Etsushi Takahashi

Etsushi Takahashi was a Japanese actor from Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture. Takahashi often worked with Kihachi Okamoto and Satsuo Yamamoto.
After graduating from Rikkyo University, Takahashi joined NHK acting school. In 1964, he joined Bungakuza Theatre Company's acting school and became an official member in 1967. In the same year, he gave his film debut with Watashi Machigatterukashira?. He received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1968.
He appeared in Onihei's Detective Records, although he was fighting against cancer, and the film became his final film appearance.

Selected filmography

Film

Watashi Machigatterukashira?, KoikeJapan's Longest Day, Masataka IdaThe Human Bullet The Affair Kill!, HanjiOne Day at Summer's End, tetsuyaRed Lion, IchinoseEros + Massacre, Jun TsujiMen and War, GodaiBattle of Okinawa, Yokichi KayaZatoichi at Large, Denjuro SagaraTabi no Omosa, Daizo KimuraHanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? Kinkanshoku, Jotaro FurugakiFumō Chitai Shogun's Samurai, Izu-no-kami Matsudaira NobutsunaDer Kaiser ist Nicht am August Blue Christmas, SawakiNihon no Fixer, Masaki KagaShosetsu Yoshida Gakko, Hayato IkedaReturn from the River Kwai, OzawaThe River with No Bridge, IsedaEast Meets West, Kimura Settsu no KamiOnihei's Detective Records, Sashima Tadasuke

Television dramas

Ten to Chi to, Usami SadakatsuHaru no Sakamichi, Kuroda NagamasaKey Hunter, HimuroShinsho Taikōki, Oda NobunagaG-Men '75, Daitokai Tatakai no Hibi, MaejimaThe Yagyu Conspiracy, Izu-no-kami Matsudaira NobutsunaHissatsu Shimainin, ShinmatsuThe Unfettered Shogun, Saigu KeisaiOshin, Tanokura HitoshiTaiyō ni Hoero! Hissatsu Shikirinin, ToranosukeSanbiki ga Kiru!, Hirata KanbeiAsami Mitsuhiko Series Onihei Hankachō, Sashima TadasukeKasaga no Tsubone, Sanada YukimuraTaiheiki, Momonoi Tadatsune