Minoru Chiaki
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1917-04-28 – 1999-11-01
Place of birth: 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.
Known for
The Hidden Fortress
1958Tahei
Rashomon
1950Priest
Godzilla Raids Again
1955Kôji Kobayashi
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 1
1961Oogonju
1950Eiji Yabuki
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
20 Duels of Young Shingo: Conclusion
1963
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
1969Shimizu
Ikiru
1952Noguchi
Bodyguard from Hell
1955
I Live in Fear
1955Jiro Nakajima
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956Sasuke the boatman
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1963Kakurai Yosuke
The Idiot
1951Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Young Lord Yakuza
1961
The Lower Depths
1957Former Samurai
High and Low
1963First Reporter
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
The Face of Another
1966Apartment Superintendent