Bokuzen Hidari
Acting • Born 1894-02-20 – Died 1971-05-26
Biography
Bokuzen Hidari (左 卜全 Hidari Bokuzen, 20 February 1894 - 26 May 1971) was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Lower Depths and Ikiru. Hidari was famous among Japanese audiences for his portrayals of meek, downtrodden men, and although a teetotaller, was renowned for his convincing drunk scenes (see esp. "Ikiru").
Filmography
201 credits
An Urban Affair
Movie • 1961
Kinnosuke Togura
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Movie • 1961
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Ohara
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Karube
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1957
Kahei the Pilgrim
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Movie • 1962
Red Bud and White Flower
Movie • 1962
A Fishmonger's Tour
Movie • 1963
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Movie • 1962
Otoko no Uta
Movie • 1962
The Invisible Wall
Movie • 1958
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Movie • 1952
Genji
Today is Payday
Movie • 1952
Section chief
Beauty and the Thief
Movie • 1952
恐妻時代
Movie • 1952
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Movie • 1950
Peasant
Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
Movie • 1962
Hail the 3 Gents
Movie • 1964
Kuroda (President of Taisho Paper)
Black Tight Killers
Movie • 1966
Momochi
Outlaw island
Movie • 1956
Secret Club 000
Movie • 1965
Woman
Movie • 1969
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Movie • 1964
Kyubei
Rebel Against Glory
Movie • 1970
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
Movie • 1969
Jinbei
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Movie • 1958
Vendetta of a Samurai
Movie • 1952
Red Lion
Movie • 1969
Gohei
My Hobo
Movie • 1962
Souls in the Moonlight III
Movie • 1959
Doan
Sex and Life
Movie • 1969
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
Movie • 1961
The Sun's Burial
Movie • 1960
Chihō kisha
Movie • 1962
Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Movie • 1962
Forever a Woman
Movie • 1955
Hide's Husband
Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
Movie • 1955
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Movie • 1962
The Human Vapor
Movie • 1960
Jiya
Oh, My Comrade!
Movie • 1970
Shi no machi wo nogarete
Movie • 1952
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2
Movie • 1969
Yukiko
Movie • 1955
Gamblers' Luck
Movie • 1966
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
Movie • 1968
All is Well
Movie • 1955
Hikoichi Okubo
Young Guy in the South Pacific
Movie • 1967
Arita Hidezo
The Blue Pearl
Movie • 1951
Riu's father
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Movie • 1962
The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice
Movie • 1965
Takichi
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Movie • 1954
Street of Wandering Men
Movie • 1963
Ponkotsu oyaji
Movie • 1962
Our Wasteland
Movie • 1969
Hadaka no Machi
Movie • 1957
Curry Rice
Movie • 1962
House of Many Pleasures
Movie • 1955
Florist
3 Gents in the Snow Country
Movie • 1964
Red Beard
Movie • 1965
Patient A
Scandal
Movie • 1950
Drunk
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Landowner
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Movie • 1960
Foghorn
Movie • 1952
Hana no yukyo-den
Movie • 1958
Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
Movie • 1960
Red Diamond
Movie • 1964
Botchan
Movie • 1958
Janitor
Invitation to the Enchanted Town
Movie • 1961
The Fencing Collegian
Movie • 1956
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Movie • 1952
Shiro's grandpa
The Little Hero
Movie • 1970
Four Hours of Terror
Movie • 1959
Old man
Island of Fury
Movie • 1958
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Movie • 1960
The Legend of the White Serpent
Movie • 1956
Boss Takes to the Road
Movie • 1961
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Movie • 1956
Danger Pays
Movie • 1962
Sakamoto, the Expert
Siege of Fort Bismarck
Movie • 1963
The Life of a Horse Trader
Movie • 1951
Gosaku
A Whistle in My Heart
Movie • 1959
Song of Love
Movie • 1967
Beyond the Green Hills
Movie • 1963
Ditch
Movie • 1954
The Wolves
Movie • 1955
Kirai Kirai Kirai
Movie • 1960
Two in the Shadow
Movie • 1967
Young Swordsman
Movie • 1963
Otsuka Kihei
A Hole of My Own Making
Movie • 1955
New Shameless School
Movie • 1971
Alfata Jinbei
Age of Nudity
Movie • 1959
Gen-ji
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
Movie • 1966
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Movie • 1957
Secret of The Golden Spell
Movie • 1958
Tamaru Mondonosho
The Sunshine Girl
Movie • 1963
Love Fantasia
Movie • 1970
Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
Movie • 1959
Prison Boss
Movie • 1968
Three Outlaw Samurai
Movie • 1964
Sakusan
Sir Galahad in Campus
Movie • 1961
Prof. Ishiwaki
Pride of the Campus
Movie • 1962
Prof. Ishiwaki
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Movie • 1958
Brothers of Capones
Movie • 1970
Live and Learn
Movie • 1971
Janitor
Souls in the Moonlight
Movie • 1957
Doctor Doan
Follow the Girls
Movie • 1971
Shima-san
Souls in the Moonlight II
Movie • 1958
Doan
Three Pretty Devils
Movie • 1970
Old man
Volunteering for Villainy
Movie • 1960
Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure
Movie • 1969
The Three Treasures
Movie • 1959
God Amenominaka
The Princess of Badger Palace
Movie • 1958
Awa-no-Kami
Miki, the Swordman
Movie • 1951
Traveling in Party
Movie • 1967
New Year Trip
Movie • 1968
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Movie • 1963
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Movie • 1969
The Abalone Gals
Movie • 1965
Samurai from Nowhere
Movie • 1964
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Movie • 1970
Toku
Girls Born in August
Movie • 1963
The Youth and His Amulet
Movie • 1961
The Hotelman's Holiday
Movie • 1958
Teacher
Tange Sazen and the Princess
Movie • 1961
Madcap Mixup
Movie • 1969
Police chief
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Movie • 1970
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Movie • 1970
Jinbei
Shameless School
Movie • 1970
Jinbei
A Bridge for Two Alone
Movie • 1958
The Man Who Came to Port
Movie • 1952
Kan-jii
Lovetide
Movie • 1955
Factory owner (uncredited)
Echo Mountain
Movie • 1959
Nippon no obaachan
Movie • 1962
Untamed Woman
Movie • 1957
Old man
The Rickshaw Man
Movie • 1958
Travel Romances
Movie • 1957
Mighty Shosuke
Movie • 1960
Red Pants
Movie • 1959
The Angry Sea
Movie • 1960
Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Yohei
This Madding Crowd
Movie • 1962
On Wings of Love
Movie • 1957
Heikichi Kobayashi
The White Orchid
Movie • 1951
Life is a Battle
Movie • 1970
Love Never Fails
Movie • 1955
Gamera, the Giant Monster
Movie • 1965
Old Farmer
Rainbow Over Paris
Movie • 1970
Koji Minagawa
The Walking Major
Movie • 1970
Boilerman
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Movie • 1963
Sanshiro Sugata
Movie • 1965
Priest
Jolly Barbers
Movie • 1963
Elegy
Movie • 1951
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie • 1955
Young Guy in Hawaii
Movie • 1963
古屋老人
The Child Writers
Movie • 1958
Nakahara
Typhoon
Movie • 1956
The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream
Movie • 1961
Ripe and Marriageable
Movie • 1959
Salesman
The White Road Across the River
Movie • 1959
The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie • 1954
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Movie • 1955
Meteor Karate Strike
Movie • 1956
The Rabble
Movie • 1964
Botchan yarō seizoroi
Movie • 1961
A Devil of a Gentleman
Movie • 1963
Zoku izuko e
Movie • 1967
Shōnen shikeishū
Movie • 1955
Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
Movie • 1961
Subarashiki shōtai
Movie • 1955
痛快太郎
Movie • 1961
A Lawless Outpost
Movie • 1963
Kaiun ryokō
Movie • 1971
Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
Movie • 1951
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
Movie • 1969
お嬢さん三度笠
Movie • 1960
Wakai yatsura no kaidan
Movie • 1961
喜劇 各駅停車
Movie • 1965
Hijō no otoko
Movie • 1961
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Movie • 1963
Ohana han
Movie • 1966
Gosuke
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Movie • 1966
Gosuke
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Movie • 1960
Clerk at Haruyoshi Inn
Playboy President
Movie • 1961
Chairman Yokoyama
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Movie • 1958
Village Head Akamatsu
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
Movie • 1966
Clerk at "Iyami-yu"
関八州勢揃い
Movie • 1954
Five Gents and a Kuniang
Movie • 1970
Aso Chairman
The Young Boss is Third Generation
Movie • 1958
Kōbei, Yukichi’s Grandfather
A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
Movie • 1959
Kōbei
Fox and Raccoon
Movie • 1959
Hidematsu Yasufuku
恋と出世に強くなれ！
Movie • 1963
杉本
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
Movie • 1960
University Staff
College Champ
Movie • 1962
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
Movie • 1970
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
Movie • 1970
3 Dolls in College
Movie • 1959
Season of Tears
Movie • 1969
Big Wind from Tokyo
Movie • 1966
Obata Seiichi
Fear of Sex
Movie • 1970
Gendai no yokubô
Movie • 1956
Young Guy in Rio
Movie • 1968