"Higeoyaji was born in Kanda, he's prematurely bald and prematurely gray and frequently appears as a sympathetic private detective, in fact, he's the oldest face in my works. But he was actually born in Itami, Osaka and he isn't even an original." As he confesses in his book "I Am A Manga Artist", this popular character, who is indispensable to Tezuka Osamu's Manga is in fact based on a doodle that one of his good friends in middle school drew of his father. Tezuka Osamu began borrowing this caricature from the time of "Old Man Detective". This character was brought to life in the world of Tezuka Osamu's Manga. He is short-tempered and rough. But is also warm-hearted and has a burning sense of justice. Continuously playing the role of a spirited if not particularly sophisticated middle-aged man, Higeoyagi's appearances have not stopped with the role of detective, he has also displayed his talents in many famous performances. He has been the boss of a sushi restaurant, a father desperately attempting to recover the trust of his son and a pickpocket who takes marked pride in his work. A younger version of the character with jet-black hair can be spotted in "The Green Cat".
List of the works
COMIC
1947
Golden Bat (as Count Salad)
1948
The Mysterious Underground Man (as Bill)
1948
Magic House (Dr.Higeta)
1948
The Jungle Kingdom (as Sand Witch)
1948
Q-chan's Arrest length
1948
Four Fencers of Forest (as Braton of a bandit)
1948
The Musked Adventure Kid (as the manservant)
1948
King Rocket (as Dr. Kamo)
1948
The world 1000 years After (as the King Boro)
1948
Tuberculoses
1948
Secret Ground of the Shari River (as Frank)
1948
Lost World (as the privete investigator)
1949
The Pistol Angel (as one of the crowd and the shipmaster)
1949
Man with a Tail (Frank Alan)
1949
Metropolis (as the inbertigator)
1950
Golden City (as the passenger on the ship)
1950
The Wonderful Journey
1950
The Plain of Abusegahara (as the barbar)
1950
Strange Travel of Dr. Tiger (as King Petakon)
1950
Fire of Tutelary God
1950
Manga University (as the detective)
1950
Ashiato Hotspring
1951
Captain Atom
1951
Next World
1951
The new volume Moon World Gentleman (as the old man)
1951
Fossil Island (as the rock)
1952
Astro Boy / Gaseous Beings
1952
Astro Boy / Frankenstein
1952
Skyscraper Kid (as the manager)
1952
Man From Mars
1952
The Adventure of Rock
1952
People with Pistols on Their Head (Nurete Awabei)
1953
Astro Boy / The Red cat
1953
Astro Boy / Sea Serpent Island
1953
Astro Boy / Flying Skyscraper
1953
X-Point on the South Pacific (as Sam Yudo)
1953
The Monster on the 38th Parallel
1954
Astro Boy / Adventure on Mars
1954
Astro Boy / Cobalt
1954
Astro Boy / Fuhrer ZZZ
1954
The Devil of the Earth
1954
Wonder-kun (as Kuzuoyaji)
1954
Benkei (as the sailor)
1955
Astro Boy / Lightning Man
1955
Astro Boy / Guernica
1955
Astro Boy / Rejuvenating Gas
1955
Astro Boy / The Yellow House
1955
The age of Great Floods (The former doctor who escaped from jail)
1956
Astro Boy / Atlas
1956
Astro Boy / Midoro Swamp
1956
Astro Boy / The Robot Bombs
1956
Lion Books / The Next Human Beings(as Kuroki)
1956
Lion Books / The Green Cat
1956
Oh! What Are We Three?
1956
The Rainbow Fortress (as the police detective)
1957
Astro Boy / Black Looks
1957
Astro Boy / Alien's Ball
1957
Lion Books / The Crazy Border (as the customer of the club)
1957
Lion Books / Multiple-Eyed Devil (as the customer at a station)
1957
Lion Books / Bullet Hole in the Wilderness (as the dentist)
1957
The day when seal taking withered
1957
Miniyon (as count Rotario)
1957
The Earth War (as Don Taro's uncle)
1958
Astro Boy / Cruciform
1958
Astro Boy / The Temma Race
1958
Astro Boy / Count Bat
1958
The Three Who Glimpse The Future (as Dorokusa)
1959
Astro Boy / The Eyes of Christ
1959
Astro Boy / The Secret of the Egyptian Conspirators
1959
Astro Boy / The Deep-underground Tank
1959
Merchant of Venice (as the chief judge)
1959
Doodle Cyclopedia
1959
My memory
1960
Astro Boy / Space Leopard
1960
Astro Boy / Transparent Giant
1960
Astro Boy / Day to Remember
1960
Astro Boy / Uran
1960
Astro Boy / His Highness Dead cross
1960
Secret Order No.3 (as Inuoka)
1960
Fire Valley (as the orner of a bar)
1961
Astro Boy / Plant Man
1961
Astro Boy / The Robot Buron X
1961
Astro Boy / Hot Dog Corps
1961
Astro Boy / Teh Third Magician
1961
Ant and The Giant (as the journalist)
1962
Astro Boy / Space Parasites
1962
Astro Boy / Robot Land
1962
SHIKYOYAMAENGI Picture scroll
1962
Blue Shadow Behind The Backnet (as a painting of a hanging picture)
1963
Astro Boy / The Demon Bees
1963
Astro Boy / The Devil's Balloon
1963
S.F.Fancy Free / The inch insect
1963
The Eye in the Building (as the detective)
1964
Astro Boy / The Last Day of Earth
1964
Astro Boy / The Grafted Brain
1964
The Great Zeo (as the minister)
1964
Story of Animals:Chapter of Sanma
1965
Astro Boy / Roboid
1965
Astro Boy / Robio and Robiet
1965
Astro Boy / The Blue Knight
1965
Astro Boy / Heroes of Tezuka Osamu Manga
1965
Astro Boy / Stolen Astro Boy
1965
Jungle Emperor Leo & Higeoyaji
1965
Amazing Three (as the fisherman)
1966
Astro Boy / Jinmeniwa
1966
Astro Boy / Resurrection of Astro Boy
1966
Flying Ben (as the private investigator)
1967
Astro Boy / The Treasures of Zolomon
1967
Astro Boy / Chronicles of Astro Boy (Shirohige,etc.)
1968
Astro Boy / The Man Who Returned From Mars
1970
The Crater / The Mask of Tomoe (as the toy company)
1970
Gachaboi'recrcond of on generation
1971
Let's expel pollution From this year
1971
Zephyrus (as the pesant)
1972
Lion Books / Mother River (as the staff of the XYZ TV)
1972
Lion Books / The March Covered with Mud (as the journalist)
1973
Lion Books / The Distant Planet (as the professor of Tokyo University)
1973
Black Jack / Miyuki and Ben (as the policeman)
1973
Black Jack / Tale of a Snowy Night (as the releif party)
1973
The Travels of Lolo (as the customer in the exposition of made in Hokkaido)
1973
Microid S (as the vagabond)
1973
The Euphrates Tree (as the detective)
1974
Black Jack / Lost Memory (as the owner of Tokiwa apartment)
1974
Black Jack / Ashes and Diamonds (as the old man Matsukata)
1974
Black Jack / Sinking Woman (as the municipal officer)
1974
Black Jack / A Wrong Diagnosis (as the patient)
1974
Black Jack / Two Loves (as the customer in a sushi bar)
1974
The Three-eyed One / Mystery of the Third Eye (as rhe owner of Rairaiken)
1974
The Three-eyed One / Underground Dungeon of the Jumyo in Residence (as the owner of Rairaiken)
1974
The Jumbo (as the trading company employee)
1975
Black Jack / Stradivarius (as the passenger on a plane)
1975
Black Jack / The Cat and Shozo (as the doctor)
1975
Black Jack / The Boy with the Belly (as the peofessor of M University)
1975
Black Jack / Swindler Apprentice (as Dr. Yabui)
1975
The Three-eyed One / Mystery of the Three-Eyed Family (as the owner of Rairaiken)
1975
The Three-eyed One / Secretin Glebe (as the owner of Rairaiken)
1975
The Three-eyed One / The Flying Saucer (as the owner of Rairaiken)
1975
Astro Boy / Astro Boy II
1976
It is Difficult Though Understands
1976
Black Jack / Race Against Time (as the resident of a city)
1976
Black Jack / U-18 knew (as the patient)
1976
Black Jack / Vibrations (as the passenger on a bullet train)
1976
Black Jack / Burglary
1976
Black Jack / Lost Money (as the passenger on a train)
1976
The Three-eyed One / Seven Mysteries of seven-snake temple
1976
Astro Boy / Astro Boy Fights with Computer (as the Atom's Classteacher)
1976
Horror Tales of Yotsuya (as the doctor)
1976
MW/the bar master
1977
Black Jack / There were Two Films (as Nozaki Mari)
1977
Black Jack / The Disowned Son (as father)
1977
Black Jack / The three-legged race (as Shogo's father)
1977
The Three-eyed One / Mysterious Floating Debris (as the owner of Rairaiken)
1977
Car Help Number, This is JAF
1978
Black Jack / The Changeing (as the Chief Judge)
1978
Black Jack / Light Fingers (as Tetsu)
1978
Black Jack / Callit Life (as the condoctor on the train)
1978
Car help Number110, This is JAF
1979
NEC Advertisment
1979
Tezuka Osamu on American Comics
1980
Astro Boy / The Doll of Spaceman
1980
Astro Boy (The Guardian Deity Cat)
1981
Rainbow Parakeet / Shuzenji Story (as Fuwata Tsugihagi)
1981
Rainbow Parakeet / R.U.R (as the puppeteer)
1982
Rainbow Parakeet / Othello (as the face of butterfly)
1982
Rabbit House 2001
1982
Volcanic Eruption (as the primary-shcool principal)
1982
SUNTORY Draft beer
1982
The 21st General Assembly of the Japanese Association of Medical Science
1982
Short Aravesque (Cover)
1983
This is what's going to happen in 1983
1986
Atom Cat
1988
History of the National High School Baseball Championship
