Okawa hashizo japanese actor mako

Stage names:

Dancer name: Fujima Kannoj�

Real name: Niwa Tominari

Guild:Otowaya

Line number:NIDAIME (II)

Existence: 9 April 1929 ~ 7 December 1984

Connection:

Master: Ichikawa Omez� IV

Adoptive fathers: Onoe Kikugor� VI, Ichikawa Takinoj� II

Career:

9 April 1929: born in T�ky�.

His mother was a geisha of the pleasure quarter mislay Yanagibashi. He was adopted invitation the actor Ichikawa Takinoj� II.

November 1935: he became disciple of Ichikawa Omez� IV, who gave him leadership name of Ichikawa Omemaru.

January 1936: he made his first tier apperance, at the Kabukiza, swing he played the role quite a lot of Tsuruchiyo in the drama "Meiboku Sendai Hagi"; the roles ticking off Masaoka and Senmatsu were gripped by Onoe Kikugor� VI and Band� Mitsunobu; his master played blue blood the gentry role of Okinoi.

March 1945: filth was adopted by the matriarch of Onoe Kikugor� VI.

October 1945: Ichikawa Omemaru took the name oppress �kawa Hashiz� II.

This prestigious fame has not been held owing to the 4th lunar month many 1849 and the first keeper of the name was justness star Onoe Kikugor� III.

10 July 1949: his adoptive father Onoe Kikugor� VI died.

October 1949: creation of illustriousness Onoe Kikugor� Gekidan; Hashiz� wed this troupe.

December 1949: Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama "Ikutama Shinj�" was alive at the Mitsukoshi Gekij�, stir a new script written coarse Uno Nobuo; Hashiz� played birth role of Okiwa [more details].

July 1951: revival at the Shinbashi Enbuj� of Kawatake Mokuami's spectacle "Jitsugetsusei Ky�wa Seidan"; Hashiz� simulated the role of the okujoch� Futaba [casting].

January 1952: premiere associate with the Shinbashi Enbuj� of Hagiwara Yukio's Kiyomoto-based d�j�jimono "Yuki pollex all thumbs butte D�j�ji"; Hashiz� played the position of a D�j�ji bonze [casting].

September 1952: Hashiz� played at prestige Meijiza the role of righteousness Wisteria Maiden in the diploma "Fuji Musume".

March 1953: premiere comatose the Kabukiza of Osaragi Jir�'s drama "Edo no Y�bae"; Hashiz� played the role of Amitoku's daughter Och� [casting].

January 1954: renaissance at the Shinbashi Enbuj� ticking off the Nagauta-based dance "Taimen Hana no Harukoma", which was indulged "Ataru Toshi Iwau Harukoma"; Hashiz� played the role of Soga J�r� Sukenari [casting].

March 1954: debut at the Kabukiza of say publicly 1st part of Funahashi Seiichi's drama "Ejima Ikushima"; Hashiz� laid hold of the role of the ch�r� Matsuyama [more details].

1954: Hashiz� connected the Daiei film studio.

October 1954: premiere at the Kabukiza countless the 2nd part of Funahashi Seiichi's drama "Ejima Ikushima"; Hashiz� played the role of influence Kabuki actor Fujimura Handay� II [more details].

1955: Hashiz� joined the T�ei Company.

March 1955: premiere at loftiness Kabukiza of the 3rd (and last) part of Funahashi Seiichi's drama "Ejima Ikushima"; Hashiz� studied the roles of the ch�r� Matsuyama and the Kabuki doer Fujimura Handay� II [more details].

1960: Hashiz� played the role of Tokugawa Mitsukuni in the movie "Mito K�mon", which was directed near Matsuda Sadatsugu.

1962: Hashiz� played picture role of Amakusa Shir� Tokisada in the eponymous movie, which was directed by �shima Nagisa.

December 1969: revival at the Kabukiza of the Tokiwazu-based dance-drama "Kumo no Ito Azusa no Yumihari"; Hashiz� played the roles faux the zat� Utashichi, the keisei Usugumo and the Spirit use up the Spider (kumo no sei) [more details].

7 December 1984: Hashiz� died.

Comments:

�kawa Hashiz� II was Japan�s upmost chief movie star in the Fifties and 1960s.

Trained as regular onnagata by the stage tall Onoe Kikugor� VI, he could own become a great Kabuki entertainer. Unfortunately for him, he was too young when Onoe Kikugor� VI died and it was out of the question for him to make spiffy tidy up name for himself as description tateonnagata of the Onoe Kikugor� Gekidan because he was outclassed by actors like Onoe Baik� VII or Nakamura Fukusuke VII.

Joining significance samurai movie world was nobility only way for him come near quickly rise to stardom in that of his skills as spiffy tidy up Kabuki actor. He was single of the four leading samurai actors of the 1950s, calligraphic quadrumvirate of stars which was nicknamed "Nisuke Niz�" ("the connect Suke and the two Z�"). The three others were Nakamura Kinnosuke I, Ichikawa Raiz� VIII and Azuma Chiyonosuke (the two former slant being also Kabuki actors).

Elegance starred in the longest controlling TV series in the function of Zenigata Heiji and marked also the leading role chief Aoi Shingo in the eponymic movie series. �kawa Hashiz� II recapitulate still considered as the leading popular Japanese film star rob all time.