Birthday:
09-22-1951
Deathday:
03-05-2022 (70 years)
Birthplace:
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.
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.
Read morearrow_drop_down
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
Onmyōji
event2015
top_panel_open
The story of Abe no Seimei, an onmyōji in Japan's Heian period, fighting with evil spirits.
The Beauty in the Bathroom
event1978
top_panel_open
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
RoboGeisha
Act like Kenyama Kageno
event2009 star_border 5.4
top_panel_open
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
Firefly 2 Red Scar
event1995
top_panel_open
The ephemeral and vivid brilliance of three men and a woman run through Yokohama.
Swan Lake
Act like Prince Siegfried (voice)
event1981 star_border 7.4
top_panel_open
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 ...
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
Act like Prince (voice)
event1975 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
The story of a beautiful mermaid who gave up a kingdom for her beloved prince.
Benisuzume's Weekend
Act like Mr. Shikata
event1993
top_panel_open
A school romantic comedy that focuses on a group of high school girls.
Silent Mobius Gaiden: The End of the Edo Period
Act like But
event1993
top_panel_open
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...
Wuthering Heights
event1988 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
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.
Nutcracker Fantasy
Act like Franz / Fritz (voice)
event1979 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
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.
Raining Blood
Act like Akari's Father
event2014 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
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.
Horror of the Wolf
Act like Akira Inugami
event1973 star_border 7
top_panel_open
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.
Stray Dog
Act like Kiyoteru Higa
event1973 star_border 7
top_panel_open
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.
The Possessed
event1976
top_panel_open
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.
Hangyaku no Tabi
event1976
top_panel_open
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...
Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal
Act like Saki Vashutal
event1985 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
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.
Area 88 Act II: The Requirements of Wolves
Act like Saki Vashutal
event1985 star_border 7
top_panel_open
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.
Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage
Act like Saki Vashutal
event1986 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
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.
The Runaway Season
Act like Minami
event1976
top_panel_open
The third movie in the "Boso" series.
Black Butler
Act like Tanaka
event2014 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
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.
Toward the Terra
Act like Soldier Blue (voice)
event1980 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
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.
The Highest Honour
Act like Lieutenant Hayakawa
event1982 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
My Voiceless Friends
event1972
top_panel_open
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Ghosts of the Dolls
event1978
top_panel_open
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.
First Love
event1972
top_panel_open
A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film.
Kashin
Act like Kusaka Yoshisuke (52 ep.)
event1977
top_panel_open
Centered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the modern Japanese millitary system.
Onna: Sono Ai no Series
(1 ep.)
event1973
top_panel_open
Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous Japanese novels.
Area 88
Act like Saki Vashutal (voice) (3 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
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.
The Rose of Versailles
Act like André Grandier (40 ep.)
event1979 star_border 8.3
top_panel_open
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.
Black Pean
Act like Nobuaki Moriya (10 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
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.
Notes on Tokugawa Villainies
Act like Tokugawa Iemitsu (1 ep.)
event1992
top_panel_open
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.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down