Akitake Kōno
Born: 1911-10-08 in Nagasaki, Japan
Died: 1978-03-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武 Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973. Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.
Filmography
1973
- Miyamoto Musashi as Kimura Sukekuro
1971
- The Viper Brothers as Kingoro The Tattoo Master
1969
1967
1966
- Flame and the Code as Sadamitsu Gonda
- Hi No Taiko
- Nerves for Victory
- Japan's Most Chivalrous as Gennosuke Shioya
- You and I
1965
1964
- The Shape of Night
- Adventures of Zatoichi as Intendant Gorota Kajima
- The Scarlet Camellia
- Ken as Kiuchi
- Ocean Floor Crime #1
- The Lord's spy
1963
1962
- Fearful Witch
- Mid-August Commotion as Commander of Eastern Army Yamanaka
- Mother Country
- Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
- The Escape
- Hibari's Tale of Pathos
- Zankokuna tsuki
- Umineko ga tonde
1961
- The Harbor Lights
- The Conspirator
- Restoration Fire as Heikichi
- Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
- Shiroi minamikaze
- Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery as Cho
- A Fishwife's Tale
- Kanbi no san-tō shain as Division chief Sawamura
1960
- When a Woman Loves as Okada
- Castle of Flames
- Ayausgî G-Man - ânkoku gai no yagû
- Kuroshio hibun: Jigoku no hyakuman ryō
- The Man of Seven Faces as Jukichi Arao
- Challenge Beneath the Waves
- The Last Trump Card as Seigo Nakatsuka
- The Great Road
- One Passed Through Hell
- Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
- Ninja Assassins
- Police Precinct Part 12
- White Cliffs
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Kôno Taii
- Happily Tied to the Road as Sanemon
- The Hidden Treasure
- The Bastards of Lawless Town
- The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
- Souls in the Moonlight III
- Night of the Suspicions
- A Dead Drifter
- Sword of Vision as Okubo Hikozaemon
- The Big Scoop: The Third Woman
1958
- Points and Lines
- I Want to Be a Shellfish
- 死の壁の脱出 as Azuma
- Midair Circus
- The Outsiders as Doctor Kimura
- Souls in the Moonlight II as Momozo Zenriki
- Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
- Wind, Woman and Road
- The Envoy
- The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi as Furutaka Shuntaro
- The Gion Tempest as Sakakibara
- Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
- おばこ船頭さん
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Matabei
- Samurai Nippon
- The Temptress and the Monk as Medicine seller
- Small Rats of the Edo Town as Tôzô
1956
1955
- Taira Clan Saga as Heiroku
- Ejima and Ikushima as 奥山好竹院
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- The Dancer and Two Warriors
- The Wolves
- The Samurai of Edo
- Six Assassins
- Sisters
- 振袖釼法 as 大導寺平馬
1954
1953
- Tower of Lilies
- The Cannery Boat as Shibaura
- Hiren tsubaki
- Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha as 是枝七郎左衛門
- Hana no shôgai as 多田一郎
- Coming Up of Kodokan
- Seki no yatappe
- Shunsetsu no mon
1952
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail as Ise
- Castle of Carnage
- August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan as Junji Yoshida
- お洒落狂女 as Togawa Kankyo
- Chronicle of the Bulbul
- 治郎吉格子 as 久六
1950
1948
- My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain as Goro Kitami
1947
- Snow Trail as Honda
- Actress as Haruyoshi Kobayashi
1946
1945
- Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two as Genzaburo Higaki
- Three Women of the North
- A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo as Kazuma Hochino
- Duel at Yagyu Valley as Shinohara Samanosuke
1944
- The Most Beautiful as Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)
- Four Marriages
- Battle Troop as Murakami
1943
- Sanshiro Sugata as Yoshima Dan
- Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
- Military Song of the Morning Mist as Maruge
- Kantaro of Ina