1939-05-08 Tokyo, Japan
Keiichirō Akagi (赤木 圭一郎), born Chikahiro Akatsuka (赤塚 親弘) was a Japanese actor. Akagi appeared in over 26 films in his short three-year career. Kenju burai-chō series and The Call of the Foghorn are Akagi's notable films. In 1958, he joined the Nikkatsu company. He landed the lead role for the first time in 1959 film Age of Nudity directed by Seijun Suzuki. In 1960, Akagi won Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. Akagi was one of the box office hitter of Nikkatsu company alongside Yujiro Ishihara and Akira Kobayashi. At around 12:20 PM on February 14, 1961, during a lunch break while shooting Gekiryū ni Ikiru Otoko, where he served as a replacement for injured Yūjirō Ishihara, Akagi was driving a go-cart brought by a salesman in the Nikkatsu studio but spun out of control and crashed into a steel door of a large tool warehouse at a speed of more than 60 km/h. He regained consciousness for a time, but on February 20 he fell into a coma again and died at 7:50 AM on February 21 of a subdural hematoma associated with a fracture of the cracked frontal bone, at the young age of 21. At the time, some of his family conceded to his funeral in the Soto Zen religion at the Dai-enji Temple in Suginami, Tokyo. Later on, his cremated ashes were moved to the Head Temple Taisekiji in Fujinomiya.
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アゲイン | 1984-02-18 | |
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俺の血が騒ぐ | 1961-01-09 | |
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紅の拳銃 | Katsumi Nakada | 1961-02-11 |
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打倒 ノックダウン | 1960-03-20 | |
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海の情事に賭けろ | 1960-09-17 | |
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幌馬車は行く | 1960-10-22 | |
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拳銃無頼帖 明日なき男 | Ryuji of quick shots | 1960-12-03 |
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鉄火場の風 | 1960-01-16 | |
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男の怒りをぶちまけろ | 1960-06-18 | |
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拳銃無頼帖 電光石火の男 | 1960-05-14 | |
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拳銃無頼帖 抜き射ちの竜 | Ryuji Kenzaki | 1960-02-14 |
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拳銃無頼帖 不敵に笑う男 | Ryūshirō Dan | 1960-08-06 |
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霧笛が俺を呼んでいる | 1960-07-09 | |
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狂った脱獄 | Guard Uchida | 1959-04-08 |
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ゆがんだ月 | Hayakawa | 1959-07-28 |
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若い傾斜 | 1959-06-30 | |
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素ッ裸の年令 | Ken | 1959-09-07 |
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拳銃0号 | 1959-04-28 | |
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街が眠る時 | 1959-05-06 | |
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清水の暴れん坊 | Kenji Togawa | 1959-09-27 |
