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
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
- Where did Sharaku go?
- Affair in the Snow as Kazuo Imai
- Secret Information as Goro Izawa
1967
- The Affair as Mitsuhuru
- Rusty Pendant
- Impasse as Shingo, Ibuki
- Journey
1966
- Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn as Yagyu Genzaburo
- Look Up, Noble One as Tatsuo Kurokawa
1965
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Snow Country as Shimamura
- Conquest as Inspector Enya
1964
- Assassination as Tadasaburo Sasaki
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Hon'iden Matahachi
- The Shape of Night as Saitô
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1963
- High and Low as Detective Arai
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Hirotaro Iguchi
- Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
- Yakuza of Seki as Morisuke of Hakoda
- 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
- Four Sisters as Shoji Ohtsu
- The Thinking Leaf
- Our Marriage as Yutaka Matsumoto
- Hokkaido, My Love
- Nippon no obaachan
1961
- Young Lord Yakuza
- Miyamoto Musashi as Hon'iden Matahachi
- The Eighth Enemy as Kutsuda
- City
- The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
- The Harbor Lights
- Daigaku buyū-den
- Beware of The Gunman
1959
- The Woman and the Pirate as 幸七
- Tokyo Detective Girl
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- Hahakogusa as Yoshihiko Takayama
1958
- Summer Clouds as Okawa
- Little Peach as Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband
- Akutoku 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
- Showdown in Blood
- Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1956
- Avalanche
- Tengoku wa doko da
- 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
- Yukiko
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Kashima
- Beautiful Days as Imanishi
- Ofukuro
1954
- Seven Samurai as Katsushiro Okamoto
- A Billionaire as Koroku Tate
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Kanji Sakata
- The End of a Day
- Student Double Suicide
- Cape Ashizuri
1952
- Ikiru as Intern
- Vacuum Zone as Kitani
- Violence
- The Yamabiko School
1951
- Beyond Love and Hate
- Elegy
- Dancing Girl as Nozu
- Sekidô matsuri
- Still I Live On as Mizuno
- Weeping Doll as Nomine
1950
1949
- Stray Dog as Yusa