Minoru Chiaki

Acting · Born 1917-04-28 in Hokkaido, Japan

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

• The Hidden Fortress as Tahei
• Rashomon as Priest
• Godzilla Raids Again as Kôji Kobayashi
• Ikiru as Noguchi
• I Live in Fear as Jiro Nakajima
• Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Sasuke the boatman
• The Idiot as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
• Young Lord Yakuza
• The Lower Depths as Former Samurai
• High and Low as First Reporter