Isao Kimura
Born: 1923-06-22 in Senda, Hiroshima, Japan
Died: 1981-07-04
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1980
1979
- Ayu no uta as 木島先生
1978
- Invitation from the Beach as Toshihiko Kurahashi
- Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
1976
- My Brother as Father
1974
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country as Film Critic
- Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell as Tsuchigumo Hyoei
1971
- Confessions Among Actresses as Director Nose
1968
- Black Lizard as Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi
- Secret Information as Goro Izawa
- Affair in the Snow as Kazuo Imai
- Where did Sharaku go?
1967
- The Affair as Mitsuhuru
- Impasse as Shingo, Ibuki
- Journey
- Rusty Pendant
1966
- Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn as Yagyu Genzaburo
1965
- Snow Country as Shimamura
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Conquest as Inspector Enya
1964
- Assassination as Tadasaburo Sasaki
- The Shape of Night as Saitô
- Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1963
- High and Low as Detective Arai
- Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Hirotaro Iguchi
- Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
- Yakuza of Seki as Morisuke of Hakoda
- Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella as Tomokichi
1962
- The Thinking Leaf
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Atsumichi Uda
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Our Marriage as Yutaka Matsumoto
- Hokkaido, My Love
- Four Sisters as Shoji Ohtsu
- Knightly Advice
- Nippon no obaachan
1961
- Young Lord Yakuza
- Miyamoto Musashi as Hon'iden Matahachi
- The Eighth Enemy as Kutsuda
- The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
- The Harbor Lights
- 拳銃野郎に御用心
- City
- Daigaku buyū-den
1959
- Hahakogusa as Yoshihiko Takayama
- Tokyo Detective Girl
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- The Woman and the Pirate as 幸七
1958
- Summer Clouds as Okawa
- Little Peach as Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband
- Beyond the Seasonal Wind
- Akutoku as Iwase Shichiro
1957
- Throne of Blood as Phantom samurai
- The Story of Pure Love as Segawa Hospital doctor
- Showdown in Blood
- Rice
- Price of Beauty as Kazuhiko Uematsu
- Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1956
- Tengoku wa doko da
- Avalanche
- I Saw the Killer as Takeo Fujisaki
- The Wife is a University Student as Noboru Hiyoshi (Keiko’s Husband)
1955
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Tamai
- Beautiful Days
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Kashima
- Yukiko
- Ofukuro
1954
- Seven Samurai as Katsushiro Okamoto
- Cape Ashizuri
- Student Double Suicide
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Kanji Sakata
- A Billionaire as Koroku Tate
- The End of a Day
1952
- Ikiru as Intern
- Violence
- The Yamabiko School
- Vacuum Zone as Kitani
1951
- Weeping Doll as Nomine
- Elegy
- Dancing Girl as Nozu
- Still I Live On as Mizuno
- Beyond Love and Hate
- Sekidô matsuri
1950
1949
- Stray Dog as Yusa