Denjirō Ōkōchi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-05 (64 years old)

Deathday

1962-07-19

Place of Birth

Buzen, Fukuoka, Japan

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Denjirō Ōkōchi (5 February 1898 – 18 July 1962) was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in jidaigeki directed by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Daisuke Itō, Sadao Yamanaka, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hiroshi Inagaki and Masahiro Makino. His real name was Masuo Ōbe. Training in Shinkokugeki under Shōjirō Sawada, Ōkōchi entered Nikkatsu in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara films playing characters such as Chūji Kunisada and Sazen Tange. At his peak, he was one of the top jidaigeki stars alongside Tsumasaburō Bandō and Chiezō Kataoka. During World War II, he also appeared in a number of war...

Acting

1933

Bangaku no issho

as Bangaku Ajikawa

1943

Sanshiro Sugata

as Shogoro Yano

1946

No Regrets for Our Youth

as Professor Yagihara

1952

1945

1934

Mito Kômon: Rai Kunitsugu no maki

as Mitsukuni Mito/Jinzaemon Tachibana

1957

1931

Jirokichi the Rat

as Jirokichi

1949

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

as Saheita Sugimoto aka Shôsuke Ohara

1956

晴姿稚児の剣法

as 愚安和尚

1933

1957

1960

Yakuza of Ina

as Boss Tora

1957

1958

1958

The Scarlet Cherry Lord

as Geki Kitazaki

1953

The Eagle of the Pacific

as Grand Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

1940

The Snake Princess

as Uehara Ittosai Nobushige

1937

Nangoku taiheiki

as Shimazu Nariakira / Masumitsu Kyunosuke

1945

Duel at Yagyu Valley

as Hozoin Kakuzenbo

1957

Torawakamaru, the Koga Ninja

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

1951

The Tale of Genji

as Takuma nyudo

1936

Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

as Ryunosuke Tsukue

1941

1944

The Dawn of Freedom

as Captain Hayami

1957

Souls in the Moonlight

as Toranosuke Shimada

1926

1961

The Red Shadow

as Munenori Yagyû

1959

1929

Kutsukake Tokijiro

as Tokijirō Kutsukake

1958

The Lost Public Funds

as Jinba Yajuro

1956

Tsukigata Hanpeita

as Gensai Mamiya

1960

The Pirates

as Tsuboya Dokyu

1940

1936

Kuriyama Daizen

as Kuriyama Daizen

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