Hisaya Morishige

Hisaya Morishige

Nacimiento : 1913-05-04, Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 2009-11-10

Historia

Hisaya Morishige (森繁久彌, Morishige Hisaya, May 4, 1913 – November 10, 2009) was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He became famous in films first for comedy roles, appearing in series such as the "Company President" (Shacho) and "Station Front" (Ekimae) series, produced by Toho. He appeared in nearly 250 films, both contemporary and jidaigeki. He was also famous on stage playing Tevye in the Japanese version of Fiddler on the Roof. He also appeared in television series and specials, and was the first guest on the television talk show Tetsuko's Room in 1975. He was long-time head of the Japan Actors Union. Among many honors, Morishige received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 1991.

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Hisaya Morishige

Películas

Doraemon en el mágico mundo de las aves
Doraemon en el Mágico Mundo de las Aves es una nueva aventura del gato robot en la que, junto a sus amigos, surca los aires de un fantástico mundo habitado por aves y hombres-pájaro.
La princesa Mononoke
Chief of Affairs (voice)
Tras sufrir el ataque de un monstruoso jabalí maldito, el joven Ashitaka emprende el camino en busca de la cura que detenga la infección. Mientras, los humanos están acabando con los bosques y los dioses convertidos en temibles bestias hacen todo lo posible por protegerlo encabezados por Mononoke, una princesa guerrera. Ashikata deberá escoger bando y decidir si ayudar a los hombres o las deidades intentando detener la maldición de su herida que se extiende por su cuerpo sin cuartel.
47 Ronin
Hyobu Chisaka
El joven noble Asano decide combatir a Kira, un viejo señor feudal que ha logrado su posición mediante actos injustos y corruptos. Con este fin, Asano se niega a pagar los tributos que Kira le reclama. Al conocer la decisión, Kira pone en marcha un plan para humillarle, empujando a Asano al harakiri (seppuku). Los samuráis que sirvieron a Asano, ahora marginados ronin, prepararán la venganza.
Tabaruzaka
Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western faction, he was instumental in establishing the Sat-Cho Alliance dreamed of by Sakamoto Ryoma. After the fall of the Tokugawa, Saigo rose to major prominence before falling in disfavor. In 1876 Saigo Takamori resigned from his government post and went back to Kagoshima. He founded a local military school and dissatisfied samurai gathered around him in large numbers. In late 1876 it came to an open conflict when samurai rebels raided and occupied ammunition and weapon depots of the central government. The samurai rebels urged and proclaimed Saigo Takamori as their leader. While the Tom Cruise movie fictionalized Saigo’s life story, this is history come to life in the most exciting rendition with an all-star cast that is not to be missed!
Surgical Designs in Flames
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Kukai
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined influence to establish the Shingon school during the Heian period in early 9th Century AD.
Adiós, Júpiter, Adiós
Earth Federation President
Mientras se realiza la extracción de agua de los casquetes polares de Marte, esculturas antiguas se descubren describiendo una nave extraterrestre que se estrelló contra Júpiter, posponiendo los planes de convertir Júpiter en un segundo Sol.
Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō
In collaboration with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
Fiddler on the Roof
Tevye
Special 50th anniversary recording of the Tokyo Imperial Theater production of the Fiddler on the Rood
The Longest Tunnel
Gensuke Kishida
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
The Imperial Navy
Naoki Hongo
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Port Arthur
Hirobumi Ito
La historia narra la batalla por la colina 203 durante la guerra ruso-japonesa en 1905. La colina fue capturado con la pérdida de muchas vidas en ambos lados, japoneses y rusos. La captura de la colina permitió al ejército japonés poner presión sobre la flota rusa del Pacífico, asegurando así la victoria japonesa, al mando del Almirante Togo , en la batalla naval siguiente.
The Rivals
The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
Sugata Sanshiro
Osho
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
Machi no Hi
Kurita
The Twilight Years
Shigezo Tachibana
A woman looks after her father in law.
Theater Of Life
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
Zatoichi en general
Constable Tobei
Vigésimo tercera de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Zatoichi se encuentra en su camino a una mujer embarazada que acaba de ser atacada por un bandido. Las cosas se complican y Zatoichi debe hacer de comadrona en ese momento, pero la mujer muere durante el parto, y Zatoichi se encarga de llevar el bebé a su familia. Una vez encuentra a la familia del bebé, descubre que la mujer embarazada llevaba 20 ryus que debía pagar al jefe de una banda para que su cuñada no fuera obligada a ingresar en un burdel.
Follow the Girls
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Senzo
Una joven que ha escapado de una institución se enamora de Tora-san. Él decide casarse con ella, pero su familia y la maestra de la joven se oponen al romance.
Travels of Lord Mito
Kômon Mito
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.
A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
Morita Tokunosuke
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Five Gents' Trick Book
Kutaro Iwato
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Could I But Live
Could I But Live
The Naked Executive
Kôshirô Hidaka
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a father.
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
Shûe Matsubayashi movie
Hail the 3 Gents
The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
喜劇 とんかつ一代
Kyusaku Goi
Ensemble comedy.
47 Ronin
Esta impresionante historia épica ha sido a veces etiquetada como la versión japonesa de "Lo Que El Viento Se Llevó". Chusha Ichikawa personifica a un señor feudal poderoso y despiadado que lucha contra el virtuoso y joven noble, Yuzo Kayama. Ichikawa encuentra una victoria parcial cuando engaña a Kayama y lo convence de hacerse el Hara Kiri. La venganza será realizada por los cuarenta y siete samuráis de Kayama. Basada en una leyenda japonesa venerable, la historia de Chushingura ha sido filmada en varias ocasiones, pero sólo la versión de 1941 (47 Ronin) estuvo a la altura de la versión de 1962, del gran director Hiroshi Inagaki.
This Madding Crowd
Professor
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
A Country Boss
Takeo Aihara
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
El final del verano
Isomura Eiichirou
La familia Kohayagawa se prepara para casar a la joven Noriko, la hija pequeña, mientras que su hermana Akiko, viuda y con dos hijos, recibe una propuesta de matrimonio de un hombre con una buena posición económica. El viejo patriarca Banpei se comporta, sin embargo, de forma curiosa: decide ir a visitar a su antigua amante, Tsune, actitud que su hija Fumiko le reprocha. El viudo Banpei sufre un repentino ataque pero recobra la salud y su hija renuncia a juzgarle.
Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
An Urban Affair
Kintaro Togura
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
The Masterless 47 – Part II
The Wayside Pebble
Shogo Aikawa
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.
The Angry Sea
Hikoichi
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
This Greedy Old Skin
Hikohachi Mukoyama
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.
The Adventures of Kantaro
Kantaro
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
続・社長太平記
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Hana no ren
Temptation on Glamour Island
Navy Captain Prince Tamehisa
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
社長太平記
Fifth entry in the Company President Series.
Jinsei Gekijo
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
The Undefeated Woman
The Undefeated Woman
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Munazuru
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Panda y la Serpiente Mágica
Narrator (voice)
"Hakujaden" es considerado el primer anime en color de la historia, una película que se adelanta en varios años a las primeras producciones animadas para televisión. Basada de una antigua leyenda china, "Hakujaden" explica el tormentoso amor entre dos jóvenes. Xu-Xian, cuando era un niño, se vio forzado a dejar libre a su mascota, una pequeña serpiente blanca. Lo que él no sabía es que esa serpiente es Bai-Niang, una joven diosa-serpiente, y ni mucho menos que ella estaba enamorada de él. Años más tarde, cuando Xu-Xian ya es adulto, Bai-Niang se transforma mediante la magia en humana y vuelve en busca de su amor. Pero el hechicero de la comunidad cree que ella es una bruja y manda desterrar a Xu-Xian para librarse de ellos. Entonces, Panda, el oso panda mascota de Xu-Xian, y Mimi parten en busca del chico para traerlo de vuelta a casa, liderando una manada de animales que quieren que el chico vuelva a su hogar y sea feliz junto a Bai-Niang.
Panda y la Serpiente Mágica
Xu-Xian / Fa-Hai / Panda / Dragon King / Catfish King
"Hakujaden" es considerado el primer anime en color de la historia, una película que se adelanta en varios años a las primeras producciones animadas para televisión. Basada de una antigua leyenda china, "Hakujaden" explica el tormentoso amor entre dos jóvenes. Xu-Xian, cuando era un niño, se vio forzado a dejar libre a su mascota, una pequeña serpiente blanca. Lo que él no sabía es que esa serpiente es Bai-Niang, una joven diosa-serpiente, y ni mucho menos que ella estaba enamorada de él. Años más tarde, cuando Xu-Xian ya es adulto, Bai-Niang se transforma mediante la magia en humana y vuelve en busca de su amor. Pero el hechicero de la comunidad cree que ella es una bruja y manda desterrar a Xu-Xian para librarse de ellos. Entonces, Panda, el oso panda mascota de Xu-Xian, y Mimi parten en busca del chico para traerlo de vuelta a casa, liderando una manada de animales que quieren que el chico vuelva a su hogar y sea feliz junto a Bai-Niang.
The Child Writers
Mr. Kawahara
The Hotelman's Holiday
Jihei Ikuno
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
Yoku
Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
The Shop Curtain
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
The Third President
Keitaro Asakawa
The fourth entry in the Company President Series
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
Assistant President
The Beauty Expert
Hadaka no Machi
The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
Snow Country
Imura
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
Jacks and Jills
Morishita
はりきり社長
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
The President Talks Bank
Zennosuke Tashiro
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
Called to the Stand
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. The victim is a woman who's said to have had sexual relations with the defendant. Four intertwined witnesses; a critic, Shirou's employee, a singer, and his wife, are all called to the stand. His destiny now lies in their hands.
Morishige's Honeymoon
Japanese comedy film.
The President's Boss
Zennosuke Tashiro
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
Such is Life
Danpei
Japanese drama film.
Tales of Ginza
Narrator (voice)
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.
Marital Relations
Ryukichi
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
Morishige no demakase shinshi
Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
Chutaro of Banba
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Yoshii
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
Shigemori Shigeo
Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
Mako Osorubeshi
Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Jirocho, the Hunted
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
Princess Finds Her Prince
Tokyo Profile
Mr. Maki
A human billboard and a shoeshine girl met a kid of five who got separated from her mother at a street of Ginza. They try to find a mother in a crowded town...
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Bot-chan
Akashatsu
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Her Captive Gamblers
Mole Alley
Yasugorō shusse
親馬鹿花合戦
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Tokyo Sweetheart
Akazawa
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Third Class Executives
Personnel Chief
1950s Japanese comedy.
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Ichiro Okamura
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then.
Koi no rantan
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mother, already settled, found about Reika's whereabouts, but won't acknowledge her daughter for fear of loosing her current status.
Bengawan Solo
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Pirates
___________
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
新遊侠伝
Koibito
Manager
Amakara chindōchū
Japanese comedy film.