Name
Isao Kimura
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-06-22
Deathday
1981-07-04 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Senda, Hiroshima, Japan
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isao Kimura (木村 功 Kimura Isao), also known as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog (1949) as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable collaboration with Kurosawa was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai, Katsushiro. During his career he also appeared in several films directed by Mikio Naruse as well as appearing in the famous Lone Wolf and Cub film series. In addition to a film career spanning almost thirty years, Kimura founded and directed an acting company which ultimately went bankrupt. He died of esophageal cancer at 57 years old.
Known For
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- 1952 Ikiru as Intern
- 1963 Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella as Tomokichi
- 1961 Young Lord Yakuza
- 1963 High and Low as Detective Arai
- 1960 The Stragglers
- 1968 Black Lizard as Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi
- 1951 Sekidô matsuri
- 1955 Yukiko
- 1970 Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
- 1966 Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn as Yagyu Genzaburo
- 1964 Assassination as Tadasaburo Sasaki
- 1974 Pastoral: To Die in the Country as Film Critic
- 1968 Affair in the Snow as Kazuo Imai
- 1962 Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Hon'iden Matahachi
- 1963 Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hon'iden Matahachi
- 1964 Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Hon'iden Matahachi
- 1965 Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Hon'iden Matahachi
- 1961 Miyamoto Musashi as Hon'iden Matahachi
- 1958 Summer Clouds as Okawa
- 1955 Beautiful Days as Imanishi
- 1964 Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
- 1954 A Billionaire as Koroku Tate
- 1959 Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- 1965 Conquest as Inspector Enya
- 1957 Showdown in Blood
- 1962 Our Marriage as Yutaka Matsumoto
- 1955 Ofukuro
- 1958 Little Peach as Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband
- 1952 Vacuum Zone as Private Riichiro Kitani
- 1967 Impasse as Shingo, Ibuki
- 1959 The Woman and the Pirate as 幸七
- 1968 Where did Sharaku go?
- 1955 Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Kashima
- 1953 A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
- 1969 Sky Scraper!
- 1956 Avalanche
- 1959 Hahakogusa as Yoshihiko Takayama
- 1962 Hokkaido, My Love
- 1949 Stray Dog as Yusa
- 1957 Throne of Blood as Phantom samurai
- 1971 Confessions Among Actresses as Director Nose
- 1960 Hero of the Red Light District
- 1967 The Affair as Mitsuhuru
- 1951 Still I Live On as Mizuno
- 1954 Cape Ashizuri
- 1950 The Angry Street
- 1964 The Shape of Night as Saitô
- 1955 The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Tamai
- 1953 Mr. Pu
- 1951 Beyond Love and Hate
- 1965 Snow Country as Shimamura
- 1951 Dancing Girl as Nozu
- 1957 Rice
- 1974 Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell as Tsuchigumo Hyoei
- 1963 Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Hirotaro Iguchi
- 1962 Four Sisters as Shoji Ohtsu
- 1968 Secret Information as Goro Izawa
- 1958 Beyond the Seasonal Wind
- 1954 The End of a Day
- 1959 Tokyo Detective Girl
- 2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' as Self
- 1956 Where's Paradise?
- 1962 The Temple of Wild Geese as Atsumichi Uda
- 1962 The Thinking Leaf
- 1961 The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
- 1967 The Journey as Eikichi Ito
- 1957 Price of Beauty as Kazuhiko Uematsu
- 1958 Vice as Iwase Shichiro
- 1976 My Brother as Father
- 1957 The Story of Pure Love as Segawa Hospital doctor
- 1951 Weeping Doll as Nomine
- 1956 I Saw the Killer as Takeo Fujisaki
- 1962 Nippon no obaachan
- 1962 Knightly Advice
- 1978 Invitation from the Beach as Toshihiko Kurahashi
- 1952 The Yamabiko School
- 1947 The Love of the Actress Sumako
- 1954 Seven Samurai as Katsushiro Okamoto
- 1963 Yakuza of Seki as Morisuke of Hakoda
- 1969 Fill the Cup with Blood
- 1963 Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
- 1951 Elegy
- 1953 At the End of the Clouds
- 1961 The Eighth Enemy as Kutsuda
- 1961 City
- 1952 Violence
- 1954 Student Double Suicide
- 1954 The Valley Between Love and Death as Kanji Sakata
- 1960 White Cliffs
- 1967 Rusty Pendant
- 1961 Beware of The Gunman
- 1961 The Harbor Lights
- 1957 Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
- 1961 Daigaku buyū-den
- 1960 The Brass General
- 1956 The Wife is a University Student as Noboru Hiyoshi (Keiko’s Husband)
- 1966 Look Up, Noble One as Tatsuo Kurokawa
- 1951 The Love Letter Trial
- 1976 遺書 白い少女
- 1942 The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
- 1964 Camellia Gate
- 1956 Symphony for Worn-Out Shoes
- 1970 Will to Conquer as Takechi Hanpeita
- 1964 Could I But Live as Professor Hiraoka
- 1951 Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
- 1978 Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada ( 1 episode )
- 1979 Ayu no uta ( 158 episodes ) as 木島先生
- 1980 Nukata no Ōkimi ( 2 episodes )
- 1977 Fuyu no Undokai ( 10 episodes )
