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Kenichi Hagiwara

Kenichi Hagiwara

Birthday: 1950-07-26 | Place of Birth: Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Kenichi Hagiwara (born 26 July 1950 in Omiya, Saitama, Japan), also known as Sho-Ken, was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters and The Spiders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenichi Hagiwara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1999
Genroku Ryoran

as    Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

1996
Ceremonial Officiator

as    Ryuhei Oyamada

1992
The Triple Cross

as    Kanzaki

1991
Traffic Jam

as    Rinzo Fuji

1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood

as    Shiro Nonaka

1987
Night Train

as    Masahiko Tamura

1985
The Seburi Story

as    Hajime Kinoshita

1985
Capone Cries a Lot

as    Kaiemon

1985
Love Letter

as    Shoichi Takehara

1981
Summer of Demon

as    lemon

1980
Kagemusha

as    Katsuyori Takeda

1977
Village of Eight Gravestones

as    Tatsuya Terada

1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain

as    Sakuda