Minoru Chiaki
Birthday: 1917-04-28
Place of Birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Minoru Chiaki (千秋 実 Chiaki Minoru) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Minoru Chiaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife....
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Godzilla Raids Again
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 1
With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, w...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda....
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusiv...
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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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Bodyguard from Hell
Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situatio...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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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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The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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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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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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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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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask start...
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Samurai Vagabonds
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the ...
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Eight Views of Samurai
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is as...
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....
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What Price Love?
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebra...
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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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Inu to Asachan
A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the he...
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus....
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Shinran, Part II
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. ...
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, kno...
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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he ...
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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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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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Yakuza of Ina
Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventu...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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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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Don Matsugoro's Big Adventure
Don Matsugoro and his son Don Jr fight against a disgustingly reach family who tries to take over a ...
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The Scroll’s Secret
Shogun Yoshitane’s order to recover the secret scroll triggers a series of ninja warfare during the ...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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Run, Genta, Run!
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of findin...
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The Vampire Moth
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask....
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Mother's First Love
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and d...
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Beyond the Hills
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....
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The Paper Crane
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con ...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from ...
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The Phantom Goblin
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears ...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. T...
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The Ambitious Youth
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flouri...
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Black Thief
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land....
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Sasuke and His Comedians
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr...
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A House in the Quarter
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successfu...
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Mole Alley
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 1...
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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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Drunken Sword
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authori...
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Five Ronins
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oich...
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The Christian Revolt
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant....
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Goblin in Stirrups
Kurama Tengu is a hero to the common people, saving them from the malicious attacks of Kinnoroshi an...
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The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god ...
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Scarier than the Devil
A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu”...
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Karafuto 1945 Summer
The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of...
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Beauty and the Thief
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and erot...
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Taking the Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was...
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Street of Wandering Men
When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides ...
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Mighty Shosuke
A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to s...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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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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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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Pilgrimage at Night
Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-lengt...
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Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, ...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed ...
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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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The Scarlet Cherry Lord
Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. H...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the ...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Song of Love
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people....
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Official with a Tattoo
Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not ...
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Won't Stand for Dying
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. How...
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Fearless Opposition
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza....
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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 Sharks
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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Talkative Company President
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold ...
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The Shadow Daughter
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...
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The Mandarin Room
After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she f...
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Skin-Colored Moon
After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drown...
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Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku
A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu...
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Flower's Yearning
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while ...
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A Strong Wind Blows
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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