Hiroshi Akutagawa

was a Japanese stage and film actor and director. In his 30 years spanning career, he appeared in numerous stage productions and films by directors such as Shirō Toyoda, Tadashi Imai, Heinosuke Gosho, Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Ōshima.

Biography Hiroshi Akutagawa was born in Tokyo as the son of writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. and also started to appear in films, receiving the Mainichi Film Award for his performance in Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953).

In 1963, Akutagawa left Bungakuza and co-founded the "Kumo" theatre group together with Kyōko Kishida, Tsuneari Fukuda and others.

Akutagawa's younger brother was the composer Yasushi Akutagawa.

Filmography (selected) 1953: Where Chimneys Are Seen, dir. Heinosuke Gosho 1953: The Wild Geese, dir. Shirō Toyoda 1953: An Inlet of Muddy Water, dir. Tadashi Imai 1960: Night and Fog in Japan, dir. Nagisa Ōshima 1960: The Twilight Story, dir. Shirō Toyoda 1967: Portrait of Chieko, dir. Noboru Nakamura 1970: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan, dir. Masahiro Shinoda 1970: Tora! Tora! Tora!, dir. Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda 1970: Dodes'ka-den, dir. Akira Kurosawa