Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Born: 1939-01-11 in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2003-09-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature. He is the eldest son of Kawarazaki Chojuro IV. His wife is Ito Eiko. His younger brothers are Kawarazaki Jiro and Kawarazaki Kenzo. At the age of 64, he died of acute heart failure.
Filmography
1997
- Moonlight Serenade as Headmaster
1995
- Sharaku as Santō Kyōden
- Shinjuku Shark
1994
- Sakura
- Tokyo Cinderella Story as Tadashi Matsui
1993
- Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict as Chamberlain giving shelter to Ogami Itto
- Etorofu Harukanari
1992
- The Strange Tale of Oyuki as Take-san
- Faraway Sunset
- An Elegy of Tyrole as Yamagata Motoo
1991
- Rhapsody in August as Noboru
- War and Youth as Kappei Hayase
1990
- Takeshi: Childhood Days as Tatsuo Kazama (Uncle of Shinji)
- Ningen no sabaku
1989
- My Phoenix as Kisaku Anayama
- It's Easier Than Kissing
1988
- Shiro and Marilyn as Gentaro Tamashiro
1987
- Tokyo Bordello as Zennosuke Echigoya
- My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?! as Jimpachi Kodera
- There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
- River of Fireflies
1986
- A Human Promise as Yoshio, Ryôsaku's son
- Gonza the Spearman as Jinbei Iwaki
- Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth as Hideo Hayakawa
1985
- Sotsugyou -GRADUATION- as Katsutoshi Watanabe
- Yume-Chiyo
1984
- Serial Killer: Coldblooded
- Someday, Someone Will Be Killed as Morio Nagayama
1983
- Dark Room as Man (Interview with Nakata)
- Sketchbook of Early Spring
1981
- This Is Noriko
- Eijanaika as Nakazawa
- Manon as Kuwashiro
1980
1979
- Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
- Heaven Sent
- Vengeance Is Mine as Pawnshop Owner
- Gassan as Karasu
- Tokyo Suburbia
1978
- Panic in High School as Ogata
- Double Clutch
1976
- Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari as Saeki
1975
- Let's Go, Grandma!
- The Gate of Youth
- Invitation of Lust
- Light of Africa as Chief of police
1974
- Himiko as Mimaki
- Red Paper Lantern
- My Way as Kobayakawa's father
1972
1971
- A Woman Called En
- Follow the Girls as Teruo
- The Gentle Japanese as Shaka
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Kametaro Futori
1967
1965
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Kichijiro Hayashi
- The Tattooed Lord as Yoyoshi
- Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1964
1963
- Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hayashi Kichijiro
- A House in the Quarter as Seijun Kunugida
- Tattoo of Love
- Tokaido Fullhouse
- Castle of Owls as Kumotaro
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
- Sasuke and His Comedians
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- 13 Assassins as Makino Yoshio