was a Japanese
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
best known for his role as Gorobei in
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 ''
Seven Samurai''.
In addition to his career in film, Inaba was also a prolific theater actor and a member of the prestigious
Haiyuza Theatre Company
The is a Japanese theatre company based in Tokyo, Japan. Along with the Mingei Theatre Company and Bungakuza it is considered one of the "Big Three" among Shingeki theatre troupes.
Former Members
*Eijirō Tōno
*Koreya Senda
*Eitaro Ozawa
...
.
Filmography
Film
* ''Umi no hanabi'' (1951)
* ''Wakare-gumo'' (1951)
* '' Seven Samurai'' (1954) - Gorobei Katayama
* ''Horafuki tanji'' (1954) - Escaped Prisoner Iwagorō
* ' (1955) - Mijagi
* '' Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple'' (続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) (1955)
* ''Uruwashiki haha'' (1955) - Shigematsu
* ''Shujinsen'' (1956)
* ''Arashi
is a Japanese boy band consisting of five members formed under the Johnny & Associates talent agency. The members are Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Jun Matsumoto. Arashi officially formed on September 15, ...
'' (1956) - Detective of the special political police
* ''Mitsu-kubi-tou'' (1956) - Shōshichi Kitō
* ''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 ...
'' (1957) - Third Military Commander
* ''Ninjitsu'' (1957)
* ''Jun'ai Monogatari
is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival where Imai won the Silver Bear for Best Director.
Cast
* Shinjirō Ehara as Hayakawa Kantaro
* Hitomi Nakahara
* Eiji Okada
* Isa ...
'' (1957) - Doctor at Nisseki Hospital
* ''Ballad of the Cart
is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto. It was written by Yoshikata Yoda, based on a novel by activist Tomoe Yamashiro.
Plot
In Hiroshima Prefecture during the Meiji era, simple housemaid Seki accepts the proposal of Moichi ...
'' (1959) - Fujitaro
* '' Fires on the Plain'' (1959)
* ''Fujimi no otoko'' (1960)
* ''Haru no yume'' (1960) - Yamada
* ''Matsukawa-Jiken'' (1961)
* ''Gokai senryo yari'' (1961) - Shibata
* ''Kutsukake Tokijirō'' (1961) - Shōten
* ''Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi'' (1962) - Shizuo Iwasaki
* ''Woman of Design'' (1962) - Yasuda
* ''Destiny's Son
is a 1962 Japanese chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi starring Raizo Ichikawa and written by Kaneto Shindo, released by Daiei Film. The film is based on one of the novels in the series of Nemuri Kyoshirō, written by Renzaburō Shibata.
...
'' (1962) - Giichirō Ikebe
* ''Harakiri
, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri (, , a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese people ...
'' (1962) - Jinai Chijiiwa
* ''Zoku rokunin shimai'' (1962)
* ''Yōsō'' (1963)
* ''Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki'' (1964) - Ronin (uncredited)
* ''Ken
Ken or KEN may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer.
* ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film.
* ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine.
* Ken Masters, a main character in ...
'' (1964) - Seiichiro Kokubun
* ''Kōge - Nibu: Mitsumata no shō'' (1964)
* ''The Great Killing'' (1964)
* ''Nemuri Kyōshirō: Joyōken'' (1964) - Bizen-ya the Merchant
* ''Samurai Assassin
is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It is set in 1860, immediately before the Meiji Restoration changed Japanese society forever by doing awa ...
'' (1965) - Keijiro Sumita
* ''Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Satan'' (1965) - Mizuno
* ''Taiheiyō kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka'' (1965) - Tamai
* ''Kemonomichi'' (1965)
* ''The Guardman: Tokyo yōjimbō'' (1965) - Yoshida
* ''Gohiki no shinshi'' (1966)
* ''Onna no naka ni iru tanin'' (1966)
* ''The Guardman: Tokyo Ninja Butai'' (1966) - Yoshida
* ''Hikinige'' (1966)
* ''Ichiman sanzennin'' (1966)
* ''Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei'' (1967)
* ''Chichi to ko: Zoku Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku'' (1967)
* ''Nemuri Kyōshirō burai-hikae: Mashō no hada'' (1967)
* ''Rengō kantai shirei chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku'' (1968) - Chief of Staff Ugaki
* '' Battle of the Japan Sea'' (1969) - Chief of Staff Officer Shimamura
* ''Kage no kuruma'' (1970)
* ''Wakamono no hata'' (1970)
* ''Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71'' (1971) - Yoshitarō Araki
* ''Silence
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'' (1971) - Prisoner official
* ''Shinobu-ito'' (1973)
* ''Yajū gari'' (1973) - Onimaru
* '' Kaseki'' (1974)
* ''Karei-naru Ichizoku is a 1973 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1974 and then three times as a television series in 1974, 2007, and 2021.
Plot
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the show explores the struggle for po ...
'' (1974) - Ichinose Factory's owner
* ''Castle of Sand
is a 1974 Japanese police procedural film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on the novel '' Suna no Utsuwa'' by Seicho Matsumoto.
Plot
Yoshitaro Nomura's 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto's immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two ...
'' (1974) - Search chief clerk
* ''Koi wa midori no kaze no naka'' (1974)
* ''Shōwa karesusuki'' (1975)
* ''Gokumon-tō'' (1977) - Village Mayor Makihei Araki
* ''Village of Eight Gravestones'' (1977) - Ochimusha
* ''Mitsuyaku: Gaimushō kimitsu rōei jiken'' (1978) - Nakada
* ''Kumokiri Nizaemon'' (1978) - Seizō
* ''Nihon no don: kanketsuhen'' (1978) - Satomi
* ''Mito Kōmon
is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-''sh ...
'' (1978) - Kihei
* '' Blue Christmas'' (1978)
* ''The Battle of Port Arthur
is a 1980 Japanese war film directed by Toshio Masuda. The Japanese title "Ni hyaku san kochi" means 203 Hill. The film depicts the fiercest battles at 203 Hill in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905.
Cast
* Tat ...
'' (1980) - Ijichi Kōsuke
* '' Willful Murder'' (1981) - Horii
* ''Matagi'' (1982) - Kokichi Suzuki
* '' The Challenge'' (1982) - Instructor
* ''Battle Anthem'' (1983) - Kamimura
* ''Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō'' (1983)
* ''Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta'' (1983) - Kenzo Tashiro
* '' Yōkirō'' (1983)
* '' Kita no hotaru'' (1984) - Bessho (final film role)
Television
* ''Taikōki
The is a biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of '' taikō'' during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history. The Confucian scholar (1564–1640) published the work in 1626 during the rule of the third Tokugawa shōgu ...
'' (1965) as Katō Kiyotada
* ''Daichūshingura (Dai Chushingura) is a Japanese television dramatization of the events of the Forty-seven Ronin. The first episode aired on January 5, 1971, and the 52nd and final episode appeared on December 28 of the same year. The NET network broadcast it in th ...
'' (1971) as Kajikawa Yoriteru
was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period, who served as a lesser official in the Tokugawa shogunate. He was also known as . Kajikawa served on guard duty in Edo Castle.
Upon inheriting family headship, he became ''hatamoto'' (the direct vassal o ...
* ''Amigasa Jūbei
is a Japanese television ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was broadcast from 1974 to 1975. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel by the same title. It depicts the stories of Tsukimori Jūbei and the Forty-seven rōnin. A remake was aired in 1 ...
'' (1974–75)
* ''Tōge no Gunzō'' (1982) as Inakichi
References
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1920 births
1998 deaths
People from Narita, Chiba
Actors from Chiba Prefecture
20th-century Japanese male actors
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