Jirō Sakagami
Jirō Sakagami (坂上 二郎, Sakagami Jirō, 16 April 1934 – 10 March 2011) was a Japanese comedian, actor, and singer.
Career[edit]
Sakagami was born in Kagoshima Prefecture but spent most of his childhood in Manchukuo.[1] Winning an NHK song contest at age 19, he headed to Tokyo to try to make a name in the entertainment business, eventually training as a comedian at the Asakusa strip clubs.[1] It was there that he met Kin'ichi Hagimoto and in 1966, the two formed the owarai duo Konto 55-gō.[2] Konto 55-gō became nationally famous, starring in several top-rated shows on television. Sakagami continued to release songs and branched out into acting, appearing in television dramas as well as in films such as Nagisa Ōshima's Taboo.[2]
He died of a stroke on 10 March 2011 at a Tochigi Prefecture hospital.[1]
Partial filmography[edit]
- Hatsukoi sengen (1968) - Manager
- Hakuchû dôdô (1968)
- Konto gojugo-go: Seiki no daijukuten (1968) - Yota Kitagawa
- Kamisama no koibito (1968)
- Hitokiri-O Castigo (1969)
- Konto 55-gō jinrui no daijakuten (コント55号 人類の大弱点) (1969)
- Konto55go-ore wa ninja no mago (1969) - Konto55
- Mito Kômon man'yûki (1969) - Jirobei
- Konto 55-gō uchū no daibōken (コント55号 宇宙大冒険) (1969)
- Namida no nagashi uta inochi azukemasu (1970) - Patron
- Kigeki sore ga otoko no ikiru michi (1970)
- Futari de hitori (1970)
- Fuji Keiko Waga uta no arukagiri (1971)
- Konto Gojugo-go to Miko no zettai zetsumei (1971) - Jiro Sakamoto
- The Last Samurai (1974)
- Kigeki damashi no jingi (1974)
- Kigeki: onna no naki-dokoro (1975)
- Hadashi no seishun (1975)
- Seisyun no Kôzu (1976) - Gorô Sakaguchi
- Omatsuri yarô: uogashi no kyôdai-bun (1976)
- Inubue (1978) - Cab driver
- Edo no Taka (1978)- House keeper/Spy
- Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) - Chinese Wiseman (Japanese version, voice)
- Kindaichi Kosuke no boken (1979) - Goemon Ishida
- The Highest Honor (1982) - Kimura
- Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni (1983) - Ikumatsu
- Amagigoe (天城越え Amagigoe) (1983) - Sweet Shop Owner
- Okinawa no shonen (1983) - Production chief
- Shiosai (1985)
- A Class to Remember (学校 Gakko) (1993)
- Kappa (1994) - Village Mayor
- Anne no Nikki (1995) - Mr. Hans Van Dann (Hermann van Pels) (voice)
- Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai (1998) - Risaburo Miyazaki
- Taboo (御法度 Gohatto) (1999) - Lieutenant Genzaburo Inoue
- Drug (2001) - Shoichiro Hirakawa
- Shin yukiguni (2001) - Kobayashi
- Fukumimi (2003)
- Hokushin naname ni sasu tokoro (2007) - Sanada (final film role)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Sayonara Jiro-san". Japan Zone. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ a b "Sagami Jirō-shi shikyo". 47 News. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
External links[edit]
- Jiro Sakagami at IMDb
- Sakagami Jirō at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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| Artists | |
- Japanese male comedians
- Japanese male film actors
- Japanese male stage actors
- Japanese male television actors
- Japanese male voice actors
- 1934 births
- 2011 deaths
- Singers from Kagoshima Prefecture
- Actors from Kagoshima Prefecture
- 20th-century Japanese male actors
- 20th-century Japanese male singers
- 20th-century Japanese singers
- 21st-century Japanese male actors
- 21st-century Japanese male singers
- 21st-century Japanese singers