Hideaki Nitani

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title: "Hideaki Nitani" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["japanese-male-actors", "1930-births", "2012-deaths", "actors-from-kyoto-prefecture", "doshisha-university-alumni", "deaths-from-pneumonia-in-japan"] description: "Japanese actor" topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideaki_Nitani" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese actor ::

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Field	Value
name	Hideaki Nitani
native_name	二谷 英明
native_name_lang	jpn
image	Hideaki Nitani.jpg
caption	Hideaki Nitani
birth_date
birth_place	Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
death_date
death_place	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
occupation	Actor
years_active	1957–1992
spouse	Yumi Shirakawa (1964–2012, his death)
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| name = Hideaki Nitani | native_name = 二谷 英明 | native_name_lang = jpn | image =Hideaki Nitani.jpg | imagesize = | caption =Hideaki Nitani | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Kyoto Prefecture, Japan | death_date = | death_place = Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1957–1992 | spouse = Yumi Shirakawa (1964–2012, his death) | website = | awards = Hideaki Nitani was a Japanese actor.

Career

Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Nitani attended Doshisha University but quit before graduating. He first worked as an announcer at Nagasaki Broadcasting Company, but in 1956 made his debut as an actor at Nikkatsu. he soon became a staple in Nikkatsu Action movies, often playing the second lead, but sometimes starring in his own films. He is probably best known abroad for his role in Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter. Nitani left Nikkatsu in 1971 and moved to television, where he starred in the Tokusō Saizensen police detective series, which ran for ten years between 1977 and 1987.

Nitani married the actress Yumi Shirakawa and their daughter, Yurie Nitani, is also an actress. He died of pneumonia on 7 January 2012, at age 81.

Selected filmography

Film

• I Am Waiting (1957)
• Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)
• Underworld Beauty (1958)
• Voice Without a Shadow (1958)
• Kurenai no Tsubasa (1958)
• Young Breasts (1958)
• My Second Brother (1959)
• Kenju burai-chō Denkō Setsuka no Otoko (1960)
• Man with a Shotgun (1961)
• Red Handkerchief (1964)
• Asia-Pol Secret Service (1966)
• Tokyo Drifter (1966)
• Massacre Gun (1967)
• Yogiri yo Kon'yamo Arigatō (1967)
• Retaliation (1968)
• The Sands of Kurobe (1968) as Odagiri
• Men and War Part I (1970)
• Gang Warfare (1972)
• Submersion of Japan (1973)
• Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974)
• Sakura no Kinoshita de (1989)

Television

• Mighty Jack (1968)
• Tokusō Saizensen (特捜最前線) (1977–1987)
• Nobunaga: King of Zipangu (1992), as Hirate Masahide

References

References

1. "Nitani Hideaki". Kōdansha.
2. "Haiyū Nitani Hideaki-san shikyo". 47News.
3. "戦争と人間". eiga.com.
4. (1 November 2003). "The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953". Stone Bridge Press.

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