Minoru Chiaki
Acting • Born 1917-04-28 – Died 1999-11-01
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.
Filmography
122 credits
The Hidden Fortress
Movie • 1958
Tahei
Rashomon
Movie • 1950
Priest
Godzilla Raids Again
Movie • 1955
Kôji Kobayashi
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 1
Movie • 1961
Oogonju
Movie • 1950
Eiji Yabuki
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Movie • 1961
20 Duels of Young Shingo: Conclusion
Movie • 1963
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Movie • 1969
Shimizu
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Noguchi
Bodyguard from Hell
Movie • 1955
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Jiro Nakajima
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Sasuke the boatman
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Movie • 1963
Kakurai Yosuke
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Young Lord Yakuza
Movie • 1961
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1957
Former Samurai
High and Low
Movie • 1963
First Reporter
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Movie • 1962
The Face of Another
Movie • 1966
Apartment Superintendent
Samurai Vagabonds
Movie • 1960
Sekidô matsuri
Movie • 1951
Today is Payday
Movie • 1952
General Manager of General Affairs Department
Riverside Fish Market Empire
Movie • 1952
Shinran
Movie • 1960
Eight Views of Samurai
Movie • 1958
Love Under the Crucifix
Movie • 1962
The Emperor's Hat
Movie • 1950
Vendetta of a Samurai
Movie • 1952
Innocent Sinner
Movie • 1970
Tokyo's Business District
Movie • 1962
If You're Man Enough
Movie • 1960
What Price Love?
Movie • 1960
Matashiro
The Story of Shunkin
Movie • 1954
Inu to Asachan
Movie • 1969
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
Movie • 1977
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Movie • 1959
Kobayashi (as Mindru Chiaki)
Shinran, Part II
Movie • 1960
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Movie • 1966
Kitao Momose
Gray Sunset
Movie • 1985
Fuyukichi Takano
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
Girlie Show director
Throne of Blood
Movie • 1957
Yoshiaki Miki
Hero of the Red Light District
Movie • 1960
Jôsuke
Yakuza of Ina
Movie • 1960
Kichitaro
A Wife's Heart
Movie • 1956
Zenichi
Little Peach
Movie • 1958
Saburo Yoshida
Don Matsugoro's Big Adventure
Movie • 1987
Amenomori Seikai
The Scroll’s Secret
Movie • 1958
The Inheritance
Movie • 1962
Junichi Fujii
A Carpenter and Children
Movie • 1962
Zero Fighter
Movie • 1966
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Movie • 1965
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Movie • 1959
Onodera Heichô
Run, Genta, Run!
Movie • 1961
The Vampire Moth
Movie • 1956
Sango Kawase
Mother's First Love
Movie • 1954
Beyond the Hills
Movie • 1950
The Paper Crane
Movie • 1962
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Movie • 1950
The Phantom Goblin
Movie • 1962
乾杯！女学生
Movie • 1954
Saga of the Vagabonds
Movie • 1959
Jibu
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Movie • 1959
The Ambitious Youth
Movie • 1962
Black Thief
Movie • 1964
Libido
Movie • 1967
The Bride In Uguisu Castle
Movie • 1958
Sasuke and His Comedians
Movie • 1963
Yukimura Sanada
A House in the Quarter
Movie • 1963
Jinzo Takesue
Young Lord and Second Son
Movie • 1961
Mole Alley
Movie • 1953
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Movie • 1962
Drunken Sword
Movie • 1962
Five Ronins
Movie • 1963
The Christian Revolt
Movie • 1962
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
Movie • 1963
Goblin in Stirrups
Movie • 1959
Wakôdo no uta
Movie • 1951
Hayashi
The Youth and His Amulet
Movie • 1961
Scarier than the Devil
Movie • 1960
A Bridge for Two Alone
Movie • 1958
Jirocho in Disgrace
Movie • 1954
Karafuto 1945 Summer
Movie • 1974
Beauty and the Thief
Movie • 1952
Takeichi no Takamaru
Taking the Castle
Movie • 1965
Street of Wandering Men
Movie • 1963
Mighty Shosuke
Movie • 1960
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Movie • 1962
Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Heihachi Hayashida
The Body
Movie • 1962
Scoundrel
Movie • 1956
Pilgrimage at Night
Movie • 1959
Sunflower Girl
Movie • 1953
Case of a Young Lord 8
Movie • 1960
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
Movie • 1961
The Scarlet Cherry Lord
Movie • 1958
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Movie • 1960
Scandal
Movie • 1950
Song of Love
Movie • 1967
The Ship-master
Official with a Tattoo
Movie • 1960
The Unleashed Lord
Movie • 1959
Lion Festival of Echigo
Movie • 1962
The Princess and the Bearded Lord
Movie • 1962
Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
Movie • 1980
Jolly Barbers
Movie • 1963
Ebina Ginpei
Yakuza Vassal
Movie • 1966
Won't Stand for Dying
Movie • 1960
Brother Ryota
Fearless Opposition
Movie • 1958
Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
Movie • 1954
Kono sora no aru kagiri
Movie • 1964
The Sharks
Movie • 1964
Uogashi no senpū musume
Movie • 1963
Tactics of Love
Movie • 1955
Futaridake no taiyō
Movie • 1961
Talkative Company President
Movie • 1957
Omaeda (President)
The Shadow Daughter
Movie • 1957
The Mandarin Room
Movie • 1956
Skin-Colored Moon
Movie • 1957
Umekichi ishikura
Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku
Movie • 1957
Flower's Yearning
Movie • 1958
Yanami Fukuzo
Mōjū Tsukai no Shōjo
Movie • 1952
A Strong Wind Blows
Movie • 1956
Zentarō (Takako’s brother)
Gendai no yokubô
Movie • 1956