Isao Kimura
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.
Seven Samurai
as Katsushiro OkamotoA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Ikiru
as InternKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Throne of Blood
as Phantom samuraiReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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High and Low
as Detective AraiIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Stray Dog
as YusaA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
as Film CriticA director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
as Tsuchigumo HyoeiIn the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as Hirotaro IguchiAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Hon'iden MatahachiThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Hon'iden MatahachiIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Assassination
as Tadasaburo SasakiAssassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay,...
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Black Lizard
as Kogoro Akechi / MatsukichiA detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
as Atsumichi UdaSatoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Hon'iden MatahachiIn this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the...
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Hero of the Red Light District
as uncreditedA successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his...
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Summer Clouds
as OkawaA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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The Affair
as MitsuhuruAs a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with...
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Snow Country
as ShimamuraThis movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of...
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Little Peach
as Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husbandAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Still I Live On
as MizunoAbout the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the...
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Confessions Among Actresses
as Director NoseIn this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from...
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Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
as uncreditedThe story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became...
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Where did Sharaku go?
as uncreditedWriter Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his...
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The Shape of Night
as SaitôYoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as Hon'iden MatahachiThe fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
as uncreditedThe stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...
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Four Sisters
as Shoji OhtsuA story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms...
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Dancing Girl
as NozuThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
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Conquest
as Inspector EnyaProvincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
as Hon'iden MatahachiIn the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the...
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Affair in the Snow
as Kazuo ImaiIn an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
as Kanji SakataA great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love...
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Impasse
as Shingo, IbukiShingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko...
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Beautiful Days
as uncreditedMasaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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Our Marriage
as Yutaka MatsumotoWhen two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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The Story of Pure Love
as Segawa Hospital doctorJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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A Billionaire
as Koroku TateAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Rice
as uncreditedA touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
as Yagyu GenzaburoLoyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission...
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Vacuum Zone
as KitaniJust before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served...
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Yakuza of Seki
as Morisuke of HakodaA young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister,...
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Sky Scraper!
as uncreditedA film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
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Young Lord Yakuza
as uncreditedYoung Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under...
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Price of Beauty
as Kazuhiko UematsuMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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Nippon no obaachan
as uncreditedTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Weeping Doll
as NomineA Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
as uncreditedJapanese comedy film.
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The Thinking Leaf
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Elegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
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Showdown in Blood
as uncreditedHayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought...
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The End of a Day
as uncreditedMilitary doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl....
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Beyond Love and Hate
as uncreditedA young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his...
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The Angry Street
as uncreditedThe Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including...
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At the End of the Clouds
as uncreditedA movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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Ofukuro
as uncreditedShizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading...
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女と海賊
as 幸七In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea,...
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The Stragglers
as uncreditedThe last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived
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Invitation from the Beach
as Toshihiko KurahashiA wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and...
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Tokyo Detective Girl
as uncreditedWoman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.
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Fill the Cup with Blood
as uncreditedSecond delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn...
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Cases of Umon:Ａ Woman with An Umbrella
as TomokichiRyutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the...
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Akutoku
as Iwase ShichiroA movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as uncreditedOnna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Secret Information
as Goro IzawaA gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
as uncreditedA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his...
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The Yamabiko School
as uncreditedA story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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Ayu no uta
as 木島先生The 24th NHK Asadora. Starring Senri Yamazaki as a woman who makes her life at a fishing port.
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Nukata no Ōkimi
as uncreditedA historical romance about the life of Princess Nukata, a Manyo poetess who was loved by two...
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Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
as uncreditedKindaichi becomes involved in the case of an actress whose husbands keep dying mysteriously —...
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