, real name Tanigawa Saichirō (谷川 佐市郎), was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.
Career
Kōdō first began acting on the stage in 1901 in
shinpa
(also rendered ''shimpa'') is a form of theater in Japan, usually featuring melodramatic stories, contrasted with the more traditional ''kabuki'' style. It later spread to cinema.
Art form
The roots of ''Shinpa'' can be traced to a form of agi ...
dramas.
He joined the
Teikine studio in 1923, and after the war, the
Toho Studio.
He appeared in numerous films by
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
, most notably in ''
Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. It follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who hire seven ...
'' as the village elder.
Filmography
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kodo, Kokuten
1887 births
1960 deaths
People from Takasago, Hyōgo
Japanese male film actors