Name
Kinya Kitaoji
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1943-02-23 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Biography
Early life:
He was born in Kyoto, son of jidaigeki film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ⅱ in Tokyo.
Acting career:
Kin'ya made his debut with his father in the 1956 Toei film Oyakodaka in the role of Katsu Kaishū. He is a contemporary of, and was taken to be a rival of, Hiroki Matsukata, who was also the son of a famous actor (Jūshirō Konoe). In 1964, Kin'ya made his first appearance on stage in Cyrano de Bergerac.
The 1960s and 1970s saw him in many contemporary roles. He appeared in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as well as Karei naru Ichizoku. The title role in the 1975 film Takehisa Yumeji was his.
On television, Kitaōji portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in the Nippon Television show of the same name. A major historical role was Sakamoto Ryōma in the year-long prime-time NHK Taiga drama Ryōma ga Yuku (1968). He landed the title role in the long-running cop show Zenigata Heiji, set in the Edo period. In the 1985 twelve-hour New Year special Fūun Yagyū Bugeichō, he played Yagyū Jūbei, and in the following year's special, he portrayed both Tokugawa Yoshimune and Yagyū Shinrokurō. The role of another shogun fell to him in the following new year as TV Tokyo tapped him to play Tokugawa Iemitsu. Kin'ya returned to NHK for the 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune as Date Terumune, father of title character Date Masamune.
Another role he took had been created by his father. Saotome Mondonosuke was the title character in the series Gozonji! Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko. It ran from 1988 to 1994 on TV Asahi. His father, Ichikawa Utaemon, had appeared in numerous films as Mondonosuke.
Kin'ya reprised the part of Miyamoto Musashi in the 1990 New Year's special. Toshirō Mifune had portrayed Musashi in the earlier film, also based on the Eiji Yoshikawa story, that had won an Academy Award. He returned to the New Year's special in 1996, again as the famous swordsman, in Tokugawa Kengōden Sore kara no Musashi.
His first portrayal of Ōishi Kuranosuke was in the 1996 Chūshingura. He took up the role again in 2004 for the NHK Saigo no Chūshingura and in 2007, in the New Year special Chūshingura Yōzei-in no Inbō. Other historical roles from the Sengoku period include Azai Nagamasa, Saitō Dōsan, and Yamamoto Kansuke. In addition to historical parts, he appeared in fictional series. His portrayal of Ogami Ittō in the Lone Wolf and Cub ( Kozure 2) Which was a series for Asahi TV in Japan is representative of these appearances.
In 2008, Kitaōji revisited the role of Katsu Kaishū in the Taiga drama Atsuhime. He had portrayed Katsu in his 1956 debut.
He won the award for best actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Fire Festival and Haru no kane. Kitaōji played one of the lead roles in Hideo Nakata's psychological thriller film The Incite Mill.
In recent times, Kitaōji voices the Hokkaido-inu character of "Father" in SoftBank Mobile's White Family advertising campaign.
Known For
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While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a politi...
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- 1957 Shadow Over Fuji
- 1962 Keepers of Order
- 1958 Kingdom of Youth as Yamanaka Shikanoske
- 1969 Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Soji Okita
- 2010 The Incite Mill as Yoshi Ando
- 1981 Abandoned
- 1969 Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator as Takeo
- 1997 The Peking Man as Kin'ya Kitaôji
- 2018 がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～ as 西條征士郎(さいじょう せいしろう)
- 1985 Spring Bell as Rokuheita Narumi
- 1985 Fire Festival as Tatsuo
- 1995 Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
- 2009 Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
- 1993 Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
- 1977 Mount Hakkoda as Captain Kanda
- 2012 Asura as Monk
- 2014 Sakura Housara
- 2013 淋しい狩人
- 1962 Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
- 1971 A Woman Called En
- 1973 Rise, Fair Sun as Asao
- 1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Tamotsu Matsumura
- 1991 Dohten
- 2023 THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY as Saitō Dōsan
- 1985 The Second Is a Christian as Eiji
- 1962 Genkuro Yoshitsune
- 1967 River of Forever
- 1992 Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
- 1978 Winter's Flower as Michio Sakata
- 2010 Eternal First Love as Yuichi Makibara
- 1982 Future War 198X as Wataru Mikumo (voice)
- 1978 Monument to Holy Service
- 1958 Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
- 2022 さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル 塩屋岬いわき殺人事件
- 2010 Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
- 2014 Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
- 1975 Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru as Yumeji Takehisa
- 1970 Will to Conquer
- 2010 Sakurada Gate Incident
- 1978 Shag
- 2008 Sushi King Goes to New York as Gengoro
- 1984 Zero as Jiro Horikoshi
- 1977 The Alaska Story as Frank Yasuda
- 1978 Glowing Autumn
- 1975 Gambling Den Heist as Takeshi Kiyomoto
- 1964 Wolves, Pigs & Men as Sabu, the third brother
- 1974 Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
- 1968 The Day the Sun Rose
- 2011 The Last Revenge as Tesshu Yamaoka
- 1965 Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as 松平三郎元信（後の徳川家康）
- 2013 Legal High SP as Isao Teshigawara
- 1988 The Notorious Bored Samurai as Mondosuke
- 1988 The Notorious Bored Samurai 2 as Mondonosuke Saotome
- 1989 The Notorious Bored Samurai 3 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1990 The Notorious Bored Samurai 5 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1991 The Notorious Bored Samurai 6 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1992 The Notorious Bored Samurai 7 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1993 The Notorious Bored Samurai 8 as Sawatari Mondonosuke
- 1994 The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
- 1994 The Notorious Bored Samurai 9 as Saotome Mondonosuke
- 1984 Kukai as Kukai
- 1995 Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki
- 1962 A Revengeful Raid
- 1978 Dynamite Don-Don as Ginji Tachibana
- 1980 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
- 1973 Men and War III: The Final Chapter as Shunsuke Godai
- 1961 Law in Ghost Island as Yusaku
- 1957 The Mansion of Intrigue as Kyoya Kirishima
- 1961 Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
- 2016 One Piece Film: GOLD as Raise Max (voice)
- 1982 Lake of Illusions as Nobunaga Oda
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Shoji Yamanaka
- 2016 Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke as 香月玄太郎
- 1974 Father of the Kamikaze
- 1959 The Acrobats of Death
- 2012 I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore as Hanazono Shugoro
- 1993 Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
- 1961 Whistling Drifter as Tsukinowa Gentaro
- 1961 Young Lord and Second Son
- 1961 Fine Man
- 1973 The Blossom and the Sword as Captain Sakagami
- 1961 The Orphan Brother
- 1975 Shimane Prison Riot as Yuji Kawamura
- 1976 Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
- 2019 Whistleblower as Ikuo Yakuyama
- 1984 The Story of a Man Among Men
- 1965 Love on the Rainbow as Tatsuya Kitakami
- 2004 Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case as Shohei Kazama
- 2016 Case 17 as Shuichi Itami
- 1968 One Day at Summer's End as Shigeo Ugari
- 2019 Castle of Sand
- 1963 The Navy as Shinji
- 1982 The Highest Honour as Major Tachibana
- 1960 Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
- 1963 Tokaido Fullhouse as Okeya-no-oni
- 2020 The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – as Raymond Fuu
- 1956 Virtue in Spades
- 1962 Knightly Advice
- 1989 Sensei as Chairman of the town
- 1959 Bloody Battle at Dawn
- 1956 Avenging Father as Minamoto no Yoriie
- 1982 Shadow Conspirator
- 1976 The Corporation
- 1993 Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
- 1993 Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
- 1963 53 Stages of Action
- 1975 Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
- 1959 Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
- 1985 Yume-Chiyo
- 2016 Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings as Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)
- 2024 Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken
- 1990 Detective Heiji as Heiji Zenigata
- 1961 Traveling of Two Young Men as Gentaro
- 1968 Cry of the Mountain
- 1969 Tsugaru zessho
- 1991 遊の人‐天下の御意見番 大久保彦左衛門‐
- 2014 Kenkaku Shōbai: Onikuma Izakaya
- 1982 南十字星
- 1988 The Beauty of the Sundial Mansion as Kogoro Akechi
- 2016 三屋清左衛門残日録 as Mitsuya Seizaemon
- 2017 三屋清左衛門残日録 完結篇 as Mitsuya Seizaemon
- 2018 三屋清左衛門残日録 三十年ぶりの再会
- 2020 三屋清左衛門残日録 新たなしあわせ
- 1998 Warlord of the Underworld as Jirocho Shimizu
- 1993 Rainbow Bridge
- 1986 The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody as Kogoro Akechi
- 1987 The Beauty in the Black Mask as Kogoro Akechi
- 1987 The Beauty in the Red Riding Outfit as Kogoro Akechi
- 1989 The Phantom Beauty of Kobe Rokko as Kogoro Akechi
- 1990 The Mysterious Lightning Beauty as Kogoro Akechi
- 2021 In His Chart ( 4 episodes ) as Itagaki Genzo [Director]
- 1968 Ryoma ga Yuku ( 52 episodes ) as Sakamoto Ryoma
- 1970 Mominoki wa Nokotta ( 52 episodes ) as Sakai Tadakiyo
- 2015 Seven Detectives ( 85 episodes ) as Shuntaro Domoto
- 2013 Hanzawa Naoki ( 20 episodes ) as Ken Nakanowatari
- 2002 生存 愛する娘のために ( 4 episodes )
- 2009 Triangle ( 11 episodes ) as Kuroki Shinzo
- 2023 Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero ( 1 episode )
- 2015 I'm Home ( 1 episode ) as Yozo Ieji
- 2002 Lone Wolf and Cub ( 9 episodes ) as Ogami Ittô
- 2012 Blackboard ( 1 episode ) as Akinori Shioda
- 2012 Breathless Summer ( 11 episodes ) as 夏目周作
- 2016 Fragile ( 10 episodes ) as Kaoru Nakaguma
- 2011 Princess Go ( 46 episodes )
- 2007 The Family ( 10 episodes ) as Daisuke Manpyo
- 2014 Sanbiki no Ossan ( 24 episodes ) as 清田清一
- 2008 刑事シュート しゅうと&ムコの事件日誌 ( 1 episode )
- 1996 SMAP×SMAP ( 2 episodes ) as Skit Guest
- 1990 Miyamoto Musashi ( 13 episodes ) as Miyamoto Musashi
- 2005 The Story of Dominating Countries ( 4 episodes )
- 2007 Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces ( 1 episode ) as Kuwayama Jubei
- 2012 Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon ( 11 episodes ) as Yoshito Tendo（天堂 義人）
- 2012 Blackboard ( 3 episodes ) as Shioda Akinori
- 1992 The Diary of Chuji's Travels ( 1 episode ) as Chuji
- 1987 Masamune Shogun ( 50 episodes ) as 伊達輝宗
- 2003 さすらい署長 風間昭平 ( 15 episodes )
- 2004 忠臣蔵 ( 1 episode )
- 2010 Absolute Zero ( 24 episodes ) as Hideo Nagashima
- 2005 Magistrate Ooka Echizen ( 20 episodes )
- 2024 Alice in Wonderful Kitchen ( 10 episodes ) as Gojo Michitaka
- 2017 Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi ( 9 episodes ) as Wataru Enoki
- 1987 Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu ( 6 episodes )
- 1998 Secret Magistrate Asahina ( 10 episodes ) as Asahina Kawachinokami Masakiyo
- 2012 Man of Destiny ( 10 episodes ) as Keisaku Sahashi
- 2020 Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist ( 11 episodes ) as Kyotaro Onda
- 2019 Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~ ( 22 episodes )
- 2008 Phantom Assassin ( 9 episodes ) as Koyama Genjuro
- 2008 Atsuhime ( 50 episodes )
- 2024 Believe: A Bridge to You ( 9 episodes ) as Goro Bando
- 1989 Sanada Yukimura ( 26 episodes )
- 1993 事件 (テレビ朝日のテレビドラマ) ( 1 episode )
- Soon 白虎隊～敗れざる者たち ( 1 episode )
- 1996 Further Tales of Musashi ( 13 episodes ) as Miyamoto Musashi
- 1986 Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches ( 13 episodes ) as Genroku Kano (Tokugawa Yoshimune)
- 2001 Hojo Tokimune ( 49 episodes ) as Sha Kokumei
- 2016 Seizaemon Remaining Diary ( 9 episodes )
- 2026 BORDERLESS -72 Hours ( 9 episodes ) as Midorikawa Soichiro
