Isao Kimura
Birthday: 1923-06-22
Place of Birth: Senda, Hiroshima, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isao Kimura (木村 功 Kimura Isao), also known as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog (1949) as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable collaboration with Kurosawa was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai, Katsushiro. During his career he also appeared in several films directed by Mikio Naruse as well as appearing in the famous Lone Wolf and Cub film series. In addition to a film career spanning almost thirty years, Kimura founded and directed an acting company which ultimately went bankrupt. He died of esophageal cancer at 57 years old.
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murde...
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Young Lord Yakuza
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the d...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Black Lizard
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get t...
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Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
The story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became a ho...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for ...
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Assassination
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescenc...
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Affair in the Snow
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volati...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end ...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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Beautiful Days
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists....
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his supe...
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A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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Conquest
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to sedu...
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Showdown in Blood
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to j...
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Our Marriage
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....
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Ofukuro
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dr...
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Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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Vacuum Zone
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t...
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Impasse
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to...
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The Woman and the Pirate
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there wa...
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Where did Sharaku go?
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed,...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second...
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Sky Scraper!
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan....
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Hokkaido, My Love
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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Confessions Among Actresses
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is...
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Hero of the Red Light District
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindn...
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The Affair
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger ...
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Still I Live On
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvatio...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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The Angry Street
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown ...
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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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Beyond Love and Hate
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife...
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Snow Country
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha ...
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Dancing Girl
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot...
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Rice
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery ...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with ea...
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Secret Information
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent...
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The End of a Day
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The of...
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Tokyo Detective Girl
Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case....
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses ...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple i...
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompa...
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Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
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Akutoku
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern ...
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The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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Weeping Doll
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan....
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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Invitation from the Beach
A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madnes...
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The Yamabiko School
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village....
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outsp...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Yakuza of Seki
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. ...
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Fill the Cup with Blood
Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn betw...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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At the End of the Clouds
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots....
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
A luxury car was stolen near a certain nightclub in Akasaka, and the owner of the car was shot and k...
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The Brass General
Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. militar...
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The Wife is a University Student
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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