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
1968
- Black Lizard as Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi
- Secret Information as Goro Izawa
- Where did Sharaku go?
- Affair in the Snow as Kazuo Imai
1967
- Impasse as Shingo, Ibuki
- The Affair as Mitsuhuru
- Rusty Pendant
- Journey
1966
- Look Up, Noble One as Tatsuo Kurokawa
- Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn as Yagyu Genzaburo
1965
- Conquest as Inspector Enya
- Snow Country as Shimamura
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Hon'iden Matahachi
1964
- Assassination as Tadasaburo Sasaki
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Hon'iden Matahachi
- The Shape of Night as Saitô
- Camellia Gate
- 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
- Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
- Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella as Tomokichi
1962
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Hon'iden Matahachi
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Atsumichi Uda
- Knightly Advice
- Our Marriage as Yutaka Matsumoto
- Four Sisters as Shoji Ohtsu
- Nippon no obaachan
- The Thinking Leaf
- Hokkaido, My Love
1961
- The Harbor Lights
- Miyamoto Musashi as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Young Lord Yakuza
- Daigaku buyū-den
- City
- The Eighth Enemy as Kutsuda
- The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
- Beware of The Gunman
1959
- The Woman and the Pirate as 幸七
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- Tokyo Detective Girl
- Hahakogusa as Yoshihiko Takayama
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
- Showdown in Blood
- Price of Beauty as Kazuhiko Uematsu
- Rice
- Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1956
- I Saw the Killer as Takeo Fujisaki
- Avalanche
- The Wife is a University Student as Noboru Hiyoshi (Keiko’s Husband)
- Tengoku wa doko da
- Symphony for Worn-Out Shoes
1955
- Yukiko
- Beautiful Days as Imanishi
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Kashima
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Tamai
- Ofukuro
1954
- Seven Samurai as Katsushiro Okamoto
- Cape Ashizuri
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Kanji Sakata
- A Billionaire as Koroku Tate
- Student Double Suicide
- The End of a Day
1952
- Ikiru as Intern
- The Yamabiko School
- Vacuum Zone as Kitani
- Violence
1951
- Weeping Doll as Nomine
- Dancing Girl as Nozu
- Beyond Love and Hate
- Still I Live On as Mizuno
- Elegy
- The Love Letter Trial
- Sekidô matsuri
1950
1949
- Stray Dog as Yusa