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Isao Kimura

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Senda, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, 1923-06-22

Died: 1981-07-04

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako		68
2	1949	Stray Dog	Yusa	75
3	1950	The Angry Street		65
4	1951	Beyond Love and Hate		0
5	1951	Elegy		0
6	1951	Weeping Doll	Nomine	0
7	1951	Still I Live On	Mizuno	57
8	1951	Dancing Girl	Nozu	63
9	1951	Sekidô matsuri		0
10	1952	The Yamabiko School		0
11	1952	Violence		0
12	1952	Ikiru	Intern	83
13	1952	Vacuum Zone	Kitani	70
14	1953	A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land		0
15	1953	Mr. Pu		65
16	1953	At the End of the Clouds		0
17	1954	The End of a Day		50
18	1954	Seven Samurai	Katsushiro Okamoto	85
19	1954	Cape Ashizuri		0
20	1954	Student Double Suicide		0
21	1954	The Valley Between Love and Death	Kanji Sakata	0
22	1954	A Billionaire	Koroku Tate	57
23	1955	The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes	Ensign Tamai	0
24	1955	Ofukuro		0
25	1955	Beautiful Days		67
26	1955	Yukiko		0
27	1955	Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree	Kashima	0
28	1956	I Saw the Killer	Takeo Fujisaki	0
29	1956	Avalanche		0
30	1956	Tengoku wa doko da		0
31	1957	Throne of Blood	Phantom samurai	79
32	1957	Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon		0
33	1957	Rice		64
34	1957	Price of Beauty	Kazuhiko Uematsu	0
35	1957	Showdown in Blood		0
36	1957	The Story of Pure Love	Segawa Hospital doctor	68
37	1958	Akutoku	Iwase Shichiro	0
38	1958	Little Peach	Ryokichi Urushiyama, the husband	58
39	1958	Beyond the Seasonal Wind		0
40	1958	Summer Clouds	Okawa	75
41	1959	The Woman and the Pirate	幸七	0
42	1959	Hahakogusa	Yoshihiko Takayama	0
43	1959	Police Precinct: Nothing Left At The Scene		0
44	1959	Tokyo Detective Girl		0
45	1960	White Cliffs		0
46	1960	Hero of the Red Light District		86
47	1960	The Stragglers		0
48	1961	拳銃野郎に御用心		0
49	1961	The Harbor Lights		50
50	1961	Miyamoto Musashi	Hon'iden Matahachi	73
51	1961	Young Lord Yakuza		83
52	1961	The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado		0
53	1961	City		0
54	1961	The Eighth Enemy	Kutsuda	0
55	1962	Hokkaido, My Love		0
56	1962	Nippon no obaachan		0
57	1962	The Temple of Wild Geese	Atsumichi Uda	63
58	1962	Knightly Advice		70
59	1962	Our Marriage	Yutaka Matsumoto	67
60	1962	The Thinking Leaf		0
61	1962	Four Sisters	Shoji Ohtsu	60
62	1962	Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights	Hon'iden Matahachi	74
63	1963	High and Low	Detective Arai	83
64	1963	Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai	Hirotaro Iguchi	70
65	1963	Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi		0
66	1963	Cases of Umon:Ａ Woman with An Umbrella	Tomokichi	0
67	1963	Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style	Hon'iden Matahachi	70
68	1963	Yakuza of Seki	Morisuke of Hakoda	85
69	1964	Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple	Hon'iden Matahachi	70
70	1964	Assassination	Tadasaburo Sasaki	71
71	1964	The Shape of Night	Saitô	66
72	1964	Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall		68
73	1965	Snow Country	Shimamura	40
74	1965	Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro	Hon'iden Matahachi	73
75	1965	Conquest	Inspector Enya	50
76	1966	Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn	Yagyu Genzaburo	66
77	1967	The Affair	Mitsuhuru	66
78	1967	Rusty Pendant		0
79	1967	Journey		0
80	1967	Impasse	Shingo, Ibuki	64
81	1968	Affair in the Snow	Kazuo Imai	70
82	1968	Secret Information	Goro Izawa	0
83	1968	Black Lizard	Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi	67
84	1968	Where did Sharaku go?		0
85	1969	Sky Scraper!		0
86	1969	Fill the Cup with Blood		0
87	1970	Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song		0
88	1971	Confessions Among Actresses	Director Nose	61
89	1974	Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell	Tsuchigumo Hyoei	71
90	1974	Pastoral: To Die in the Country	Film Critic	75
91	1976	My Brother	Father	0
92	1978	Invitation from the Beach	Toshihiko Kurahashi	0
93	2002	Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role
1	1978	Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
2	1979	Ayu no uta	木島先生
3	1980	Nukata no Ōkimi