Tarō Shigaki
Also Known As: Taro Shigaki, Tarô Shigaki, Tarou Shigaki
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 (氷山のごとく, Hyōzan nogotoku) and Horror of the Wolf (狼の紋章, Ōkami no monshō). Currently, he is also active as a reporter for gourmet and travel programs. In dramas and historical dramas, he plays a wide range of roles, from comical to serious ones.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: September 22, 1951
Deathday: March 05, 2022
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Gender: Male
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Onmyōji
Overview: The story of Abe no Seimei, an onmyōji in Japan's Heian period, fighting with evil spirits.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Overview: Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-07
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RoboGeisha
Overview: Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-03
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Firefly 2 Red Scar
Overview: The ephemeral and vivid brilliance of three men and a woman run through Yokohama.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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Swan Lake
Overview: 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 ...
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
Overview: The story of a beautiful mermaid who gave up a kingdom for her beloved prince.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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Benisuzume's Weekend
Overview: A school romantic comedy that focuses on a group of high school girls.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Silent Mobius Gaiden: The End of the Edo Period
Overview: Set in the final years of Japan's shogunate, all characters from the main series, Silent Mobius, appear with the same name. According to the setting, they are said to be the previous lives of the characters in the main story...
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-22
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Zero Fighter
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Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-02
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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Nutcracker Fantasy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Raining Blood
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Horror of the Wolf
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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Stray Dog
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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The Possessed
Overview: Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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Hangyaku no Tabi
Overview: Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu, a woman he has fallen in love with, but the intensity of his love for her begins to drive him towards destruction...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-04
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Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation War Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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Area 88 Act II: The Requirements of Wolves
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation War Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Action Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-15
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The Runaway Season
Overview: The third movie in the "Boso" series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Black Butler
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Action Adventure Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-18
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Toward the Terra
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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The Highest Honour
Overview: After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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My Voiceless Friends
Overview: A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-29
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Ghosts of the Dolls
Overview: A high school girl is invited to an old family's historic Hinamatsuri (Girls' Festival), but becomes entangled in an anomaly caused by the curse of the Hina dolls.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-24
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First Love
Overview: A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-23
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Shabake
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Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-24
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