Akitake Kōno
Birthday: 1911-10-08
Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Japan
Biography: Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武 Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973. Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.
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Sisters
Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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Flesh Smuggling
A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sai...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a host...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline...
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Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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Cell No. 8
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their bud...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader w...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the ...
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Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and change...
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The Outsiders
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most no...
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Mid-August Commotion
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers workin...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th...
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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her gua...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record ...
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治郎吉格子
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man w...
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi S...
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Hana no shôgai
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was ...
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The Story of Shunkin
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy busines...
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振袖釼法
In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marry...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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When a Woman Loves
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman....
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The Shape of Night
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate aff...
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The Temptress and the Monk
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lover...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...
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Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of a...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the reveng...
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The Lord's spy
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitima...
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The Most Beautiful
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese stu...
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Hibari's Tale of Pathos
Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a...
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Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At ...
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Battle Troop
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are go...
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Till We Meet Again
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....
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The Conspirator
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, dau...
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Heiji, the Detective
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investiga...
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Military Song of the Morning Mist
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times....
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A Fishwife's Tale
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she...
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Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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Duel at Yagyu Valley
During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend ...
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The Man of Seven Faces
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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Satan's Town
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their rela...
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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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Tange Sazen
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refus...
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Three Women of the North
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...
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The Cannery Boat
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppress...
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Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the ...
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Wind, Woman and Road
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmer...
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Broken Swords
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...
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Castle of Owls
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi ...
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a g...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (N...
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Farewell, My Beloved
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Ma...
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Ken
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedic...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva...
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Souls in the Moonlight III
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be ser...
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Mo...
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Traveling in Party
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri....
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The Hidden Treasure
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....
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Castle of Flames
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his ...
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Nerves for Victory
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading ...
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The Envoy
Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from t...
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Okatsu the Fugitive
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good ...
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Four Marriages
Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls i...
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Tower of Lilies
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the isla...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf ba...
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Three Gamblers
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio en...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. A...
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Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...
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Actress
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some ...
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Lady From Hell
Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in ...
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The Last Women
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the America...
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Restoration Fire
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh...
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Happily Tied to the Road
With flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the wrath of...
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Ninja Assassins
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi....
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The Samurai of Edo
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
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The Great Road
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways ...
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Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacatio...
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おばこ船頭さん
A group of fishing boats dot the deep blue lake with white clouds rolling by. A heartwarming lyrical...
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The Gion Tempest
The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the soci...
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Kobushi dakedenki kettō jigoku
In search of the key to Takeda Shingen's hidden treasure, journey from the shadowy depths of Edo to ...
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The Viper Brothers
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji...
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Hinoki butai
The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community c...
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