Denjirō Ōkōchi
Acting • Born 1898-02-05 – Died 1962-07-19
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Denjirō Ōkōchi (5 February 1898 – 18 July 1962) was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in jidaigeki directed by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Daisuke Itō, Sadao Yamanaka, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hiroshi Inagaki and Masahiro Makino. His real name was Masuo Ōbe. Training in Shinkokugeki under Shōjirō Sawada, Ōkōchi entered Nikkatsu in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara films playing characters such as Chūji Kunisada and Sazen Tange. At his peak, he was one of the top jidaigeki stars alongside Tsumasaburō Bandō and Chiezō Kataoka. During World War II, he also appeared in a number of war films. His house and garden in Arashiyama, Kyoto, called Ōkōchi Sansō, are still preserved and open to the public. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denjirō Ōkōchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
152 credits
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 1
Movie • 1961
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Movie • 1961
Bangaku no issho
Movie • 1933
Bangaku Ajikawa
Young Lord Yakuza
Movie • 1961
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
Movie • 1941
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
Movie • 1941
Shadow Over Fuji
Movie • 1957
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Movie • 1949
Saheiji
Sanshiro Sugata
Movie • 1943
Shogoro Yano
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Movie • 1952
Benkei
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
Movie • 1927
Kita
No Regrets for Our Youth
Movie • 1946
Professor Yagihara
Forty-Eight Man
Movie • 1952
Oishi
The Devil of Edo
Movie • 1947
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
Movie • 1945
Shogoro Yano
Shinran
Movie • 1960
Red peonies on the skin
Movie • 1957
Kuro-uma no danshichi
Movie • 1948
Judge of the Ashuras
Movie • 1951
A Man from Akagi
Movie • 1950
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Movie • 1959
Satsuma Courier Part 2: The Passionate Sword
Movie • 1933
Blood’s Up in Takadanobaba
Movie • 1928
Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-nihen
Movie • 1928
A Chivalrous Spirit
Movie • 1958
Hiratemiki
Movie • 1928
Mito Kômon: Rai Kunitsugu no maki
Movie • 1934
Mitsukuni Mito/Jinzaemon Tachibana
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Movie • 1957
Lord Yagyu
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Movie • 1939
Sazen Tange
Mito Kōmon
Movie • 1926
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Movie • 1958
Lord Yagyu
Jirokichi the Rat
Movie • 1931
Jirokichi
Mito Komon - The Secret Letter
Movie • 1935
Mito Komon - The Bloody Swords
Movie • 1935
Shimizu Jirocho
Movie • 1938
Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi
Movie • 1928
Kita
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Movie • 1949
Saheita Sugimoto aka Shôsuke Ohara
晴姿稚児の剣法
Movie • 1956
愚安和尚
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
Movie • 1955
柴凌海
The Revenge Champion
Movie • 1931
Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Movie • 1951
Castle of Flames
Movie • 1960
Izayoi kaidō
Movie • 1951
Enoken's Surprising Life
Movie • 1938
Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen
Movie • 1933
Tange Sazen
Sonno Joi
Movie • 1927
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Movie • 1949
The Abandoned Swords
Movie • 1958
Shinran, Part II
Movie • 1960
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Movie • 1960
Ninja Arts of Jiraiya
Movie • 1955
Suronin Chuya
Movie • 1930
Marubashi Chūya
Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
Movie • 1956
Ghost Ship Part 1
Movie • 1957
Jubei
Zuku ôoka seidan mazo kaiketsu-hen
Movie • 1931
Yakuza of Ina
Movie • 1960
Boss Tora
Ghost Ship Part 2
Movie • 1957
Jubei
Secret of The Golden Spell
Movie • 1958
Gamo Taiken
The Scarlet Cherry Lord
Movie • 1958
Geki Kitazaki
The Scroll’s Secret
Movie • 1958
Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode
Movie • 1927
Chuji Kunisada
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Movie • 1935
Sazen Tange
Teru hi kumoru hi dainihen Part 01
Movie • 1954
白頭巾現わる
Movie • 1949
The Eagle of the Pacific
Movie • 1953
Grand Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Battle Troop
Movie • 1944
The Snake Princess
Movie • 1940
Uehara Ittosai Nobushige
Kenkyō edo-murasaki
Movie • 1954
Nangoku taiheiki
Movie • 1937
Shimazu Nariakira / Masumitsu Kyunosuke
A Martial Crowd
Movie • 1958
Ishimatsu: the One-Eyed Avenger
Movie • 1960
Nonki saiban
Movie • 1955
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Movie • 1945
Hozoin Kakuzenbo
Story of a Beloved Wife
Movie • 1951
Torawakamaru, the Koga Ninja
Movie • 1957
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Lord Mito
Movie • 1957
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Takuma nyudo
I Saw a Phantom Fish
Movie • 1950
Lord for a Night
Movie • 1946
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Movie • 1936
Ryunosuke Tsukue
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
Movie • 1944
The Cruel Sea
Movie • 1944
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Movie • 1942
Satake
Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One
Movie • 1930
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: The Journey
Movie • 1933
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: Edo Reel
Movie • 1933
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: Edo Reel Part 2
Movie • 1933
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Movie • 1941
Shingen Takeda
Falcon Magistrate
Movie • 1957
Girl with the Fire Banner
Movie • 1958
The Purple Hood
Movie • 1958
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Movie • 1960
Tange Sazen and the Princess
Movie • 1961
Gamo Taiken
The Ako Retainers
Movie • 1961
Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
Movie • 1959
The Giant
Movie • 1938
The Dawn of Freedom
Movie • 1944
Captain Hayami
Souls in the Moonlight
Movie • 1957
Toranosuke Shimada
Blooded Spear
Movie • 1959
Lord Mito Komon: World commotion
Movie • 1960
Mito Komon
The Envoy
Movie • 1958
Great Bodhisattva Pass
Movie • 1935
A Young Rabble 2
Movie • 1959
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
Movie • 1954
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Movie • 1961
An Unforgettable Grudge
Movie • 1926
Kazuma Iki
The Red Shadow
Movie • 1961
Munenori Yagyû
A Young Rabble
Movie • 1959
Bride of Peacock Castle
Movie • 1959
Hawk of the North
Movie • 1959
Kansuke
Road of Chivalry
Movie • 1960
Travel Romances
Movie • 1957
Ship of Outlaws
Movie • 1950
Kunisada Chūji
Movie • 1935
Kutsukake Tokijiro
Movie • 1929
Tokijirō Kutsukake
Little Tengu
Movie • 1961
Chuji's Travel Diary: Koshu Swordfighting
Movie • 1927
Chuji Kunisada
The Lost Public Funds
Movie • 1958
Jinba Yajuro
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1956
Gensai Mamiya
The Pirates
Movie • 1960
Tsuboya Dokyu
Samurai Vagabonds
Movie • 1960
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie • 1960
Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men
Movie • 1959
Bloody Battle at Dawn
Movie • 1959
A Spectacular Showdown
Movie • 1959
The Unleashed Lord
Movie • 1959
Lord of Red Banner
Movie • 1960
Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass
Movie • 1955
Revenge at Jorurizaka 2: Bloody Battle at Dawn
Movie • 1955
Shinpan Ôoka seidan; Daisanpen: Kaikatsuhen
Movie • 1928
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Movie • 1952
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Movie • 1940
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Zoku Mito Kōmon
Movie • 1928
Zenigata Heiji Case Files: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
Movie • 1956
Invitation to Happiness
Movie • 1947
Kuriyama Daizen
Movie • 1936
Kuriyama Daizen
Happily Tied to the Road
Movie • 1959
Kinpira
The Swordsman In The Golden Valley
Movie • 1960
Chuji's Travel Diary: Story of Bloody Shinshu
Movie • 1927
Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
Movie • 1934
Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-ippen
Movie • 1928
Fighting Birds
Movie • 1956
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
Movie • 1959
Zoku Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
すっ飛び駕
Movie • 1952
三万両五十三次
Movie • 1952
上州鴉
Movie • 1951
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
関八州勢揃い
Movie • 1954
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Movie • 1959
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Movie • 1958
Fujisancho
Movie • 1948