Kanjūrō Arashi
Kanjūrō Arashi (嵐 寛壽郎, Arashi Kanjūrō, 8 December 1903 – 21 October 1980[1]) was a Japanese film actor. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels.[1] In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s. His nickname was "Arakan."
Filmography
His filmography includes over 300 films:[2]
- Kurama Tengu (鞍馬天狗, Kurama Tengu) (1928)
- Kurama Tengu: Kyōfu Jidai (鞍馬天狗 恐怖時代, The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu) (1928)
- Kurama Tengu ōedo ihen (鞍馬天狗 大江戸異変 ) (1950)
- Meiji tennō to Nichiro daisensō (明治天皇と日露大戦争) (1957)
- Kyōen Kobanzame (侠艶小判鮫, Kyōen Kobanzame) (1958)
- Hana no Shōgai (1963, tv series)
- Akō Rōshi (1964, tv series)
- Abashiri Prison (網走番外地, Abashiri Bangaichi) (1965)
- The Profound Desire of the Gods (神々の深き欲望, Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo) (1968)
- Higashi Shinakai (1968)
- Nichiren (1979)
References
- ^ a b "Arashi Kanjūrō". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ (in Japanese) Japanese Movie Database accessed 27 May 2009
Bibliography
- Takenaka, Rō (1976). Kurama tengu no ojisan wa: kikigaki Arakan ichi-dai. Shirakawa Shoin. OCLC 30581099.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kanjūrō Arashi.
- Kanjūrō Arashi at IMDb
- (in Japanese) Kinema Junpō Database
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