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who appeared in eleven of

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 ...

's films, including ''

Rashomon is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/crime film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori (actor), Masayuki Mori, and ...

'', ''

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 ...

'', ''

Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' from Medieval Scotland to feudal Ja ...

'', and ''

The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of two peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy lines in return for gold without knowing that he is a general and the woman is a pri ...

''. He was also one of Kon Ichikawa's favorite actors. He attended, but did not graduate from,

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. Later in his career, he appeared as a secondary actor in many Toei films. In 1986, he was given the Best Actor prize at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony for his performance in Toei's '' Gray Sunset'' (1985). He died of cardiac and pulmonary failure at age 82. His son

Katsuhiko Sasaki is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He is the son of Minoru Chiaki. Education Born in Tokyo. Sasaki graduated the Hosei University Faculty of Business Administration. Filmography Films * '' Battle of Okinawa'' (1971) (Communi ...

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Filmography

Film

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'' (1949) - Girlie Show director *''

Rashōmon is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/ crime film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as ...

'' (1950) - Priest *''Nanairo no hana'' (1950) - Tahei Izumi *''Koi no Oranda-zaka'' (1951) - Suekichi *''

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'' (1951) - Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary *''Araki Mataemon: Kettô kagiya no tsuji'' (1952) *''

Mōjū tsukai no shōjo is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kōzō Saeki. Overview Chiemi Eri sings in the film. Cast * Chiemi Eri * Jun Negami * Kazuko Fushimi * Jōji Oka * Minoru Chiaki * Ayako Wakao See also * List of films in the public do ...

'' (1952) *''Bijo to touzoku'' (1952) - Takeichi no Takamaru *''Kyô wa kaisha no gekkyûbi'' (1952) - Chief of General Affairs *''

Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. Th ...

'' (1952) - Noguchi *''Mogura yokochô'' (1953) *''

'' (1954) - Heihachi Hayashida, one of the samurai *''Shunkin monogatari'' (1954) - Teizo *''Kakute yume ari'' (1954) - Sensuke Nasu *''Saizansu nitôryû'' (1954) - Kojirô Sasaki / Daijirô - His son / Danjûrô - Travelling actor *''

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'' (1955) - Kobayashi *''Ryanko no Yatarô'' (1955) - Gozematsu *''Kaettekita wakadan'na'' (1955) - Igarashi *''

I Live in Fear is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, produced by Sōjirō Motoki, and co-written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni. The film is about an elderly Japanese factory owner so terrified of the prospect of a nuclear a ...

'' (1955) - Jiro Nakajima *''Jirochô yûkyôden: amagi garasu'' (1955) *'' Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island'' (1956) - Sasuke the boatman *''Kyûketsu-ga'' (1956) - Sango Kawase *''

A Wife's Heart is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Plot Kiyoko lives with her husband Shinji and Shinji's mother in the family's house, where the married couple runs a not-too-successful food store. Although their marriage is not happy, it i ...

'' (1956) - Zenichi *''Narazu-mono'' (1956) - Sobei *''Gendai no yokubô'' (1956) - Mikami *''Oshidori no mon'' (1956) *''Oshaberi shacho'' (1957) *''

Throne Of Blood is a 1957 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' from Medieval Scotland to feudal Ja ...

'' (1957) - Yoshiaki Miki *''Ujô'' (1957) - Kenkichi Tanabe *''Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku'' (1957) - Motohashi - Drug Salesman *''Hikage no musume'' (1957) *''Tôhoku no zunmu-tachi'' (1957) - Tasuke *'' The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)'' (1957) - Tonosama - the former Samurai *''Hadairo no tsuki'' (1957) - Umekichi Ishikura *''Ninjutsu suikoden inazuma kotengu'' (1958) *''Futari dake no hashi'' (1958) - Kaikichi Ishida *''

Anzukko is a 1958 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a novel by Saisei Murō. Plot Kyoko, daughter of successful writer Hirayama, rejects several marriage prospects before taking Ryokichi, owner of a small used book store, a ...

'' (1958) - Saburo Yoshida *''Uguisu-jô no hanayome'' (1958) *''Hana no bojô'' (1958) - Fukuzô Yanami *''

'' (1958) - Tahei *''Oshaberi okusan'' (1959) *''Sengoku gunto-den'' (1959) - Jibu *''Naniwa no koi no monogatari'' (1959) *''Anyakôro'' (1959) - Nobuyuki Tokito *''

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'' (1959) - Onodera Heichô *''Sâtsu rarete tama ruka (I)'' (1960) *''Mito Komon 3: All Star Version'' (1960) *''Case of a Young Lord 8'' (1960) - Sasajima Toshizo *''Shinran'' (1960) - Seizenbo *''Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri'' (1960) - Jôsuke *''Shirakoya Komako'' (1960) - Matashirô *''Zoku shinran'' (1960) *''Yatarô gasa'' (1960) - Kichitaro *''Gen to fudômyô-ô'' (1961) *''Hadakakko'' (1961) - Sandwich man *''Ashita aru kagiri'' (1962) *'' The Inheritance'' (1962) - Junichi Fujii *''Amakusa Shirô Tokisada'' (1962) - Sôho Tanaka *''

Love Under the Crucifix is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. Love Under the Crucifix is the last film Tanaka directed. The film was adapted from Tōkō Kon's novel ''Ogin-sama''. The film is a bittersweet love story between Sen no Rikyū's daugh ...

'' *''Chiisakobe'' (1962) - Dairoku *''Kigeki: Detatoko shôbu - 'Chinjarara monogatari' yori'' (1962) - Tarô Yamada *''Hibari Chiemi no Yaji Kita Dochu'' (1963) *''Hibari Chiemi no oshidori senryô gasa'' (1963) *'' High and Low'' (1963) - Journalist *''Uogashi no sempû musume'' (1963) *''Gobanchô yûgirirô'' (1963) - Takematsu *''

Brave Records of the Sanada Clan is a Japanese film directed by Tai Kato in 1963. It is a jidaigeki musical film, musical about Sasuke Sarutobi and the Sanada Ten Braves who, under the leadership of Yukimura Sanada, try to defend Toyotomi Hideyori during the Siege of Osaka, si ...

'' (1963) -

Yukimura Sanada , also known as , was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the defending side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called "A Hero who may appear once in a hundred years", "Crimson D ...

*''Rojingai no kaoyaku'' (1963) - Fujimura Genzaemon *''The Body'' (1964) - Sasaki *''Samé'' (1964) - Shirosa *''Kono sora no aru kagiri'' (1964) - Ryûtarô Nogami *''

Taking The Castle also known as "Shirotori" is a 1965 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Toshio Masuda. The film is the first film to be released from Yūjirō Ishihara's company Ishihara Promotion.日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第十一� ...

'' (1965) - Sanai *''Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan'' (1965) - Nakagawa (episode 1) *''Zero faita dai kûsen'' (1966) *''

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'' (1966) - Apartment Superintendent *''

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'' (1966) - Kidayu Momose *''Hatamoto yakuza'' (1966) *''Ai no Sanka'' (1967) - The Ship-master *''Sei no kigen'' (1967) - Girl's father *''Nippon ichi no danzetsu otoko'' (1969) - Shimizu *''Yoru no isoginchaku'' (1970) - Pastor *''

Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon is a 1974 Japanese film based on the Soviet Union's invasion of Karafuto during the Soviet–Japanese War near the end of World War II. The movie is set in Maoka (present day Kholmsk), and the story is based on the deaths of nine women who worked ...

'' (1974) - Planter *''Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e'' (1977) *''Tokugawa ichizoku no houkai'' (1980) *'' Gray Sunset'' (''Hana Ichimonme'') (1985) - Fuyukichi Takano *''Don Matsugorô no daibôken'' (1987) - Amenomori Seikai (final film role)

Television

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Kunitori Monogatari is a 1973 Japanese television series. It is the eleventh NHK ''taiga'' drama. Plot The series is set in the Sengoku period. Based on Ryōtarō Shiba`s novel of the same name. The story chronicles the lives of Dosan Saito and Nobunaga Oda. Pro ...

'' (1973) -

Oda Nobuhide was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and magistrate of the Sengoku period known as "Tiger of Owari" and also the father of Oda Nobunaga the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobuhide was a deputy ''shugo'' (Shugodai) of lower Owari Province and head of the ...

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Edo no Kaze was a Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) broadcast on prime-time television that ran from 1975 to 1981. Its lead star was Yūzō Kayama. The series was based on Kazuo Shimada's novel of the same title. It became a popular broadcast, leading to th ...

'' (1975) *''Sekigahara'' (1981) -

Yamauchi Kazutoyo , also spelled Yamanouchi (1545/1546? – November 1, 1605). He was retainer of Oda Nobunaga and later Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His father Yamauchi Moritoyo, was a descendant of Fujiwara no Hidesato, a senior retainer of the Iwakura Oda clan (op ...

Honours

* Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1989)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chiaki, Minoru 1917 births 1999 deaths Actors from Hokkaido Japanese male film actors 20th-century Japanese male actors Chuo University alumni