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name: "Hiroshi Kawaguchi"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 August 1936"
died: "17 November 1987"
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# Hiroshi Kawaguchi

## Identity

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hiroshi-kawaguchi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hiroshi-kawaguchi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0442733
- **TMDB ID:** 554323
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11478025
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Kawaguchi_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11478025, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/554323

Actor. Born 22 August 1936 in Tokyo, Japan. Died 17 November 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 August 1936, Tokyo, Japan
- **Died:** 17 November 1987
- **Also known as:** Хироси Кавагути
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Kawaguchi_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11478025, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/554323

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Floating Weeds*](https://film.one/film/floating-weeds.md) (84)

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## Biography

Hiroshi Kawaguchi was a Japanese film and television actor. Born in Tokyo on 22 August 1936, he trained at the Haiyuza acting institute after leaving Keio Gijuku High School and made his screen debut in 1956.

He appeared in more than fifty films, including *Giants and Toys* (1958) as Yosuke Nishi and *Floating Weeds* (1959) as Kiyoshi. His father, Matsutarō Kawaguchi, was a writer and executive at Daiei Film, the studio where Kawaguchi worked for much of his career. In 1960 he married actress Hitomi Nozoe.

Kawaguchi later became a television personality, appearing in series such as *Key Hunter* (1968–1973) and hosting the adventure programme *Kawaguchi Hiroshi Tankentai*. He died in Tokyo on 17 November 1987.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org, mydramalist.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Floating Weeds* (1959), Fi1m 84, as Kiyoshi — [page](https://film.one/film/floating-weeds.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Venus Wars* (1989), as Tao
- *The Big Chase* (1971), Actor
- *Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure* (1969), as Doguma
- *Key Hunter* (1968), series, as 吹雪一郎
- *The Great Wall* (1962), as Hsi Liang
- *The Venus' Tear* (1962), Actor
- *Closing Time* (1962), as Makoto Ubukata
- *雪の降る街に* (1962), Actor
- *Sudara Festival: I Understand, but I can't Stop* (1962), Actor
- *Black Lizard* (1962), as Jun Amemiya
- *Their Legacy* (1962), Actor
- *Wakai yatsura no kaidan* (1961), Actor
- *The Burdened Sisters* (1961), as Kenji
- *Buddha* (1961), as Ajashartu
- *A Wife Confesses* (1961), as Osamu Kôda
- *Refresher Course for Wives* (1961), Actor
- *Shin Jinsei Gekijo* (1961), Actor
- *Triangle Moods* (1961), as Gorô Shirai
- *Last-Ditch Glory* (1961), Actor
- *Les Mesdemoiselles* (1961), as Keiichi Sawai
- *Nocturne of a Woman* (1961), Actor
- *The Ginza Three Boys* (1961), as Yûji Takarai
- *Her Brother* (1960), as Hekiro
- *The Last Betrayal* (1960), Actor
- *Just Barely* (1960), Actor
- *Victory and Defeat* (1960), as Muneo Yamanaka
- *The Rockabilly Lady* (1960), as Akira Kuji
- *A Woman's Testament* (1960), Actor
- *The Grave Tells All* (1960), Actor
- *Across the Darkness* (1959), as Kunio Ishizuka
- *Floating Weeds* (1959), as Kiyoshi — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/floating-weeds.md)
- *Beauty the Enemy* (1959), as Tadao Shimizu
- *Various Flowers* (1959), Actor
- *Paper Pigeon* (1959), as Hideo Kawashibara
- *The Most Valuable Wife* (1959), as Saburo Mihara
- *Goodbye, Hello* (1959), as Kataoka
- *Disobedience* (1958), as Katsuya Sotozaki
- *Musume no boken* (1958), Actor
- *The Lowest Man* (1958), as Saburô Tateno
- *Giants and Toys* (1958), as Yosuke Nishi
- *Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko* (1958), Actor
- *Love River* (1958), Actor
- *The Loyal 47 Ronin* (1958), as Chikara Ôishi
- *Mother* (1958), as Eizô Yuasa
- *Shogun's Holiday* (1958), Actor
- *Chance Meeting* (1958), as Takeshi Koyanagi
- *Tokyo Eyes* (1958), Actor
- *On This Earth* (1957), as Heiichiro Okawa
- *Kisses* (1957), as Kinichi Miyamoto
- *The Betrothed* (1957), Actor
- *The Crowded Train* (1957), as Tamio Moroi
- *Bojô no kawa* (1957), Actor
- *Daiei Studio is Bustling* (1957), Actor
- *Yonjū-hassai no teikō* (1956), Actor
- *Tsukigata Hanpeita* (1956), as Sango Atobe
- *Training Ship of Yearning* (1956), Actor
- *Bridge of Japan* (1956), Actor
- *Studio wa ōsawagi* (1956), Actor
- *Asashio yushio* (1956), Actor
- *Punishment Room* (1956), as Katsumi Shimada
- *Sabakareru jūdai* (1956), Actor
- *A Rainbow at Every Turn* (1956), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Hiroshi Kawaguchi](https://film.one/media/person/3876999/gallery-ae29c2d4a8df.png) Hiroshi Kawaguchi — Q140779431, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Hiroshi_Kawaguchi%2C_1957.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![From L to R: Hitomi Nozoe, Hiroshi Kawaguchi in "Oyafuko Dōri" (1958) - publicity still (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/3876999/gallery-d2c0ed91640b.jpg) From L to R: Hitomi Nozoe, Hiroshi Kawaguchi in "Oyafuko Dōri" (1958) - publicity still (2014) — Daiei Motion Picture Company （大映株式会社）, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Oyafuko_D%C5%8Dri.1958.jpg/1280px-Oyafuko_D%C5%8Dri.1958.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hiroshi Kawaguchi](https://film.one/media/person/3876999/gallery-b058d0c9b706.jpg) Hiroshi Kawaguchi — Image via TMDB
- ![Hiroshi Kawaguchi](https://film.one/media/person/3876999/gallery-a96c2bef1414.jpg) Hiroshi Kawaguchi — Image via TMDB

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