Tarō Shigaki

Actor

September 22, 1951 (70 years)

† March 5, 2022

Ōta, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Tarō Shigaki (志垣太郎, Shigaki Tarō, September 22, 1951) was a Japanese actor and voice actor. His real name was 河村稔. He graduated from the Nihon University College of Art. He was 170 cm tall and weighs 59 kg. Actress Noriko Shirasaka (白坂紀子) was his wife. He worked for Oscar Promotion. In 1969, he made his debut as the leading role in Star of the Giants (巨人の星, Kyojin no Hoshi). His leading works include 1974 Fuji TV The Blue Mountains (青い山脈, Aoi sanmyaku), Akantare (あかんたれ), Like an Iceberg (氷山の…

Filmography

9.5

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

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N/A

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

Ichiro

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8.3

The Rose of Versailles

André Grandier

Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.

7.6

Black Pean

Nobuaki Moriya

Seishiro Tokai (Kazunari Ninomiya) works as a surgeon at a university hospital. He possesses excellent technique with suture and carries a surgery success rate of 100%. Due to his arrogant attitude and personality, he comes into conflict with those around him. A new doctor tries to introduce the latest medical device for surgery, which doesn't need a surgeon's hand. Seishiro Tokai is skeptical of the device. He faces the university hospital administration and reveals corruption and hidden past behind the medical device.

N/A

Kashin

Kusaka Yoshisuke

Centered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the modern Japanese millitary system.

7.7

Area 88

Saki Vashutal (voice)

Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying.

7.0

Notes on Tokugawa Villainies

Tokugawa Iemitsu

Matsudaira Tadateru (Shin'ichi Chiba) the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu that was stripped of his title and began life under an assumed name in the Red Light district of Edo. He solves crimes, heals the sick, saves the Geisha from evil Samurai and along the way he teams up with Yagyu Jubei (a role played numerous times by Chiba himself). Awesome Samurai Action.

7.0

Black Butler

Tanaka

Set in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.

6.6

Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

Prince (voice)

The story of a beautiful mermaid who gave up a kingdom for her beloved prince.

6.9

Swan Lake

Prince Siegfried (voice)

The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess ...

6.3

Toward the Terra

Soldier Blue (voice)

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

N/A

Onna: Sono Ai no Series

Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous Japanese novels.

7.8

Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage

Saki Vashutal

Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.

6.6

Nutcracker Fantasy

Franz / Fritz (voice)

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a stop-motion animated film.

5.4

RoboGeisha

Kenyama Kageno

Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.

7.1

Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal

Saki Vashutal

7.9

Stray Dog

Kiyoteru Higa

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.

7.3

Horror of the Wolf

Akira Inugami

Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.

5.6

Raining Blood

Akari's Father

One day, Naoto receives a package. Inside he finds a book, ‘LIVE’. At the same time, he receives an image on mobile phone of his mother being kidnapped and a call from a mysterious man. “If you don’ t want us to inject the killer virus in your mother, find the hints hidden in the novel and head for the goal in the death race!” Naoto starts running to save his mother with the book in his hand.

N/A

Onmyōji

The story of Abe no Seimei, an onmyōji in Japan's Heian period, fighting with evil spirits.