Cast
Hisaya Morishige
Acting
Cast
Hisaya Morishige
Known for
Acting
Born
1913-05-04
From
Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died
2009-11-10
Also known as Хисая Морисигэ
Biography
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.
★8.3
MOVIE1997
Princess Mononoke
as Chief of Affairs (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1960
The Angry Sea
as Hikoichi
★7.0
MOVIE1957
The Unbalanced Wheel
★8.5
MOVIE1960
Life of a Country Doctor
★7.1
MOVIE2001
Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
as Professor Torino (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
MOVIE1957
Hadaka no Machi
★10.0
MOVIE1953
Jirocho's Home-Coming
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Jirocho, the Hunted
MOVIE1957
The Beauty Expert
★9.0
MOVIE1953
Her Captive Gamblers
★6.3
MOVIE1958
The Tale of the White Serpent
as Xu-Xian / Fa-Hai / Panda / Dragon King / Catfish King / Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1954
Mako Osorubeshi
★6.6
MOVIE1981
The Imperial Navy
as Naoki Hongo
MOVIE1957
Turtledove
★10.0
MOVIE1982
The Longest Tunnel
as Gensuke Kishida
MOVIE1957
Ujō
as Ujo Noguchi
MOVIE1952
Zoku santō jūyaku
★6.5
MOVIE1958
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
as Munazuru
MOVIE1956
All Sold Out
★10.0
MOVIE1972
Theater of Life
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Tale of a Carpenter
MOVIE1957
A Tale of Dung and Urine
as Ushinosuke Abe
★7.5
MOVIE1961
The End of Summer
as Isomura Eiichirou
★7.4
MOVIE1994
47 Ronin
as Hyobu Chisaka
MOVIE1983
Oddball Nippon
MOVIE1955
His Highness Surabaya
as Kyutaro Nagasogabe/Eiji Nagasogabe
★7.1
MOVIE1962
Chûshingura
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Mount Hakone
MOVIE1956
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
★10.0
MOVIE1965
We Will Remember
MOVIE1954
Geisha Konatsu
as Kawashima
MOVIE1952
Coward at Ganryu Island
MOVIE1966
Look Up, Noble One
as Hamaguchi
MOVIE1957
Jirochō gaiden: Haikagura no Santarō
★7.4
MOVIE1980
Port Arthur
as Hirobumi Ito
★10.0
MOVIE1965
Five Gents' Trick Book
as Kutaro Iwato
★7.7
MOVIE1964
Ken
as Mibu
★5.5
MOVIE1984
Sayonara Jupiter
as Earth Federation President
MOVIE1968
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Fortune
as Morita Tokunosuke
★8.0
MOVIE1966
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
as Tokunosuke Morita
★10.0
MOVIE1977
Sugata Sanshiro
as Osho
MOVIE1955
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
MOVIE1967
Campus in Front of a Train Station
as 森田徳之助
★9.0
MOVIE1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
★7.3
MOVIE1978
The Incident
as Kiyokawa
★6.7
MOVIE1957
Snow Country
as Imura
MOVIE1988
Goryokaku
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
★7.7
MOVIE1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as Senzo
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Shinibana
as Rokusaburō Aoki
MOVIE1997
Going West: to the West
as Neighbor Osamu
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Fox and Raccoon
as Tampei Nukada
★10.0
MOVIE1960
The Masterless 47
as Yoshio Oishi
★7.0
MOVIE1983
The Yoshida School
as Shigeru Yoshida
★9.5
MOVIE1984
Kukai
★10.0
MOVIE1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
as Chōtarō Ōtaka (President, Marubō Cosmetics)
MOVIE1985
Vendetta of Obligation
★6.7
MOVIE1972
Zatoichi at Large
as Constable Tobei
★6.7
MOVIE1956
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as Shozo
★5.6
MOVIE1955
Marital Relations
as Ryukichi
★6.5
MOVIE1953
Tokyo Profile
as Mr. Maki
★10.0
MOVIE1959
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
MOVIE1972
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
as Kanazawa
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Madame Aki
as Katayuki
★9.0
MOVIE1990
Sea of Wandering
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Tales of Ginza
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1967
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
as Keitarō Shōji (President, Shōji Tourism)
★8.0
MOVIE1974
Machi no Hi
as Kurita
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Talkative Company President
as Osamu Saotome
MOVIE1965
Retirement of a Train Engineer
★8.0
MOVIE1965
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
as Kyutarō Iwato (President, Iwato Construction)
★8.0
MOVIE1963
3 Gents In Hawaii
as Kazama Keinosuke (President)
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman Yoshii
★10.0
MOVIE1953
Yasugorō shusse
★8.0
MOVIE1970
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
as Saburo Amino
★7.0
MOVIE1961
An Urban Affair
as Kintaro Togura
MOVIE1960
The Wayside Pebble
as Shogo Aikawa
★5.0
MOVIE1955
Chutaro of Banba
★8.0
MOVIE1951
Bengawan Solo
★8.0
MOVIE1962
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
as Toku
★8.0
MOVIE1954
Last of the Wild Ones
MOVIE1958
The Undefeated Woman
★8.0
MOVIE1960
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
as Shirō Sawamura (Executive Director)
MOVIE1953
Princess Finds Her Prince
★7.0
MOVIE1962
This Madding Crowd
as Professor
★8.0
MOVIE1959
New Third-Class Executive
as Shirō Sawamura
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Three Generations of Company Presidents
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Travel Stories of a Company President
MOVIE1955
Nonki saiban
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Mole Alley
★9.0
MOVIE1960
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
as Shiro Sawamura
MOVIE1956
Morishige, where are you going?
as Shigetaro Mori
MOVIE1956
The President Talks Bank
as Zennosuke Tashiro
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Playboy President
as Misawa Einosuke
★7.5
MOVIE1973
The Twilight Years
as Shigezo Tachibana
★7.0
MOVIE1969
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
MOVIE1962
A Country Boss
as Takeo Aihara
★10.0
MOVIE1958
The Third President
as Keitaro Asakawa
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Theater of Life
★7.0
MOVIE1966
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten
★7.0
MOVIE1959
Temptation on Glamour Island
as Navy Captain Prince Tamehisa
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Third Class Executives
as Personnel Chief
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Playboy President: Part II
as Eisuke Misawa
MOVIE1961
The Preacher of Love
★10.0
MOVIE1953
Bot-chan
as Akashatsu
★8.0
MOVIE1962
Shimizu Port Salaryman
★9.0
MOVIE1963
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
as Heitarō Dōmoto (President)
★7.0
MOVIE1966
A Company President's Life Story
as Kurihara Yaichirō (Sunrise President)
★10.0
MOVIE1963
The Maid Story
★9.0
MOVIE1971
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
as Kanazawa
★7.0
MOVIE1968
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Keitarō Takayama
★9.0
MOVIE1961
Snow in the South Seas
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
★8.0
MOVIE1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Akazawa
★8.0
MOVIE1960
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
as Shirō Sawamura
★8.0
MOVIE1963
Aloha 3 Gents
as Keinosuke Kazama (Company President)
★10.0
MOVIE1955
Such is Life
as Danpei
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
★9.0
MOVIE1970
Five Gents and a Kuniang
as Amino Santarō
★9.0
MOVIE1958
The Hotelman's Holiday
as Jihei Ikuno
★10.0
MOVIE1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
★8.0
MOVIE1956
The President's Boss
as Zennosuke Tashiro
★10.0
MOVIE1964
Hot Spring Ghost
MOVIE1951
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
★7.5
MOVIE1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
as Ichiro Okamura
★9.0
MOVIE1955
House of Many Pleasures
as Denkichi Yoshida
★8.0
MOVIE1964
Could I But Live
★6.0
MOVIE1951
Koibito
as Manager
★6.5
MOVIE1962
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
MOVIE1956
Morishige's Honeymoon
★8.0
MOVIE1967
A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station
MOVIE1991
遊の人‐天下の御意見番 大久保彦左衛門‐
★7.0
MOVIE1972
Kigeki: Onna uridashimasu
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
MOVIE1979
The Rivals
★7.0
MOVIE1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
as Ōtaka Chōtarō
★10.0
MOVIE1986
Surgical Designs in Flames
★8.0
MOVIE1961
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
as Kintaro
★8.0
MOVIE1964
Hail the 3 Gents
as Reijiro Koizumi
★8.0
MOVIE1971
Follow the Girls
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Jacks and Jills
as Morishita
★9.0
MOVIE1967
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
as Keitarō Shōji (President, Shōji Tourism)
MOVIE1950
Amakara chindōchū
★9.0
MOVIE1968
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Keitaro Takayama (Takayama Trading President)
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Aces Wild
★10.0
MOVIE1960
This Greedy Old Skin
as Hikohachi Mukoyama
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Yoku
★9.0
MOVIE1964
The Naked Executive
as Kôshirô Hidaka
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Shin kitsune to tanuki
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Five Gents on the Spot
as Yaichiro Kurihara
★10.0
MOVIE1951
Pirates
★7.0
MOVIE1976
Two Iida
as Riichiro Sugawa
MOVIE1953
親馬鹿花合戦
★10.0
MOVIE1962
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Called to the Stand
MOVIE1952
Asu wa Nichiyōbi
MOVIE1983
Fiddler on the Roof
as Tevye
★10.0
MOVIE1959
Flower Shop Curtain
MOVIE1951
新遊侠伝
★10.0
MOVIE1964
3 Gents in the Snow Country
★9.0
MOVIE1958
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
MOVIE1961
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
MOVIE1959
Bringing Up Husbands
MOVIE1954
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
as Shigemori Shigeo
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Shop Curtain
★7.0
MOVIE1965
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
as Morita Tokunosuke
MOVIE1959
The Adventures of Kantaro
as Kantaro
★7.0
MOVIE1963
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Koi no rantō
★9.0
MOVIE1963
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
as Kyusaku Goi
★7.0
MOVIE1969
Travels of Lord Mito
as Kômon Mito
★10.0
MOVIE1964
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Landlady
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Assistant President
MOVIE1955
Morishige is a Fake Gentleman
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Child Writers
as Mr. Kawahara
MOVIE1985
The 47 Ronin (Part 2): No Return
MOVIE1985
The 47 Ronin (Part 1): Indignation
★7.0
MOVIE1962