Utaemon Ichikawa

Acting

Utaemon Ichikawa

Born 1904-02-11 Marugame, Kagawa, Japan 126 films

Utaemon Ichikawa was a Japanese film actor famous for starring roles in Jidaigeki from the 1920s to the 1960s. Trained in kabuki from childhood, he made his film debut in 1925 at Makino Film Productions under Shōzō Makino. Quickly gaining popularity, he followed the example of Makino stars such as Tsumasaburō Bandō in starting his own independent production company, Utaemon Ichikawa Productions, in 1927. It was there he first began the "Idle Vassal" (Hatam…

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Filmography

126 films
The Lord's spy poster

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitim…

The Lord's spy

★ 7.0 1964

Drunken Sword poster

Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt author…

Drunken Sword

★ 6.0 1962

Kisaragi Sword poster

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexp…

Kisaragi Sword

★ 5.5 1962