Bokuzen Hidari
Known for: Acting
Born: February 20, 1894
Died: May 26, 1971
Place of birth: Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan
Bokuzen Hidari (左 卜全 Hidari Bokuzen, 20 February 1894 - 26 May 1971) was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Lower Depths and Ikiru. Hidari was famous among Japanese audiences for his portrayals of meek, downtrodden men, and although a teetotaller, was renowned for his convincing drunk scenes (see esp. "Ikiru").
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Filmography
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8.0
Follow the Girls
1971
NR
Kaiun ryokō
1971
8.0
Live and Learn
1971
9.0
New Shameless School
1971
NR
Life is a Battle
1970
9.0
The Little Hero
1970
10.0
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
8.0
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
1970
7.0
Fear of Sex
1970
6.0
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
1970
8.0
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1970
NR
Love Fantasia
1970
6.3
Three Pretty Devils
1970
6.0
The Walking Major
1970
5.8
Brothers of Capones
1970
NR
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970
5.0
Shameless School
1970
NR
Rebel Against Glory
1970
NR
Rainbow Over Paris
1970
9.0
Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970
7.4
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970
8.0
Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure
1969
NR
Shinjuku Plaza
1969
NR
Woman
1969
6.5
Red Lion
1969
NR
Monstrous! Who Am I?!
1969
NR
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2
1969
7.0
Madcap Mixup
1969
10.0
Our Wasteland
1969
8.0
Season of Tears
1969
6.4
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
1969
7.7
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1969
7.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Pier
1969
10.0
Sex and Life
1969NR
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
1968
6.0
Young Guy in Rio
1968
7.7
Prison Boss
1968
7.0
New Year Trip
1968
7.8
Two in the Shadow
1967
6.0
Traveling in Party
1967
7.0
Young Guy in the South Pacific
1967
6.5
Song of Love
1967
NR
Zoku izuko e
1967
NR
Last Days of the Tokugawa Regime: Tenamonya Confusion
1967
7.0
Big Wind from Tokyo
1966
NR
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1966
NR
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966
NR
Ohana han
1966
8.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
1966
7.2
Gamblers' Luck
1966
6.9
Black Tight Killers
1966
NR
Hi No Taiko
1966
NR
Secret Club 000
1965
5.9
Gamera, the Giant Monster
1965
NR
The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice
1965
NR
Retirement of a Train Engineer
1965
NR
The Abalone Gals
1965
7.1
Sanshiro Sugata
1965
8.2
Red Beard
1965
NR
Hospital in Front of the Train Station
1965
NR
Heavenly Gods in Front of the train Station
1964
7.0
Red Diamond
1964
10.0
The Rabble
1964
6.9
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
1964
7.5
Three Outlaw Samurai
1964
10.0
3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964
7.2
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
8.0
Hail the 3 Gents
1964
NR
Jolly Barbers
1963
NR
A Lawless Outpost
1963
5.7
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963
NR
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
1963
6.7
Young Swordsman
1963
6.5
Young Guy in Hawaii
1963
7.0
Siege of Fort Bismarck
1963
5.7
The Sunshine Girl
1963
NR
A Devil of a Gentleman
1963
7.0
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
1963
NR
Girls Born in August
1963
8.0
Street of Wandering Men
1963
NR
恋と出世に強くなれ！
1963
NR
Onsen Geisha
1963
10.0
A Fishmonger's Tour
1963
7.0
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
NR
Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
1962
7.0
Danger Pays
19629.0
My Hobo
1962
9.0
Curry Rice
1962
NR
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
NR
Ponkotsu oyaji
1962
10.0
Local Reporter
1962
7.0
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962
10.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
1962
7.5
College Champ
1962
7.0
This Madding Crowd
1962
7.0
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
NR
Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
1962
NR
Otoko no Uta
1962
8.3
Pride of the Campus
1962
NR
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
1962
7.0
Nippon no obaachan
1962
NR
Wakai yatsura no kaidan
1961
9.0
Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
1961
NR
Boss Takes to the Road
1961
9.0
The Youth and His Amulet
1961
NR
The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream
1961
7.0
An Urban Affair
1961
NR
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
7.0
Sir Galahad in Campus
1961
NR
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
1961
NR
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
1961
5.8
Tange Sazen and the Princess
1961
10.0
Playboy President
1961
NR
Hijō no otoko
1961
8.0
Invitation to the Enchanted Town
1961
NR
痛快太郎
1961
NR
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961
7.1
The Human Vapor
1960
7.0
The Angry Sea
1960
NR
Mighty Shosuke
1960NR
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
1960
NR
Volunteering for Villainy
1960
6.4
The Sun's Burial
1960
8.3
Lord Mito: All Star Version
1960
NR
My Friend Death
1960
NR
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1960
NR
I Will Never Forget
1960
NR
お嬢さん三度笠
1960
NR
Kirai Kirai Kirai
1960
NR
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
1960
8.0
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
5.5
The Three Treasures
1959
6.3
Four Hours of Terror
1959
10.0
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
7.3
Age of Nudity
1959
NR
The White Road Across the River
1959
NR
Red Pants
1959
NR
The Bell of Love
1959
6.6
Souls in the Moonlight III
1959
9.0
Fox and Raccoon
1959
6.7
A Whistle in My Heart
1959
10.0
3 Dolls in College
1959
NR
A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
1959
9.0
Echo Mountain
1959
5.8
Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
1959
NR
The Young Boss is Third Generation
1958
7.0
The Naked General
1958
NR
The Invisible Wall
1958
NR
I Am Three People
1958
8.0
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
8.0
The Child Writers
1958
NR
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
1958
9.0
The Hotelman's Holiday
1958NR
Botchan
1958
NR
Yaji and Kita on the Road
1958
7.2
The Rickshaw Man
1958
6.6
Souls in the Moonlight II
1958
6.4
Secret of The Golden Spell
1958
NR
Family Safety
1958
NR
A Bridge for Two Alone
1958
9.0
The Princess of Badger Palace
1958
7.0
Island of Fury
1958
NR
Fancy Talker
1958
9.0
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1958
NR
The Girl in the Target
1957
NR
Travel Romances
1957
7.1
The Lower Depths
1957
NR
First Love Story
1957
9.0
The Men of Toho-ku
1957
NR
Hadaka no Machi
1957
7.0
Souls in the Moonlight
1957
10.0
On Wings of Love
1957
NR
The Chieko Story
1957
7.5
Untamed Woman
1957
NR
Turtledove
1957
6.5
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
NR
Story of a Detective's Assistant
19576.0
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
1956
10.0
Typhoon Furor
1956
NR
Easy-Going Married Couple
1956NR
Symphony for Worn-Out Shoes
1956
6.1
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956
NR
Gendai no yokubô
1956
NR
Outlaw island
1956NR
The Fencing Collegian
1956
NR
Meteor Karate Strike
1956
NR
Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
1955
NR
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
1955
7.6
Forever a Woman
1955
7.3
I Live in Fear
1955
7.5
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
NR
Subarashiki shōtai
1955
8.0
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
NR
Yukiko
1955
6.9
The Wolves
1955
NR
Shōnen shikeishū
1955
9.0
House of Many Pleasures
1955
8.0
Love Never Fails
1955
10.0
All is Well
1955
8.0
Lovetide
1955
8.0
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
NR
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954
7.5
Ditch
1954
NR
関八州勢揃い
1954
8.5
Seven Samurai
1954
NR
Shinkon noroke bushi
1953
10.0
The Man Who Came to Port
1952NR
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
NR
恐妻時代
1952
8.3
Ikiru
1952
9.0
Today is Payday
1952
9.0
Beauty and the Thief
1952
8.0
Escape from the City of Death
1952
NR
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
1952
NR
Miss Hanaogi and Santa
1952
10.0
Foghorn
1952
6.6
Vendetta of a Samurai
1952
6.8
The Life of a Horse Trader
1951
5.0
Miki, the Swordman
1951
7.5
The Blue Pearl
1951NR
Wagtail Tune
1951
7.0
The Idiot
1951
NR
The White Orchid
1951
9.0
Elegy
1951
NR
Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
1951
NR
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
1950
6.9
Scandal
1950