Isao Kimura
Acting • Born 1923-06-22 – Died 1981-07-04
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.
Filmography
100 credits
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Intern
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Movie • 1963
Tomokichi
Young Lord Yakuza
Movie • 1961
High and Low
Movie • 1963
Detective Arai
The Stragglers
Movie • 1960
Black Lizard
Movie • 1968
Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi
Sekidô matsuri
Movie • 1951
Yukiko
Movie • 1955
Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
Movie • 1970
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Movie • 1966
Yagyu Genzaburo
Assassination
Movie • 1964
Tadasaburo Sasaki
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Movie • 1974
Film Critic
Affair in the Snow
Movie • 1968
Kazuo Imai
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Movie • 1962
Hon'iden Matahachi
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Movie • 1963
Hon'iden Matahachi
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Hon'iden Matahachi
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Movie • 1965
Hon'iden Matahachi
Miyamoto Musashi
Movie • 1961
Hon'iden Matahachi
Summer Clouds
Movie • 1958
Okawa
Beautiful Days
Movie • 1955
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
Movie • 1964
A Billionaire
Movie • 1954
Koroku Tate
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
Movie • 1959
Conquest
Movie • 1965
Inspector Enya
Showdown in Blood
Movie • 1957
Our Marriage
Movie • 1962
Yutaka Matsumoto
Ofukuro
Movie • 1955
Little Peach
Movie • 1958
Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband
Vacuum Zone
Movie • 1952
Kitani
Impasse
Movie • 1967
Shingo, Ibuki
The Woman and the Pirate
Movie • 1959
幸七
Where did Sharaku go?
Movie • 1968
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie • 1955
Kashima
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Movie • 1953
Sky Scraper!
Movie • 1969
Avalanche
Movie • 1956
Hahakogusa
Movie • 1959
Yoshihiko Takayama
Hokkaido, My Love
Movie • 1962
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
Yusa
Throne of Blood
Movie • 1957
Phantom samurai
Confessions Among Actresses
Movie • 1971
Director Nose
Hero of the Red Light District
Movie • 1960
The Affair
Movie • 1967
Mitsuhuru
Still I Live On
Movie • 1951
Mizuno
Cape Ashizuri
Movie • 1954
The Angry Street
Movie • 1950
The Shape of Night
Movie • 1964
Saitô
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Movie • 1955
Ensign Tamai
Mr. Pu
Movie • 1953
Beyond Love and Hate
Movie • 1951
Snow Country
Movie • 1965
Shimamura
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1951
Nozu
Rice
Movie • 1957
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Movie • 1974
Tsuchigumo Hyoei
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Movie • 1963
Hirotaro Iguchi
Four Sisters
Movie • 1962
Shoji Ohtsu
Secret Information
Movie • 1968
Goro Izawa
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Movie • 1958
The End of a Day
Movie • 1954
Tokyo Detective Girl
Movie • 1959
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
Movie • 2002
Self
Tengoku wa doko da
Movie • 1956
The Temple of Wild Geese
Movie • 1962
Atsumichi Uda
The Thinking Leaf
Movie • 1962
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
Movie • 1961
Journey
Movie • 1967
Price of Beauty
Movie • 1957
Kazuhiko Uematsu
Akutoku
Movie • 1958
Iwase Shichiro
My Brother
Movie • 1976
Father
The Story of Pure Love
Movie • 1957
Segawa Hospital doctor
Weeping Doll
Movie • 1951
Nomine
I Saw the Killer
Movie • 1956
Takeo Fujisaki
Nippon no obaachan
Movie • 1962
Knightly Advice
Movie • 1962
Invitation from the Beach
Movie • 1978
Toshihiko Kurahashi
The Yamabiko School
Movie • 1952
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Movie • 1947
Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Katsushiro Okamoto
Yakuza of Seki
Movie • 1963
Morisuke of Hakoda
Fill the Cup with Blood
Movie • 1969
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
Movie • 1963
Elegy
Movie • 1951
At the End of the Clouds
Movie • 1953
The Eighth Enemy
Movie • 1961
Kutsuda
City
Movie • 1961
Violence
Movie • 1952
Student Double Suicide
Movie • 1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie • 1954
Kanji Sakata
White Cliffs
Movie • 1960
Rusty Pendant
Movie • 1967
拳銃野郎に御用心
Movie • 1961
The Harbor Lights
Movie • 1961
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
Movie • 1957
Daigaku buyū-den
Movie • 1961
The Brass General
Movie • 1960
The Wife is a University Student
Movie • 1956
Noboru Hiyoshi (Keiko’s Husband)
Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
TV • 1978
Ayu no uta
TV • 1979
木島先生
Nukata no Ōkimi
TV • 1980
Fuyu no Undokai
TV • 1977