Bokuzen Hidari
Born: 1894-02-20 in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan
Died: 1971-05-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Bokuzen Hidari (左 卜全 Hidari Bokuzen, 20 February 1894 - 26 May 1971) was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Lower Depths and Ikiru. Hidari was famous among Japanese audiences for his portrayals of meek, downtrodden men, and although a teetotaller, was renowned for his convincing drunk scenes (see esp. "Ikiru").
Filmography
1971
- Follow the Girls as Shima-san
- New Shameless School as Alfata Jinbei
- Live and Learn as Janitor
- Kaiun ryokō
1970
- The Walking Major as Boilerman
- Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Jinbei
- Rainbow Over Paris as Koji Minagawa
- Oh, My Comrade!
- Three Pretty Devils as Old man
- Rebel Against Glory
- Shameless School as Jinbei
- Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
- Tora-san, His Tender Love as Toku
- Fear of Sex
- Five Gents and a Kuniang as Aso Chairman
- The Little Hero
- Get Your Sky, Young Guy
- Life is a Battle
- Brothers of Capones
- Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
- Love Fantasia
1969
- Red Lion as Gohei
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
- Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts as Jinbei
- Sex and Life
- Madcap Mixup as Police chief
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
- Our Wasteland
- Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2
- Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure
- Woman
- Season of Tears
1967
1966
- Black Tight Killers as Momochi
- Gamblers' Luck
- Ohana han as Gosuke
- Ohana han: Dai ni bu as Gosuke
- Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga as Clerk at "Iyami-yu"
- Big Wind from Tokyo as Obata Seiichi
1965
- Red Beard as Patient A
- Gamera, the Giant Monster as Old Farmer
- Sanshiro Sugata as Priest
- The Abalone Gals
- 喜劇 各駅停車
- The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice as Takichi
- Secret Club 000
1964
- Three Outlaw Samurai as Sakusan
- Hail the 3 Gents as Kuroda (President of Taisho Paper)
- Samurai from Nowhere
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- Zatoichi's Flashing Sword as Kyubei
- The Rabble
- Red Diamond
1963
- Beyond the Green Hills
- Street of Wandering Men
- Young Guy in Hawaii as 古屋老人
- Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
- Siege of Fort Bismarck
- Jolly Barbers
- Young Swordsman as Otsuka Kihei
- The Sunshine Girl
- Girls Born in August
- A Fishmonger's Tour
- Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
- A Devil of a Gentleman
- A Lawless Outpost
- Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
- 恋と出世に強くなれ！ as 杉本
- Onsen Geisha as Ichisuke
1962
- Pride of the Campus as Prof. Ishiwaki
- College Champ
- Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
- Shin kitsune to tanuki
- Otoko no Uta
- Local Reporter
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- Danger Pays as Sakamoto, the Expert
- Curry Rice
- Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
- This Madding Crowd
- Ponkotsu oyaji
- Nippon no obaachan
- Red Bud and White Flower
- Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
- My Hobo
- 次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
1961
- The Youth and His Amulet
- Playboy President as Chairman Yokoyama
- 20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
- Invitation to the Enchanted Town
- Botchan yarō seizoroi
- Tange Sazen and the Princess
- Wakai yatsura no kaidan
- An Urban Affair as Kinnosuke Togura
- Boss Takes to the Road
- Sararīman yajikita dōchū
- Hijō no otoko
- The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream
- Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
- 痛快太郎
- Sir Galahad in Campus as Prof. Ishiwaki
1960
- The Human Vapor as Jiya
- The Sun's Burial
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Clerk at Haruyoshi Inn
- Lord Mito: All Star Version
- Mighty Shosuke
- Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as University Staff
- Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
- お嬢さん三度笠
- Kirai Kirai Kirai
- Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
- The Angry Sea
- Volunteering for Villainy
1959
- The Three Treasures as God Amenominaka
- A Whistle in My Heart
- Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
- Souls in the Moonlight III as Doan
- Four Hours of Terror as Old man
- The White Road Across the River
- Ripe and Marriageable as Salesman
- Fox and Raccoon as Hidematsu Yasufuku
- Red Pants
- Age of Nudity as Gen-ji
- A Young Boss Tries Really Hard as Kōbei
- 3 Dolls in College
- Echo Mountain
1958
- The Rickshaw Man
- Souls in the Moonlight II as Doan
- Yaji and Kita on the Road
- The Princess of Badger Palace as Awa-no-Kami
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Village Head Akamatsu
- The Child Writers as Nakahara
- The Hotelman's Holiday as Teacher
- Hana no yukyo-den
- A Bridge for Two Alone
- Island of Fury
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- Botchan as Janitor
- Secret of The Golden Spell as Tamaru Mondonosho
- The Young Boss is Third Generation as Kōbei, Yukichi’s Grandfather
- The Invisible Wall
1957
- The Lower Depths as Kahei the Pilgrim
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls
- Untamed Woman as Old man
- Travel Romances
- Souls in the Moonlight as Doctor Doan
- On Wings of Love as Heikichi Kobayashi
- Hadaka no Machi
- The Men of Toho-ku
- The Chieko Story as Gohei
- First Love Story as Mr. Hashimoto
- Story of a Detective's Assistant as Heikichi, Heikurō's father
1956
1955
- I Live in Fear as Landowner
- All is Well as Hikoichi Okubo
- Forever a Woman as Hide's Husband
- House of Many Pleasures as Florist
- The Wolves
- Yukiko
- A Hole of My Own Making
- Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
- Shōnen shikeishū
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- Subarashiki shōtai
- Love Never Fails
- Lovetide as Factory owner (uncredited)
- Rikidozan: Man of Fury
1954
1952
- Ikiru as Ohara
- Vendetta of a Samurai
- Today is Payday as Section chief
- Beauty and the Thief
- 恐妻時代
- Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido as Genji
- Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to as Shiro's grandpa
- Shi no machi wo nogarete
- Foghorn
- The Man Who Came to Port as Kan-jii
1951
- The Idiot as Karube
- Elegy
- The Life of a Horse Trader as Gosaku
- The White Orchid
- Miki, the Swordman
- The Blue Pearl as Riu's father
- Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
- Wagtail Tune
1950
- Scandal as Drunk
- Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog as Peasant