Highest rated movie: Sword of the Beast (1965)
Lowest rated movie: Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
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Movies starring Shigeru Amachi have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 72%.
Sword of the Beast - released in 1965 - is Shigeru Amachi's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 23 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Shigeru Amachi is Blackmail Is My Life - released in 1968 - with a score of 66% based on 3 reviews.
Shigeru Amachi (天知 茂, Amachi Shigeru, 4 March 1931 – 27 July 1985) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1953 to 1984.
Amachi joined the Shintoho studio as one of its "New Face" actors of 1951 and established himself in action and jidaigeki films. He gained fame for the nihilistic mood of his character in Akatsuki no hijōsen and starred in Nobuo Nakagawa's version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959). On television, he played the hardboiled detective in Hijō no raisensu and Kogoro Akechi in a long-running series of TV specials. On stage he was best known for playing Hishakaku in Jinsei gekijō.
Shigeru Amachi has acted in films with Shintarō Katsu, Yōko Mihara, Kanae Kobayashi and Gen Kimura.
Shigeru Amachi has worked with these film directors: Kinji Fukasaku, Hideo Gosha, Kenji Misumi and Tokuzō Tanaka.
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