Kō Nishimura
Born: 1923-01-25 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Died: 1997-04-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2002
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self (voice)
1995
1991
1989
- The Men Who Made Ultraman as Eiji Tsuburaya
1988
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Makoto Nishimura
1986
1984
- The Detective as Senkichi Otsubo
- Kukai
1983
- Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi as 岸井亥之吉
- A Hunter's Diary as Kentaro Hatanaka
- Theater Of Life
1982
1981
1980
1979
- Nomugi Pass
- Nutcracker Fantasy as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)
- The Strangling as Yasuzo Kariba
- Down with The Big Boss as Glass-Eating Mime
1978
- Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo as Mamo (voice)
- The Incident as Goichi Ômura
- Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Shigetomi Katta
- Love and Faith as Sojin Kamiya
- The Beauty in the Bathroom
1977
- Japan's Don as Kahe Shimabara
- Hokuriku Proxy War as Mr. Yasuhara
- Love in the Mud
- Yokomizo Seishi Series
- Fushoku no kōzō as Honda Yoshikazu
1976
- Skyscraper Murder Case
- Manhunt as Nagaoka Ryokai
- Elegy as Nobuhisa Hyodo
1975
- Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees as Kenpeishi
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Tokuji Owada
- Solar Eclipse
- Without Complaint
1974
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Old bean-seller
- Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker
- The Family as Sentaro Watanuki
- The Bodyguard
1973
- Lady Snowblood as Priest Dokai
- Tsugaru Folksong as Tamezo Tsukamoto
- When the Night Breaks
- Summer Days Across the River
- Hanzo the Razor: The Snare as Magobei "Snake" Onishi
1972
- The Pirates of Buban
- Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi
1970
1969
- Goyokin
- Kanto Woman Infamy
- Black Rose Mansion as Ex-husband
- One Two Punch
- Quick-draw Okatsu as Makabe
- The Wild Sea as Munekata
- ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩 as 寺田保造
- 喜劇 深夜族
- Second Generation Young Boss as Yanosuke Hashimoto
- Lady with Seven Faces as Printer
- Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1968
- Black Lizard as Detective Matoba
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
- Samaritan Zatoichi as Sosuke Saruya
- The Bride from Hades as Banzou
- Living Skeleton as Nishizato
- New Year Trip
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
- Neon taiheiki
- Snake Woman's Curse as Yasuke
- Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Policeman on Island
- A Lavish Invitation
1967
- Eleven Samurai as Errant samurai Daijuro
- Samurai Wolf II as Magobe
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Itakura
- Express Train
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Uneshiro Suga
- The Singing Gunman
- A Killer's Key as Yasujiro Endo
- Classmates as Hanada
- Flower Cards Chivalry
- Whispering Joe as Man
1966
- The Sword of Doom as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
- Rub Out the Past as Tanzo Koide
- The Threat as Kawanishi
- Rise Against the Sword as Etanba
- Seven Gamblers
- The Pornographers as Detective Sanada
- Dokonjo Taisho
1965
- Red Beard as Chief retainer
- House of Terrors as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire as Tahei Narumiya
- Tale of Ninja Duty as Chisaka Hyobu
- The Retreat from Kiska as Staff Officer
- Tale of Japanese Burglars
- Stairs of Evil as Shimoyama
- The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
- Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as 今川義元
1964
- Intentions of Murder as Koichi Takahashi
- An Impudent Man
- Warrior of the Wind as Mizuno Izumi
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- The Scarlet Camellia as Sakichi
- Giant Rumble
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- The Glamorous Ghost as Hiroshi Asami
- The Desperate as Yamaguchi
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Enzo Tatara
- The Spying Sorceress
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
- The Gorgeous Geisha
1963
- High and Low as Third Creditor
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor
- Pressure of Guilt
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Yamaoka
- Tale of Army Brutality as Kameoka, Zenji
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Chubei
- The Life of a Horse-Trader
- At the Side of the Bridge 4
- Escape from Hell as Heiroku
- Bad Reputation: Three Notorious Men
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- The Maid Story
- Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
- Doggie March as Killer (voice)
- Miren as Okazaki
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- 13 Assassins as Kujuro Hirayama
- Life of a Flower as Tada Ichiro
1962
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Mokudō Kida
- Gorath as Murata - Secretary of Space
- Gang vs. Gang
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Yamiya
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Kizaru
- Mount Hakone
- At the Side of the Bridge
- At the Side of the Bridge 2
- The Body
- Haru no sanmyaku
- Four Sisters as Michiharu Mitsumine
- Kono ni uruwashi
- Curry Rice
- Chibusa o daku musume tachi
- My Hobo
- Tokyo Bay as Noboru Sumikawa
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
- Woman of Design
- Let's Meet in Our Dreams
1961
- Yojimbo as Kuma
- Pigs and Battleships as Yajima
- Killers on Parade as Sai
- Zero Focus as Sotaro Uhara
- Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
- The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- Blind Devotion as Denroku
- Tale of a Company Boss 3 as Hanada
- Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
- For This We Fight
- Refresher Course for Wives
- 白い南風
- Tale of a Company Boss
- Hidden Fangs
- Wakarete ikiru toki mo
- Aces Wild
- Snow in the South Seas
- A Man in Red
- The Wind and Waves
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Contract Officer Shirai
- Everything Goes Wrong as Nishimura
- The Sleeping Beast Within
- The Call of the Foghorn as Morimoto
- The Lost Alibi as Okudaira
- Intimidation as Matakichi Nakaike
- The Angry Sea
- Wait for Tomorrow as Uno
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Yang Sanyuan
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Sixteen years old
- The Devil's Sigh
- The Blue Beast
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Boss
1959
- My Second Brother as Goro Mitamura
- おヤエの家つき女中
- Elegy to Youth
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- The Human Cyclone
- Break Down that Wall
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- The Wild Reporter as Ryu Konei
- おヤエのママさん女中
- The Fugitive
- Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
- Tsuki wa chikyū o mawatteru
- Tokyo Romance Way
- Umi wa kurutte iru
- The Song of the Cart
1958
- The Invisible Wall
- Stolen Desire as Kanji Takada
- The Ballad of Narayama as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
- Nishi Ginza Station
- Tokyo Bus Girl
- Endless Desire as Pharmacist
- The Seasons of Love as Reporter
- The Girl from Osaka
- Crimson Wings as Tetsuji Mizutani
- Showdown in the Storm
- Drunken Ghost as Daigorô
- Fangs of Night
- Wolves of the Night
- Breasts and Bullets
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Tominaga
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kiyami no Shinko
- But the Flesh is Weak as Acupressurist
- Shiroi natsu
- Nikutai no hankō
- Who's the Real Killer as Nakagawa
- The Temptress and the Monk as Peasant
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Hikobei
- Harbor Rats
- Saigo no totsugeki
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Baba
- Dotanba
- Tengoku wa doko da
- Frankie the Milkman as Tax Collector
- Excursion to Treasure Isle
- Fountainhead as Kasuya
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Lunar Eclipse
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Meiken monogatari
1955
1954
- The Street Without Sun as Extraordinary detective
- A Billionaire