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
- Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
- Invitation from the Beach as Toshihiko Kurahashi
1977
1976
- My Brother as Father
- 遺書 白い少女
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
1970
- Will to Conquer as Takechi Hanpeita
- Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
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
- The Journey as Eikichi Ito
- Rusty Pendant
1966
- Look Up, Noble One as Tatsuo Kurokawa
- Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn as Yagyu Genzaburo
1965
- Conquest as Inspector Enya
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Snow Country as Shimamura
1964
- Camellia Gate
- The Shape of Night as Saitô
- Assassination as Tadasaburo Sasaki
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Could I But Live as Professor Hiraoka
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1963
- High and Low as Detective Arai
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Hirotaro Iguchi
- Yakuza of Seki as Morisuke of Hakoda
- Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
- Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella as Tomokichi
1962
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Atsumichi Uda
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Nippon no obaachan
- Four Sisters as Shoji Ohtsu
- Our Marriage as Yutaka Matsumoto
- Knightly Advice
- Hokkaido, My Love
- The Thinking Leaf
1961
- Miyamoto Musashi as Hon'iden Matahachi
- The Harbor Lights
- The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
- City
- The Eighth Enemy as Kutsuda
- Daigaku buyū-den
- Young Lord Yakuza
- Beware of The Gunman
1959
- The Woman and the Pirate as 幸七
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- Hahakogusa as Yoshihiko Takayama
- Tokyo Detective Girl
1958
- Little Peach as Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband
- Summer Clouds as Okawa
- Vice as Iwase Shichiro
- Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1957
- Throne of Blood as Phantom samurai
- The Story of Pure Love as Segawa Hospital doctor
- Rice
- Price of Beauty as Kazuhiko Uematsu
- Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
- Showdown in Blood
1956
- Symphony for Worn-Out Shoes
- I Saw the Killer as Takeo Fujisaki
- Where's Paradise?
- Avalanche
- The Wife is a University Student as Noboru Hiyoshi (Keiko’s Husband)
1955
- Beautiful Days as Imanishi
- Yukiko
- Ofukuro
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Tamai
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Kashima
1954
- Seven Samurai as Katsushiro Okamoto
- Cape Ashizuri
- A Billionaire as Koroku Tate
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Kanji Sakata
- The End of a Day
- Student Double Suicide
1952
- Ikiru as Intern
- Vacuum Zone as Private Riichiro Kitani
- The Yamabiko School
- Violence
1951
- Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
- Elegy
- Dancing Girl as Nozu
- Weeping Doll as Nomine
- The Love Letter Trial
- Beyond Love and Hate
- Still I Live On as Mizuno
- Sekidô matsuri
1950
1949
- Stray Dog as Yusa