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Acting

Hideji Ōtaki

Career: Active from 1964 to 2010, busiest in 1977 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 7
top three billing

Average score: 70/100

Highest rated: The Funeral
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 37 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Hideji Ōtaki Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.6, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.9, average 2.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Political Intrigue 3
Historical Tragedy 2
Feudal Japan 2
Character Study 2
Epic Scale 2
Japanese Drama 2
Social Commentary 2
Slice of Life 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

101

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

4 titles · average score 64

Dearest

61

as Gorô Ôura

Haru's Journey

68

as Shigeo Kanemoto

Angel's Share

TV show · as Hirokichi Sakashita

A School Behind Bars

as Akio Sasaki

2000s

16 titles · average score 69

Tokyo Air Raid

TV show · as Oba Hiroto (present)

Kabei: Our Mother

82

as Kabe

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

63

as Company president Hashiba

The Pride of the Temp

77

TV show · as 宮部

Memories of Tomorrow

76

as Usaburou Sugawara

Murder of the Inugami Clan

66

as Oyama Shinkan

Casshern

66

as General Kamijo

Worst by Chance

as Pawnbroker

Spy Sorge

63

as Duke Kinmochi Sai-onji

Golden Bowl

TV show · as Michio Tanoue

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

TV show

Dora-heita

64

as Imamura

1990s

10 titles · average score 71

Eighth Shogun Yoshimune

TV show · as Tokugawa Mitsusada [Yoshimune's father]

Kura

TV show

Pro Golfer Oribe Kinjiro

as Shuzo Katsuta

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

as Matsui Yasuyuki

Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

86

as Hotel General Manager

Noh Mask Murders

as Priest Nire

Tistou the Green Thumb

as Moustache (voice)

Tales of a Golden Geisha

63

as Chijiwa (uncredited) / Chijiwa

Tales of the Bizarre

TV show

Heaven and Earth

66

as Matasaburo Tachibana

1980s

26 titles · average score 73

Music Box

as Kyohei Imazato

Black Rain

76

as Dr. Fujita

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

55

as Kanshi Oda / Masayuki Orida

The Silk Road

66

as Narrator (voice)

Tokyo Blackout

as Otawara Gonzo

A Taxing Woman

75

as Tsuyuguchi

Gonza the Spearman

70

as Chūtabei Iwaki

Tampopo

88

as Rich Old Man

The Funeral

88

as Shinkichi Amamiya

From the Northern Country

85

TV show · as Seikichi Kitamura (北村清吉)

Station

67

as Aiba

Kagemusha

84

as Masakage Yamagata

1970s

37 titles · average score 67

Haguregumo

TV show

The Fall of Ako Castle

70

as Yamada

Special Crime Investigation Front

TV show · as Detective Funamura

Mount Hakkoda

67

as Colonel Nakabayashi

The War in Space

55

as Dr. Matsuzawa

Suddenly, Like a Storm

as Teacher Inagi

Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal

as Kenjuro Kamoshita

Manhunt

64

as Tonami Yoshinori

Brother and Sister

as Akaza

The Inugami Family

69

as Priest Oyama

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

78

as Abbot Jikei

City of Beasts

as Tadayoshi Kanamori

1960s

7 titles · average score 65

The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

as Saeki

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

TV show · as Hojo Tokisada

A Chain of Islands

as Karasawa

The Witness' Chair

as Prosecutor Takase

Black Sun

65

as Old Man at the Junk Shop

Akō Rōshi

TV show · as Okabayashi Mokunosuke

A Wandering Gambler

as Aihara (Kawamura's henchman; boxing gym trainer)

1950s

1 title

Break Down that Wall

as Judge A