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
1993
- Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto as Self
1991
1989
- The Men Who Made Ultraman as Eiji Tsuburaya
1988
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Makoto Nishimura
1986
1984
- Kukai
- The Detective as Senkichi Otsubo
1983
- Theater Of Life
- A Hunter's Diary as Kentaro Hatanaka
- Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi as 岸井亥之吉
1982
1981
1980
1979
- Nutcracker Fantasy as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)
- Nomugi Pass
- 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
- Yokomizo Seishi Series
- Fushoku no kōzō as Honda Yoshikazu
- Japan's Don as Kahe Shimabara
- Love in the Mud
- Hokuriku Proxy War as Mr. Yasuhara
1976
- Manhunt as Nagaoka Ryokai
- Skyscraper Murder Case
- Elegy as Nobuhisa Hyodo
1975
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Tokuji Owada
- Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees as Kenpeishi
- Solar Eclipse
- Without Complaint
1974
- The Bodyguard
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Old bean-seller
- The Family as Sentaro Watanuki
- Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Sukezo Kojima
1973
- Lady Snowblood as Priest Dokai
- Hanzo the Razor: The Snare as Magobei "Snake" Onishi
- Tsugaru Folksong as Tamezo Tsukamoto
- Summer Days Across the River
- When the Night Breaks
1972
- Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi
- The Pirates of Buban
1970
1969
- Goyokin
- Quick-draw Okatsu as Makabe
- Black Rose Mansion as Ex-husband
- 喜劇 深夜族
- Second Generation Young Boss as Yanosuke Hashimoto
- The Wild Sea as Munekata
- Mito Komon as 水戸光圀
- Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- Kanto Woman Infamy
- Lady with Seven Faces as Printer
- One Two Punch
- ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩 as 寺田保造
1968
- Black Lizard as Detective Matoba
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
- The Bride from Hades as Banzou
- Samaritan Zatoichi as Sosuke Saruya
- Living Skeleton as Nishizato
- Snake Woman's Curse as Yasuke
- A Lavish Invitation
- New Year Trip
- Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Policeman on Island
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
- Neon taiheiki
1967
- Eleven Samurai as Errant samurai Daijuro
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Uneshiro Suga
- Samurai Wolf II as Magobe
- Classmates as Hanada
- A Killer's Key as Yasujiro Endo
- Express Train
- The Singing Gunman
- Flower Cards Chivalry
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Itakura
- Whispering Joe as Man
1966
- The Sword of Doom as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
- The Pornographers as Detective Sanada
- The Threat as Kawanishi
- Rise Against the Sword as Etanba
- Dokonjo Taisho
- Rub Out the Past as Tanzo Koide
- Seven Gamblers
1965
- Red Beard as Chief retainer
- The Retreat from Kiska as Staff Officer
- Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as 今川義元
- Tale of Japanese Burglars
- Stairs of Evil as Shimoyama
- 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 Ghost of the One Eyed Man
1964
- Intentions of Murder as Koichi Takahashi
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- The Scarlet Camellia as Sakichi
- Warrior of the Wind as Mizuno Izumi
- The Desperate as Yamaguchi
- The Spying Sorceress
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
- Giant Rumble
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Enzo Tatara
- An Impudent Man
- The Glamorous Ghost as Hiroshi Asami
- The Gorgeous Geisha
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
1963
- High and Low as Third Creditor
- Life of a Flower as Tada Ichiro
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Yamaoka
- 13 Assassins as Kujuro Hirayama
- Tale of Army Brutality as Kameoka, Zenji
- The Maid Story
- Pressure of Guilt
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Chubei
- Escape from Hell as Heiroku
- Doggie March as Killer (voice)
- At the Side of the Bridge 4
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor
- Bad Reputation: Three Notorious Men
- Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- The Life of a Horse-Trader
- Miren as Okazaki
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1962
- Gorath as Murata - Secretary of Space
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Kizaru
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Yamiya
- Four Sisters as Michiharu Mitsumine
- The Body
- Woman of Design
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Mokudō Kida
- Tokyo Bay as Noboru Sumikawa
- Farm Girls
- Let's Meet in Our Dreams
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- At the Side of the Bridge 2
- Curry Rice
- Haru no sanmyaku
- At the Side of the Bridge
- Gang vs. Gang
- Kono ni uruwashi
- My Hobo
- I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
- Mount Hakone
1961
- Yojimbo as Kuma
- Pigs and Battleships as Yajima
- Snow in the South Seas
- Eternity of Love
- Aces Wild
- Zero Focus as Sotaro Uhara
- Killers on Parade as Sai
- Hidden Fangs
- Refresher Course for Wives
- An Angel is Chasing Me
- Tale of a Company Boss 3 as Hanada
- For This We Fight
- Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
- The Wind and Waves
- The Matsukawa Incident
- Tale of a Company Boss
- The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- 白い南風
- A Man in Red
- Blind Devotion as Denroku
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Contract Officer Shirai
- The Lost Alibi as Okudaira
- Wait for Tomorrow as Uno
- The Call of the Foghorn as Morimoto
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- The Blue Beast
- Intimidation as Matakichi Nakaike
- Sixteen years old
- The Sleeping Beast Within
- Everything Goes Wrong as Nishimura
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Yang Sanyuan
- Towering Waves
- The Devil's Sigh
- The Angry Sea
- The Last Trump Card as Chibi (Shorty)
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Boss
- Yakuza sensei
1959
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- Break Down that Wall
- The Fugitive
- My Second Brother as Goro Mitamura
- The Wild Reporter as Ryu Konei
- Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
- The Human Cyclone
- Elegy to Youth
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- The Song of the Cart
- Tokyo Romance Way
- おヤエの家つき女中
- Umi wa kurutte iru
- おヤエのママさん女中
- Tsuki wa chikyū o mawatteru
1958
- The Ballad of Narayama as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
- Endless Desire as Pharmacist
- The Seasons of Love as Reporter
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Tominaga
- Fangs of Night
- Stolen Desire as Kanji Takada
- Showdown in the Storm
- Crimson Wings as Tetsuji Mizutani
- Wolves of the Night
- Drunken Ghost as Daigorô
- Nishi Ginza Station
- The Girl from Osaka
- Tokyo Bus Girl
- Breasts and Bullets
- The Invisible Wall
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kiyami no Shinko
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Hikobei
- But the Flesh is Weak as Acupressurist
- Who's the Real Killer as Nakagawa
- Harbor Rats
- Saigo no totsugeki
- The Temptress and the Monk as Peasant
- Shiroi natsu
- Devil Flesh
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Baba
- Dotanba
- Fountainhead as Kasuya
- Lunar Eclipse
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Excursion to Treasure Isle
- Tengoku wa doko da
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Meiken monogatari
- Frankie the Milkman as Tax Collector
1955
1954
- The Street Without Sun as Extraordinary detective
- A Billionaire