Kinya Kitaoji
Acting • Born 1943-02-23
Biography
Early life: He was born in Kyoto, son of jidaigeki film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ⅱ in Tokyo. Acting career: Kin'ya made his debut with his father in the 1956 Toei film Oyakodaka in the role of Katsu Kaishū. He is a contemporary of, and was taken to be a rival of, Hiroki Matsukata, who was also the son of a famous actor (Jūshirō Konoe). In 1964, Kin'ya made his first appearance on stage in Cyrano de Bergerac. The 1960s and 1970s saw him in many contemporary roles. He appeared in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as well as Karei naru Ichizoku. The title role in the 1975 film Takehisa Yumeji was his. On television, Kitaōji portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in the Nippon Television show of the same name. A major historical role was Sakamoto Ryōma in the year-long prime-time NHK Taiga drama Ryōma ga Yuku (1968). He landed the title role in the long-running cop show Zenigata Heiji, set in the Edo period. In the 1985 twelve-hour New Year special Fūun Yagyū Bugeichō, he played Yagyū Jūbei, and in the following year's special, he portrayed both Tokugawa Yoshimune and Yagyū Shinrokurō. The role of another shogun fell to him in the following new year as TV Tokyo tapped him to play Tokugawa Iemitsu. Kin'ya returned to NHK for the 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune as Date Terumune, father of title character Date Masamune. Another role he took had been created by his father. Saotome Mondonosuke was the title character in the series Gozonji! Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko. It ran from 1988 to 1994 on TV Asahi. His father, Ichikawa Utaemon, had appeared in numerous films as Mondonosuke. Kin'ya reprised the part of Miyamoto Musashi in the 1990 New Year's special. Toshirō Mifune had portrayed Musashi in the earlier film, also based on the Eiji Yoshikawa story, that had won an Academy Award. He returned to the New Year's special in 1996, again as the famous swordsman, in Tokugawa Kengōden Sore kara no Musashi. His first portrayal of Ōishi Kuranosuke was in the 1996 Chūshingura. He took up the role again in 2004 for the NHK Saigo no Chūshingura and in 2007, in the New Year special Chūshingura Yōzei-in no Inbō. Other historical roles from the Sengoku period include Azai Nagamasa, Saitō Dōsan, and Yamamoto Kansuke. In addition to historical parts, he appeared in fictional series. His portrayal of Ogami Ittō in the Lone Wolf and Cub ( Kozure 2) Which was a series for Asahi TV in Japan is representative of these appearances. In 2008, Kitaōji revisited the role of Katsu Kaishū in the Taiga drama Atsuhime. He had portrayed Katsu in his 1956 debut. He won the award for best actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Fire Festival and Haru no kane. Kitaōji played one of the lead roles in Hideo Nakata's psychological thriller film The Incite Mill. In recent times, Kitaōji voices the Hokkaido-inu character of "Father" in SoftBank Mobile's White Family advertising campaign.
Filmography
170 credits
Shadow Over Fuji
Movie • 1957
Keepers of Order
Movie • 1962
Kingdom of Youth
Movie • 1958
Yamanaka Shikanoske
The Incite Mill
Movie • 2010
Yoshi Ando
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Movie • 1969
Soji Okita
Abandoned
Movie • 1981
Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
Movie • 1969
Takeo
The Peking Man
Movie • 1997
Kin'ya Kitaôji
がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～
Movie • 2018
西條征士郎(さいじょう せいしろう)
Spring Bell
Movie • 1985
Rokuheita Narumi
Fire Festival
Movie • 1985
Tatsuo
Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
Movie • 1995
Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Movie • 2009
Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
Movie • 1993
Mount Hakkoda
Movie • 1977
Captain Kanda
Asura
Movie • 2012
Monk
Sakura Housara
Movie • 2014
淋しい狩人
Movie • 2013
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
Movie • 1962
A Woman Called En
Movie • 1971
Rise, Fair Sun
Movie • 1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Movie • 1974
Tamotsu Matsumura
Dohten
Movie • 1991
THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
Movie • 2023
Saitō Dōsan
The Second Is a Christian
Movie • 1985
Eiji
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Movie • 1962
River of Forever
Movie • 1967
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Movie • 1992
Winter's Flower
Movie • 1978
Michio Sakata
Monument to Holy Service
Movie • 1978
Eternal First Love
Movie • 2010
Yuichi Makibara
Future War 198X
Movie • 1982
Wataru Mikumo (voice)
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Movie • 1958
さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル 塩屋岬いわき殺人事件
Movie • 2022
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
Movie • 2010
Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Movie • 2014
Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
Movie • 1975
Yumeji Takehisa
Will to Conquer
Movie • 1970
Sakurada Gate Incident
Movie • 2010
Shag
Movie • 1978
The Alaska Story
Movie • 1977
Frank Yasuda
Sushi King Goes to New York
Movie • 2008
Gengoro
Zero
Movie • 1984
Jiro Horikoshi
Glowing Autumn
Movie • 1978
Gambling Den Heist
Movie • 1975
Takeshi Kiyomoto
Wolves, Pigs & Men
Movie • 1964
Sabu, the third brother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Movie • 1974
The Day the Sun Rose
Movie • 1968
The Last Revenge
Movie • 2011
Tesshu Yamaoka
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Movie • 1965
松平三郎元信（後の徳川家康）
Legal High SP
Movie • 2013
Isao Teshigawara / 勅使河原勲
The Notorious Bored Samurai 2
Movie • 1988
Mondonosuke Saotome
The Notorious Bored Samurai
Movie • 1988
Mondosuke
The Notorious Bored Samurai 3
Movie • 1989
Sawatari Shusui
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
Movie • 1991
Sawatari Shusui
The Notorious Bored Samurai 7
Movie • 1992
Sawatari Shusui
The Notorious Bored Samurai 5
Movie • 1990
Sawatari Shusui
The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
Movie • 1994
Saotome Mondonosuke
The Notorious Bored Samurai 8
Movie • 1993
Sawatari Mondonosuke
The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
Movie • 1994
Kukai
Movie • 1984
Kukai
Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki
Movie • 1995
A Revengeful Raid
Movie • 1962
Dynamite Don-Don
Movie • 1978
Ginji Tachibana
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Movie • 1980
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Movie • 1973
Shunsuke Godai
Law in Ghost Island
Movie • 1961
Yusaku
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Movie • 1961
The Mansion of Intrigue
Movie • 1957
Kyoya Kirishima
One Piece Film: GOLD
Movie • 2016
Raise Max (voice)
Lake of Illusions
Movie • 1982
Nobunaga Oda
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Movie • 1973
Shoji Yamanaka
Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
Movie • 2016
香月玄太郎
Father of the Kamikaze
Movie • 1974
The Acrobats of Death
Movie • 1959
I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore
Movie • 2012
Hanazono Shugoro
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
Movie • 1993
Whistling Drifter
Movie • 1961
Tsukinowa Gentaro
Young Lord and Second Son
Movie • 1961
Fine Man
Movie • 1961
The Blossom and the Sword
Movie • 1973
Captain Sakagami
The Orphan Brother
Movie • 1961
Shimane Prison Riot
Movie • 1975
Yuji Kawamura
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
Movie • 1976
Whistleblower
Movie • 2019
Ikuo Yakuyama
The Story of a Man Among Men
Movie • 1984
Love on the Rainbow
Movie • 1965
Tatsuya Kitakami
Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Movie • 2004
Shohei Kazama
Case 17
Movie • 2016
Shuichi Itami
One Day at Summer's End
Movie • 1968
Shigeo Ugari
Castle of Sand
Movie • 2019
The Navy
Movie • 1963
Shinji
The Highest Honour
Movie • 1982
Major Tachibana
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Movie • 1960
Tokaido Fullhouse
Movie • 1963
Okeya-no-oni
The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
Movie • 2020
Raymond Fuu
Virtue in Spades
Movie • 1956
Knightly Advice
Movie • 1962
Sensei
Movie • 1989
Chairman of the town
Bloody Battle at Dawn
Movie • 1959
Avenging Father
Movie • 1956
Minamoto no Yoriie
Shadow Conspirator
Movie • 1982
The Corporation
Movie • 1976
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Movie • 1993
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Movie • 1993
53 Stages of Action
Movie • 1963
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Movie • 1975
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
Movie • 1959
Yume-Chiyo
Movie • 1985
Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings
Movie • 2016
Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)
Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken
Movie • 2024
Detective Heiji
Movie • 1990
Heiji Zenigata
Traveling of Two Young Men
Movie • 1961
Gentaro
Cry of the Mountain
Movie • 1968
Tsugaru zessho
Movie • 1969
遊の人‐天下の御意見番 大久保彦左衛門‐
Movie • 1991
Kenkaku Shōbai: Onikuma Izakaya
Movie • 2014
南十字星
Movie • 1982
The Beauty of the Sundial Mansion
Movie • 1988
三屋清左衛門残日録
Movie • 2016
Mitsuya Seizaemon
三屋清左衛門残日録 完結篇
Movie • 2017
Mitsuya Seizaemon
三屋清左衛門残日録 三十年ぶりの再会
Movie • 2018
三屋清左衛門残日録 新たなしあわせ
Movie • 2020
Warlord of the Underworld
Movie • 1998
Jirocho Shimizu
In His Chart
TV • 2021
Itagaki Genzo [Director]
Ryoma ga Yuku
TV • 1968
Sakamoto Ryoma
Mominoki wa Nokotta
TV • 1970
Sakai Tadakiyo
Seven Detectives
TV • 2015
Shuntaro Domoto
Hanzawa Naoki
TV • 2013
Ken Nakanowatari
生存 愛する娘のために
TV • 2002
Triangle
TV • 2009
Kuroki Shinzo
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
TV • 2023
I'm Home
TV • 2015
Yozo Ieji
Lone Wolf and Cub
TV • 2002
Ogami Ittô
Blackboard
TV • 2012
Akinori Shioda
Breathless Summer
TV • 2012
夏目周作
Fragile
TV • 2016
Kaoru Nakaguma
Princess Go
TV • 2011
The Family
TV • 2007
Daisuke Manpyo
Sanbiki no Ossan
TV • 2014
清田清一
刑事シュート しゅうと&ムコの事件日誌
TV • 2008
SMAP×SMAP
TV • 1996
Skit Guest
Miyamoto Musashi
TV • 1990
Miyamoto Musashi
The Story of Dominating Countries
TV • 2005
Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces
TV • 2007
Kuwayama Jubei
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
TV • 2012
Yoshito Tendo（天堂 義人）
Blackboard
TV • 2012
Shioda Akinori
The Diary of Chuji's Travels
TV • 1992
Chuji
Masamune Shogun
TV • 1987
伊達輝宗
さすらい署長 風間昭平
TV • 2003
忠臣蔵
TV • 2004
Absolute Zero
TV • 2010
Hideo Nagashima
Magistrate Ooka Echizen
TV • 2005
Alice in Wonderful Kitchen
TV • 2024
Gojo Michitaka
Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi
TV • 2017
Wataru Enoki
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
TV • 1987
Secret Magistrate Asahina
TV • 1998
Asahina Kawachinokami Masakiyo
Man of Destiny
TV • 2012
Keisaku Sahashi
Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
TV • 2020
Kyotaro Onda
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
TV • 2019
Phantom Assassin
TV • 2008
Koyama Genjuro
Atsuhime
TV • 2008
Believe: A Bridge to You
TV • 2024
Goro Bando
Sanada Yukimura
TV • 1989
事件 (テレビ朝日のテレビドラマ)
TV • 1993
白虎隊～敗れざる者たち
TV
Further Tales of Musashi
TV • 1996
Miyamoto Musashi
Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches
TV • 1986
Genroku Kano (Tokugawa Yoshimune)
Hojo Tokimune
TV • 2001
Sha Kokumei
三屋清左衛門残日録
TV • 2016