Birthday
1923/06/22
Day of death
1981/07/04 (58 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Senda, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Also know as
Kō Kimura, Исао Кимура
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...Read more
(1952) Ikiru
as Intern
(1963) Cases of Umon:A Woman with An Umbrella
as Tomokichi
(1961) Young Lord Yakuza
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(1963) High and Low
as Detective Arai
(1960) The Stragglers
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(1968) Black Lizard
as Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi
(1951) Sekidô matsuri
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(1955) Yukiko
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(1970) Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
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(1966) Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
as Yagyu Genzaburo
(1964) Assassination
as Tadasaburo Sasaki
(1974) Pastoral: To Die in the Country
as Film Critic
(1968) Affair in the Snow
as Kazuo Imai
(1962) Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Hon'iden Matahachi
(1963) Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
as Hon'iden Matahachi
(1964) Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Hon'iden Matahachi
(1965) Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as Hon'iden Matahachi
(1961) Miyamoto Musashi
as Hon'iden Matahachi
(1958) Summer Clouds
as Okawa
(1955) Beautiful Days
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(1964) Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
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(1954) A Billionaire
as Koroku Tate
(1959) Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
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(1965) Conquest
as Inspector Enya
(1957) Showdown in Blood
as ---
(1962) Our Marriage
as Yutaka Matsumoto
(1955) Ofukuro
as ---
(1958) Little Peach
as Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband
(1952) Vacuum Zone
as Kitani
(1967) Impasse
as Shingo, Ibuki
(1959) 女と海賊
as 幸七
(1968) Where did Sharaku go?
as ---
(1955) Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Kashima
(1953) A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as ---
(1969) Sky Scraper!
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(1956) Avalanche
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(1959) Hahakogusa
as Yoshihiko Takayama
(1962) Hokkaido, My Love
as ---
(1949) Stray Dog
as Yusa
(1957) Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
(1971) Confessions Among Actresses
as Director Nose
(1960) Hero of the Red Light District
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(1967) The Affair
as Mitsuhuru
(1951) Still I Live On
as Mizuno
(1954) Cape Ashizuri
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(1950) The Angry Street
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(1964) The Shape of Night
as Saitô
(1955) The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
as Ensign Tamai
(1953) Mr. Pu
as ---
(1951) Beyond Love and Hate
as ---
(1965) Snow Country
as Shimamura
(1951) Dancing Girl
as Nozu
(1957) Rice
as ---
(1974) Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
as Tsuchigumo Hyoei
(1963) Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as Hirotaro Iguchi
(1962) Four Sisters
as Shoji Ohtsu
(1968) Secret Information
as Goro Izawa
(1958) Beyond the Seasonal Wind
as ---
(1954) The End of a Day
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(1959) Tokyo Detective Girl
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
as Self
(1956) Tengoku wa doko da
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(1962) The Temple of Wild Geese
as Atsumichi Uda
(1962) The Thinking Leaf
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(1961) The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
as ---
(1967) Journey
as ---
(1957) Price of Beauty
as Kazuhiko Uematsu
(1958) Akutoku
as Iwase Shichiro
(1976) My Brother
as Father
(1957) The Story of Pure Love
as Segawa Hospital doctor
(1951) Weeping Doll
as Nomine
(1956) I Saw the Killer
as Takeo Fujisaki
(1962) Nippon no obaachan
as ---
(1962) Knightly Advice
as ---
(1978) Invitation from the Beach
as Toshihiko Kurahashi
(1952) The Yamabiko School
as ---
(1947) The Love of the Actress Sumako
as ---
(1954) Seven Samurai
as Katsushiro Okamoto
(1963) Yakuza of Seki
as Morisuke of Hakoda
(1969) Fill the Cup with Blood
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(1963) Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
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(1951) Elegy
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(1953) At the End of the Clouds
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(1961) The Eighth Enemy
as Kutsuda
(1961) City
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(1952) Violence
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(1954) Student Double Suicide
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(1954) The Valley Between Love and Death
as Kanji Sakata
(1960) White Cliffs
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(1978) Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
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(1979) Ayu no uta
as 木島先生
(1980) Nukata no Ōkimi
as ---