Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Jiro Shiina
1967
1966
Assignment Cloud as Jiro Shiina
1966
The Betrayal as Kobuse Takuma
1966
The School of Spies as Jiro Shiina
1966
Sword Devil as Hanpei
1965
Young Boss: Prison Release as Takeshi Nanjo
1965
1965
1965
Young Boss as Takeshi Nanjo
1965
Bloody Shuriken as Ibuki
1965
1965
1964
On the Road Forever as Ipponmatsu
1964
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege as Saizo Kirigakure
1964
Ken as Jiro Kokubun
1964
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection as Goemon Ishikawa
1963
Bronze Magician as монах Докё
1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Goemon Ishikawa
1963
A Samurai Never Tells a Lie as Harima Aoyama
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior as Kyonosuke Ninomiya / Yasutaka Ikemoto
1963
An Actor's Revenge as Hirutaro
1963
Shinsengumi Chronicles as Yamasaki Susumu
1963
Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Ishikawa Goemon
1962
The Great Wall as Ching Ko
1962
The Fencing Master as Shojiro Sawada
1962
Destiny's Son as Takakura Shingo
1962
1962
The Broken Commandment as Ushimatsu Segawa
1962
Her Hidden Past as Mondo Hayase
1962
Buddha as Kunala
1961
The Radiant Prince as Hikaru Genji
1961
The Gambler's Code as Kutsukake Tokijirô
1961
1961
A Lustful Man as Yonosuke
1961
Satan's Sword: The Dragon God as Tsukue Ryunosuke
1960
Satan's Sword as Ryunosuke Tsukue
1960
1960
The Demon of Mount Oe as Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu / Minamoto-no-Raikô
1960
Bonchi as Kikuji
1960
Enchanted Princess as Tanukichiro
1959
Samurai Vendetta as Tenge Tanzen
1959
Stop the Old Fox as Shinosuke Shimada
1959
Jirocho Fuji as Kira no Nikichi
1959
The Thousand Cranes Secret scroll as Senbazuru no Hanjiro (The Thousand Cranes)
1959
1959
1959
The Gay Masquerade as Benten kozo Kikunosuke
1958
Nuregami kenpo as Gennosuke Matsudaira
1958
1958
Conflagration as Goichi Mizoguchi
1958
The Swishing Sword as Shinpachiro Nasu
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin as Takuminokami Asano
1958
Freelance Samurai as Momotaro / Shinnosuke Wakagi
1957
Mangorō Tengu as Tokugawa Mangorō
1957
Love of the Princess as Arisugawa
1957
An Osaka Story as Keizaburo
1957
Gonpachi as Gonpachirô Shiga
1956
Tsukigata Hanpeita as Tatsuma Hayase
1956
1956
Taira Clan Saga as Taira Kiyomori
1955
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