Isao Kimura
Known for: Acting
Born: June 22, 1923
Died: July 4, 1981
Place of birth: Senda, Hiroshima, Japan
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.
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Filmography
105 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
2002
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Nukata no Ōkimi
1980
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Ayu no uta
1979
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Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
1978
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Invitation from the Beach
1978
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Fuyu no Undokai
1977
NR
My Brother
1976
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遺書 白い少女
1976
7.5
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974
7.1
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974
6.0
Confessions Among Actresses
1971
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Will to Conquer
1970
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Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
1970
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Fill the Cup with Blood
1969
7.0
Sky Scraper!
1969
8.0
Where did Sharaku go?
1968
6.9
Black Lizard
1968
9.0
Secret Information
1968
6.9
Affair in the Snow
1968
6.4
Impasse
1967
7.0
The Journey
1967
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Rusty Pendant
1967
6.6
The Affair
1967
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Look Up, Noble One
1966
6.7
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966
6.0
Conquest
1965
7.3
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965
6.7
Snow Country
1965
6.8
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1964
6.8
The Shape of Night
1964
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Camellia Gate
1964
8.0
Could I But Live
1964
7.1
Assassination
1964
7.0
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
8.5
Yakuza of Seki
1963
7.0
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963
10.0
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1963
10.0
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
6.7
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
8.4
High and Low
1963
7.5
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962
6.0
Four Sisters
1962
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The Thinking Leaf
1962
7.1
Our Marriage
1962
7.0
Knightly Advice
1962
6.5
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
7.0
Nippon no obaachan
196210.0
Hokkaido, My Love
1962
10.0
The Eighth Enemy
1961
7.0
City
1961
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1961
8.0
Young Lord Yakuza
1961
7.3
Miyamoto Musashi
1961
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Daigaku buyū-den
1961
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Beware of The Gunman
1961
6.3
The Harbor Lights
1961
8.0
The Stragglers
1960
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The Brass General
1960
8.7
Hero of the Red Light District
1960
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White Cliffs
1960
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Tokyo Detective Girl
1959
7.0
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
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Hahakogusa
1959
9.0
The Woman and the Pirate
1959
7.7
Summer Clouds
1958
9.0
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
6.1
Little Peach
1958
NR
Vice
1958
6.8
The Story of Pure Love
1957
NR
Showdown in Blood
1957
10.0
Price of Beauty
1957
6.8
Rice
1957
NR
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1957
7.9
Throne of Blood
1957NR
Symphony for Worn-Out Shoes
1956
8.0
Where's Paradise?
1956
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Avalanche
1956
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The Wife is a University Student
1956
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I Saw the Killer
1956
8.0
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
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Yukiko
1955
6.9
Beautiful Days
1955
7.0
Ofukuro
1955
9.0
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
6.8
A Billionaire
1954
8.0
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
NR
Student Double Suicide
1954
9.0
Cape Ashizuri
1954
8.5
Seven Samurai
1954
7.5
The End of a Day
1954
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At the End of the Clouds
1953
6.5
Mr. Pu
1953
7.0
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
8.5
Vacuum Zone
1952
8.3
Ikiru
1952
8.0
Violence
1952
NR
The Yamabiko School
1952
NR
Sekidô matsuri
1951
NR
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
1951
6.4
Dancing Girl
1951
6.0
Still I Live On
1951
NR
The Love Letter Trial
1951
NR
Weeping Doll
1951
9.0
Elegy
1951
7.0
Beyond Love and Hate
1951
6.7
The Angry Street
1950
7.6
Stray Dog
1949
7.0
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
7.0
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942