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)
- Down with The Big Boss as Glass-Eating Mime
- Nomugi Pass
- The Strangling as Yasuzo Kariba
1978
- Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo as Mamo (voice)
- Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Shigetomi Katta
- The Incident as Goichi Ômura
- The Beauty in the Bathroom
- Love and Faith as Sojin Kamiya
1977
- Yokomizo Seishi Series
- Fushoku no kōzō as Honda Yoshikazu
- Love in the Mud
- Japan's Don as Kahe Shimabara
- Hokuriku Proxy War as Mr. Yasuhara
1976
- Manhunt as Nagaoka Ryokai
- Elegy as Nobuhisa Hyodo
- Skyscraper Murder Case
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
- The Bodyguard
- Wounded Angels as Detective Kaizu
- Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi
- The Family as Sentaro Watanuki
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Old bean-seller
- 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
- When the Night Breaks
- Summer Days Across the River
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
- Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- Shinjuku Plaza
- Second Generation Young Boss as Yanosuke Hashimoto
- Kanto Woman Infamy
- Quick-draw Okatsu as Makabe
- 喜劇 深夜族
- Black Rose Mansion as Ex-husband
- One Two Punch
- ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩 as 寺田保造
- Lady with Seven Faces as Printer
- The Wild Sea as Munekata
1968
- Black Lizard as Detective Matoba
- Neon taiheiki
- The Bride from Hades as Banzou
- Samaritan Zatoichi as Sosuke Saruya
- Living Skeleton as Nishizato
- Snake Woman's Curse as Yasuke
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
- New Year Trip
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
- Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Policeman on Island
- A Lavish Invitation
1967
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Uneshiro Suga
- Samurai Wolf II as Magobe
- Eleven Samurai as Errant samurai Daijuro
- A Killer's Key as Yasujiro Endo
- Flower Cards Chivalry
- Classmates as Hanada
- The Singing Gunman
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Itakura
- Express Train
- Whispering Joe as Man
1966
- The Sword of Doom as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
- The Pornographers as Detective Sanada
- Debt of Honor as Iinuma
- Rise Against the Sword as Etanba
- The Threat as Kawanishi
- Dokonjo Taisho
- Seven Gamblers
- Rub Out the Past as Tanzo Koide
1965
- Red Beard as Chief retainer
- The Retreat from Kiska as Staff Officer
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire as Tahei Narumiya
- Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as 今川義元
- Stairs of Evil as Shimoyama
- Tale of Japanese Burglars
- The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
- House of Terrors as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback
- Tale of Ninja Duty as Chisaka Hyobu
1964
- Giant Rumble
- Intentions of Murder as Koichi Takahashi
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- The Spying Sorceress
- The Desperate as Yamaguchi
- The Scarlet Camellia as Sakichi
- Warrior of the Wind as Mizuno Izumi
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Enzo Tatara
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
- The Glamorous Ghost as Hiroshi Asami
- The Gorgeous Geisha
- An Impudent Man
1963
- High and Low as Third Creditor
- Life of a Flower as Tada Ichiro
- Apple Blossom Town
- 13 Assassins as Kujuro Hirayama
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Yamaoka
- Tale of Army Brutality as Kameoka, Zenji
- Doggie March as Killer (voice)
- Attack Squadron as Petty Officer Inaba
- Escape from Hell as Heiroku
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor
- Pressure of Guilt
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- Bad Reputation: Three Notorious Men
- Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Chubei
- The Maid Story
- Miren as Okazaki
- At the Side of the Bridge 4
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- The Life of a Horse-Trader
1962
- Gorath as Murata - Secretary of Space
- The Temple of Wild Geese as Mokudō Kida
- My Hobo
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins as Kizaru
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Yamiya
- Farm Girls as Gosaku
- The Body
- At the Side of the Bridge 2
- Woman of Design
- Curry Rice
- At the Side of the Bridge
- Four Sisters as Michiharu Mitsumine
- Haru no sanmyaku
- I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
- Tokyo Bay as Noboru Sumikawa
- Let's Meet in Our Dreams
- Gang vs. Gang
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Kono ni uruwashi
- Mount Hakone
1961
- Yojimbo as Kuma
- The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- A Man in Red
- Blind Devotion as Denroku
- Pigs and Battleships as Yajima
- Killers on Parade as Sai
- Aces Wild
- The Wind and Waves
- Tale of a Company Boss 3 as Hanada
- Tale of a Company Boss
- Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
- Zero Focus as Sotaro Uhara
- For This We Fight
- Hidden Fangs
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
- Snow in the South Seas
- Eternity of Love
- Shiroi minamikaze
- Refresher Course for Wives
- An Angel is Chasing Me
- The Matsukawa Incident
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Contract Officer Shirai
- The Angry Sea
- The Call of the Foghorn as Morimoto
- The Last Trump Card as Chibi (Shorty)
- Towering Waves
- The Blue Beast
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Everything Goes Wrong as Nishimura
- The Sleeping Beast Within
- Yakuza sensei
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Yang Sanyuan
- Sixteen years old
- Wait for Tomorrow as Uno
- Intimidation as Matakichi Nakaike
- The Lost Alibi as Okudaira
- Showdown on Pier No.3 as Boss
- The Devil's Sigh
1959
- My Second Brother as Goro Mitamura
- おヤエの家つき女中
- The Human Cyclone
- Break Down that Wall
- おヤエのママさん女中
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- The Wild Reporter as Ryu Konei
- Light The Explosives as Sakamaki (Trade journal reporter)
- Tokyo Romance Way
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- Elegy to Youth
- The Fugitive
- The Song of the Cart
- Umi wa kurutte iru
- Tsuki wa chikyū o mawatteru
1958
- The Ballad of Narayama as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
- The Invisible Wall
- Endless Desire as Pharmacist
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Tominaga
- Wolves of the Night
- The Seasons of Love as Reporter
- Fangs of Night
- Drunken Ghost as Daigorô
- Crimson Wings as Tetsuji Mizutani
- Showdown in the Storm
- Nishi Ginza Station
- Tokyo Bus Girl
- Stolen Desire as Kanji Takada
- Zoku fûfu hyakkei as Masakichi
- The Girl from Osaka
- Breasts and Bullets
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kiyami no Shinko
- Devil Flesh
- Who's the Real Killer as Nakagawa
- Shiroi natsu
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Hikobei
- Saigo no totsugeki
- But the Flesh is Weak as Acupressurist
- Harbor Rats
- The Temptress and the Monk as Peasant
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Baba
- Frankie the Milkman as Tax Collector
- Fountainhead as Kasuya
- Avalanche
- Lunar Eclipse
- Excursion to Treasure Isle
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Dotanba
- Tengoku wa doko da
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Meiken monogatari
1955
1954
- The Street Without Sun as Extraordinary detective
- A Billionaire
1952
- Vacuum Zone as Sergeant Osumi