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
- Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi as 岸井亥之吉
- A Hunter's Diary as Kentaro Hatanaka
1982
1981
1980
1979
- Nutcracker Fantasy as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)
- The Strangling as Yasuzo Kariba
- Nomugi Pass
- Down with The Big Boss as Glass-Eating Mime
1978
- Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo as Mamo (voice)
- Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Shigetomi Katta
- The Incident as Goichi Ômura
- 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
- Hokuriku Proxy War as Mr. Yasuhara
- Love in the Mud
1976
- Manhunt as Nagaoka Ryokai
- Skyscraper Murder Case
- Elegy as Nobuhisa Hyodo
1975
- Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees as Kenpeishi
- Solar Eclipse
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Tokuji Owada
- Without Complaint
1974
- Wounded Angels as Detective Kaizu
- The Bodyguard
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Sukezo Kojima
- Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Old bean-seller
- The Family as Sentaro Watanuki
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
- Black Rose Mansion as Ex-husband
- Quick-draw Okatsu as Makabe
- Mito Komon as 水戸光圀
- Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- 喜劇 深夜族
- The Wild Sea as Munekata
- Kanto Woman Infamy
- Lady with Seven Faces as Printer
- ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩 as 寺田保造
- One Two Punch
- Second Generation Young Boss as Yanosuke Hashimoto
1968
- Black Lizard as Detective Matoba
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
- Samaritan Zatoichi as Sosuke Saruya
- Living Skeleton as Nishizato
- The Bride from Hades as Banzou
- Snake Woman's Curse as Yasuke
- Neon taiheiki
- New Year Trip
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
- Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Policeman on Island
- A Lavish Invitation
1967
- Eleven Samurai as Errant samurai Daijuro
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Uneshiro Suga
- Samurai Wolf II as Magobe
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Itakura
- Classmates as Hanada
- A Killer's Key as Yasujiro Endo
- Express Train
- Flower Cards Chivalry
- The Singing Gunman
- Whispering Joe as Man
1966
- The Sword of Doom as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
- Debt of Honor as Iinuma
- The Pornographers as Detective Sanada
- The Threat as Kawanishi
- Seven Gamblers
- Dokonjo Taisho
- Rise Against the Sword as Etanba
- Rub Out the Past as Tanzo Koide
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
- Tale of Ninja Duty as Chisaka Hyobu
- House of Terrors as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire as Tahei Narumiya
- The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
1964
- Giant Rumble
- Intentions of Murder as Koichi Takahashi
- Warrior of the Wind as Mizuno Izumi
- The Scarlet Camellia as Sakichi
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- The Desperate as Yamaguchi
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
- The Spying Sorceress
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Enzo Tatara
- An Impudent Man
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- The Glamorous Ghost as Hiroshi Asami
- The Gorgeous Geisha
1963
- High and Low as Third Creditor
- Life of a Flower as Tada Ichiro
- 13 Assassins as Kujuro Hirayama
- Doggie March as Killer (voice)
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Yamaoka
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Chubei
- Tale of Army Brutality as Kameoka, Zenji
- Escape from Hell as Heiroku
- Pressure of Guilt
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- Miren as Okazaki
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor
- At the Side of the Bridge 4
- The Maid Story
- The Life of a Horse-Trader
- Bad Reputation: Three Notorious Men
- Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
1962
- Gorath as Murata - Secretary of Space
- Farm Girls
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Kizaru
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Yamiya
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Mokudō Kida
- Mount Hakone
- My Hobo
- The Body
- Woman of Design
- Four Sisters as Michiharu Mitsumine
- Curry Rice
- Tokyo Bay as Noboru Sumikawa
- Let's Meet in Our Dreams
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Gang vs. Gang
- At the Side of the Bridge
- Kono ni uruwashi
- At the Side of the Bridge 2
- I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
- Haru no sanmyaku
1961
- Yojimbo as Kuma
- Pigs and Battleships as Yajima
- A Man in Red
- The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- Killers on Parade as Sai
- Blind Devotion as Denroku
- Aces Wild
- Eternity of Love
- Zero Focus as Sotaro Uhara
- Snow in the South Seas
- An Angel is Chasing Me
- Refresher Course for Wives
- The Wind and Waves
- Tale of a Company Boss 3 as Hanada
- Hidden Fangs
- For This We Fight
- Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
- The Matsukawa Incident
- Tale of a Company Boss
- Shiroi minamikaze
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Contract Officer Shirai
- The Angry Sea
- The Sleeping Beast Within
- Towering Waves
- The Lost Alibi as Okudaira
- Intimidation as Matakichi Nakaike
- Yakuza sensei
- The Blue Beast
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Everything Goes Wrong as Nishimura
- The Call of the Foghorn as Morimoto
- Wait for Tomorrow as Uno
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Yang Sanyuan
- The Last Trump Card as Chibi (Shorty)
- The Devil's Sigh
- Sixteen years old
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Boss
1959
- My Second Brother as Goro Mitamura
- Break Down that Wall
- Elegy to Youth
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- The Human Cyclone
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- The Fugitive
- The Song of the Cart
- Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
- おヤエの家つき女中
- The Wild Reporter as Ryu Konei
- おヤエのママさん女中
- Umi wa kurutte iru
- Tsuki wa chikyū o mawatteru
- Tokyo Romance Way
1958
- The Ballad of Narayama as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
- The Invisible Wall
- Endless Desire as Pharmacist
- Stolen Desire as Kanji Takada
- The Seasons of Love as Reporter
- Fangs of Night
- Tokyo Bus Girl
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Tominaga
- Nishi Ginza Station
- Wolves of the Night
- Drunken Ghost as Daigorô
- Breasts and Bullets
- Crimson Wings as Tetsuji Mizutani
- The Girl from Osaka
- Showdown in the Storm
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kiyami no Shinko
- Harbor Rats
- Saigo no totsugeki
- The Temptress and the Monk as Peasant
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Hikobei
- But the Flesh is Weak as Acupressurist
- Devil Flesh
- Who's the Real Killer as Nakagawa
- Shiroi natsu
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Baba
- Frankie the Milkman as Tax Collector
- Excursion to Treasure Isle
- Fountainhead as Kasuya
- Dotanba
- Tengoku wa doko da
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Lunar Eclipse
- Meiken monogatari
1955
1954
- The Street Without Sun as Extraordinary detective
- A Billionaire