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
- Down with The Big Boss as Glass-Eating Mime
- Nomugi Pass
- The Strangling as Yasuzo Kariba
- Nutcracker Fantasy as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)
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
- Love in the Mud
- Hokuriku Proxy War as Mr. Yasuhara
1976
- Manhunt as Nagaoka Ryokai
- Skyscraper Murder Case
- 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
- Wounded Angels as Detective Kaizu
- The Bodyguard
- The Family as Sentaro Watanuki
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Old bean-seller
- 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
- Mito Komon as 水戸光圀
- Goyokin
- Shinjuku Plaza
- Black Rose Mansion as Ex-husband
- Lady with Seven Faces as Printer
- Quick-draw Okatsu as Makabe
- Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- Kanto Woman Infamy
- The Wild Sea as Munekata
- One Two Punch
- 喜劇 深夜族
- Second Generation Young Boss as Yanosuke Hashimoto
- ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩 as 寺田保造
1968
- Samaritan Zatoichi as Sosuke Saruya
- Living Skeleton as Nishizato
- Snake Woman's Curse as Yasuke
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
- Black Lizard as Detective Matoba
- The Bride from Hades as Banzou
- The Neon Taiheiki
- Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Policeman on Island
- A Lavish Invitation
- New Year Trip
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
1967
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Itakura
- Classmates as Hanada
- Eleven Samurai as Errant samurai Daijuro
- Samurai Wolf II as Magobe
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Uneshiro Suga
- 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'
- The Pornographers as Detective Sanada
- The Threat as Kawanishi
- Rise Against the Sword as Etanba
- Seven Gamblers
- Debt of Honor as Iinuma
- Rub Out the Past as Tanzo Koide
- Dokonjo Taisho
1965
- Red Beard as Chief retainer
- Tale of Japanese Burglars
- The Retreat from Kiska as Staff Officer
- Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as 今川義元
- House of Terrors as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback
- Stairs of Evil as Shimoyama
- Tale of Ninja Duty as Chisaka Hyobu
- 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
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
- Warrior of the Wind as Mizuno Izumi
- The Scarlet Camellia as Sakichi
- The Glamorous Ghost as Hiroshi Asami
- The Desperate as Yamaguchi
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Enzo Tatara
- The Spying Sorceress
- An Impudent Man
- The Gorgeous Geisha
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
- Apple Blossom Town
- Attack Squadron as Petty Officer Inaba
- Pressure of Guilt
- Doggie March as Killer (voice)
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- Tale of Army Brutality as Kameoka, Zenji
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Chubei
- Escape from Hell as Heiroku
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- The Life of a Horse-Trader
- The Maid Story
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor
- Miren as Okazaki
- At the Side of the Bridge 4
- Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
- Bad Reputation: Three Notorious Men
1962
- Gorath as Murata - Secretary of Space
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Kizaru
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Mokudō Kida
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Yamiya
- Mount Hakone
- The Body
- At the Side of the Bridge 2
- I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
- Curry Rice
- Kono ni uruwashi
- Tokyo Bay as Noboru Sumikawa
- Four Sisters as Michiharu Mitsumine
- Woman of Design
- My Hobo
- Farm Girls as Gosaku
- At the Side of the Bridge
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Let's Meet in Our Dreams
- Gang vs. Gang
- Haru no sanmyaku
1961
- Yojimbo as Kuma
- A Cat and Dried Bonito Flakes: The Story of a Swindler
- Pigs and Battleships as Yajima
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
- The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- The Matsukawa Incident
- Blind Devotion as Denroku
- Snow in the South Seas
- Tale of a Company Boss 3 as Hanada
- Hidden Fangs
- For This We Fight
- A Man in Red
- Eternity of Love
- Zero Focus as Sotaro Uhara
- Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
- Aces Wild
- An Angel is Chasing Me
- Killers on Parade as Sai
- Tale of a Company Boss
- The Wind and Waves
- Shiroi minamikaze
- Refresher Course for Wives
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Contract Officer Shirai
- Intimidation as Matakichi Nakaike
- The Angry Sea
- Everything Goes Wrong as Nishimura
- The Lost Alibi as Okudaira
- The Sleeping Beast Within
- Wait for Tomorrow as Uno
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Boss
- Yakuza sensei
- The Blue Beast
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Yang Sanyuan
- The Call of the Foghorn as Morimoto
- Sixteen years old
- The Last Trump Card as Chibi (Shorty)
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Towering Waves
- The Devil's Sigh
1959
- The Song of the Cart
- My Second Brother as Goro Mitamura
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- Break Down that Wall
- Elegy to Youth
- Tokyo Romance Way
- The Human Cyclone
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- Light The Explosives as Sakamaki (Trade journal reporter)
- おヤエの家つき女中
- Umi wa kurutte iru
- The Wild Reporter as Ryu Konei
- The Fugitive
- 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 Invisible Wall
- Stolen Desire as Kanji Takada
- Showdown in the Storm
- Crimson Wings as Tetsuji Mizutani
- Tokyo Bus Girl
- Drunken Ghost as Daigorô
- Wolves of the Night
- Nishi Ginza Station
- Fangs of Night
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Tominaga
- Breasts and Bullets
- The Girl from Osaka
- Zoku fûfu hyakkei as Masakichi
- The Seasons of Love as Reporter
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kiyami no Shinko
- The Temptress and the Monk as Peasant
- Who's the Real Killer as Nakagawa
- But the Flesh is Weak as Acupressurist
- Shiroi natsu
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Hikobei
- Harbor Rats
- Devil Flesh
- Saigo no totsugeki
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Baba
- Frankie the Milkman as Tax Collector
- Lunar Eclipse
- Excursion to Treasure Isle
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Where's Paradise?
- Fountainhead as Kasuya
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Dotanba
- Avalanche
- Meiken monogatari
1955
1954
- A Billionaire
- The Street Without Sun as Extraordinary detective
1952
- Vacuum Zone as Sergeant Osumi