Minoru Chiaki
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Hidden Fortress
as Tahei
1958
Rashomon
as Priest
1950
Godzilla Raids Again
as Kôji Kobayashi
1955
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 1
1961
Golden Beast
as Eiji Yabuki
1950
20 Duels of Young Shingo: Conclusion
1963
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
as Shimizu
1969
Ikiru
as Noguchi
1952
Bodyguard from Hell
1955
I Live in Fear
as Jiro Nakajima
1955
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Sasuke the boatman
1956
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
as Kakurai Yosuke
1963
The Idiot
as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
1951
Young Lord Yakuza
1961
The Lower Depths
as Former Samurai
1957
High and Low
as First Reporter
1963
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
The Face of Another
as Apartment Superintendent
1966
Samurai Vagabonds
1960