[KineJapan] Hagiwara Ken'ichi

[Desser, David M]

What a shame. Maratabi is Ichikaws’s unknown masterpiece and he was great in it

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On Mar 28, 2019, at 9:42 AM, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

News reports relate that the great actor Hagiwara Ken'ichi has died at age 68. Hagiwara first became famous as the lead singer of the Group Sounds band The Tempters, and soon began acting in film and television. On TV, he is most famous for starring in Kizudarake no tenshi (one of the great 70s dramas, directed by Fukasaku Kinji and others), as well as other shows like Taiyo ni hoero! and Zenryaku ofukuro-sama. On film, he was a favorite of Kumashiro Tatsumi and appeared in films directed by Fukasaku, Kurosawa Akira, Shinoda Masahiro, Gosha Hideo, Kudo Eiichi, Suzuki Seijun,  Shinji Aoyama​, and Ichikawa Kon. Ichikawa's Matatabi is a personal favorite of his films.

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