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
- Shinjuku Shark
- Sharaku as Santō Kyōden
1994
- Tokyo Cinderella Story as Tadashi Matsui
- Sakura
1993
- Etorofu Harukanari
- Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict as Chamberlain giving shelter to Ogami Itto
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
1988
- Shiro and Marilyn as Gentaro Tamashiro
1987
- Tokyo Bordello as Zennosuke Echigoya
- River of Fireflies
- There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
- My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?! as Jimpachi Kodera
1986
- Gonza the Spearman as Jinbei Iwaki
- Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth as Hideo Hayakawa
- A Human Promise as Yoshio, Ryôsaku's son
1985
- Yume-Chiyo
- Sotsugyou -GRADUATION- as Katsutoshi Watanabe
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
- Manon as Kuwashiro
- Eijanaika as Nakazawa
- This Is Noriko
1980
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Pawnshop Owner
- Heaven Sent
- Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly as Yoshihiro
- Tokyo Suburbia
- Gassan as Karasu
1978
- Panic in High School as Ogata
- Double Clutch
1976
- Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari as Saeki
1975
- Invitation of Lust as Yazawa
- Light of Africa as Chief of police
- The Gate of Youth
- Let's Go, Grandma!
1974
- Himiko as Mimaki
- Red Paper Lantern
- My Way as Kobayakawa's father
1972
1971
- おれは男だ！ as 小林一郎
- Follow the Girls as Teruo
- The Gentle Japanese as Shaka
- A Woman Called En
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Kametaro Futori
1967
1965
- Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Kichijiro Hayashi
- The Tattooed Lord as Yoyoshi
1964
1963
- 13 Assassins as Makino Yoshio
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
- A House in the Quarter as Seijun Kunugida
- Sasuke and His Comedians
- Castle of Owls as Kumotaro
- Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Hayashi Kichijiro
- Tokaido Fullhouse
- Tattoo of Love
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter