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Shintaro Katsu
Shintaro Katsu in 1956
Born
Toshio Okumura
(1931-11-29)29 November 1931
Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Died
21 June 1997(1997-06-21) (aged 65)
Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Occupation(s)
Actor, singer, producer, writer and director
Years active
1954–97
Spouse
Tamao Nakamura
Shintaro Katsu (Japanese: 勝 新太郎, Hepburn: Katsu Shintarō, 29 November 1931 – 21 June 1997) was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker. He is known for starring in the Akumyo series, the Hoodlum Soldier series, and the Zatoichi series.
ShintaroKatsu (Japanese: 勝 新太郎, Hepburn: KatsuShintarō, 29 November 1931 – 21 June 1997) was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker. He is known for...
drastically altered and developed for the screen by Daiei Film and actor ShintaroKatsu, becoming the subject of one of Japan's longest-running film series...
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first installment in a long-running jidaigeki film series starring ShintaroKatsu as the blind swordsman Zatoichi. The blind masseur Zatoichi is hired...
the same name. The films star ShintaroKatsu as the title character. He also produced the trilogy through his own Katsu Productions. After the decline...
is a 1968 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring ShintaroKatsu. The screenplay was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his novel The Ruined Map...
Ogami Ittō, is played by Tomisaburo Wakayama, brother of the producer, ShintaroKatsu, who is known for playing Zatoichi in a series of 26 films starting...
a 1967 Japanese chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi and starring ShintaroKatsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei...
1964 Japanese chambara film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda and starring ShintaroKatsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei...
a 1970 Japanese Chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi and starring ShintaroKatsu, who also produced and co-wrote the script. It is the twenty-first of...
Monogatari) is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and starring ShintaroKatsu as Zatōichi the blind swordsman, a character created by Kan Shimozawa...
meets several characters including the disgraced doctor, Gentetsu (ShintaroKatsu), a pompous police constable, and a criminal he has arrested. The ronin...
known for such successful film series as the Zatoichi series starring ShintaroKatsu, the Nemuri Kyoshiro (Sleepy Eyes of Death) series starring Raizō Ichikawa...
is a 1963 Japanese Chambara film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka starring ShintaroKatsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi, originally released by the Daiei Motion...
a series of nine films that followed two soldiers, Kisaburo Omiya (ShintaroKatsu), a former yakuza who has become a soldier, and Arita (Takahiro Tamura)...
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