Kō Nishimura

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-01-25 (74 years old)

Deathday

1997-04-29

Place of Birth

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Kō Nishimura

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1973

Lady Snowblood

as Priest Dokai

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Contract Officer Shirai

1956

1963

High and Low

as Third Creditor

1969

The Wild Sea

as Munekata

1983

1967

Eleven Samurai

as Errant samurai Daijuro

1969

1958

Stolen Desire

as Kanji Takada

1972

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi

1973

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

as Magobei "Snake" Onishi

1974

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi

1959

My Second Brother

as Goro Mitamura

1964

Intentions of Murder

as Koichi Takahashi

1976

Manhunt

as Nagaoka Ryokai

1963

13 Assassins

as Kujuro Hirayama

1966

The Sword of Doom

as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'

1967

Zatoichi the Outlaw

as Uneshiro Suga

1968

Samaritan Zatoichi

as Sosuke Saruya

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Makoto Nishimura

1967

1960

Intimidation

as Matakichi Nakaike

1963

1973

Tsugaru Folksong

as Tamezo Tsukamoto

1969

Black Rose Mansion

as Ex-husband

1968

Living Skeleton

as Nishizato

1958

The Ballad of Narayama

as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)

1960

1961

Zero Focus

as Sotaro Uhara

1965

House of Terrors

as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback

1959

The Wild Reporter

as Ryu Konei

1974

Jack and the Beanstalk

as Old bean-seller

1964

The Desperate

as Yamaguchi

1969

Second Generation Young Boss

as Yanosuke Hashimoto

1979

Nutcracker Fantasy

as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)

1955

1967

1961

Yojimbo

as Kuma

1965

Red Beard

as Chief retainer

1978

Love and Faith

as Sojin Kamiya

1962

Gorath

as Murata - Secretary of Space

1970

1974

The Family

as Sentaro Watanuki

1982

The Old Bear Hunter

as Heizo Sekiguchi

1967

Classmates

as Hanada

1984

1964

The Glamorous Ghost

as Hiroshi Asami

1964

1958

Drunken Ghost

as Daigorô

1965

Stairs of Evil

as Shimoyama

1958

Endless Desire

as Pharmacist

1960

The Lost Alibi

as Okudaira

1968

Age of Japanese Guerrillas

as Policeman on Island

1968

1965

The Retreat from Kiska

as Staff Officer

1977

Hokuriku Proxy War

as Mr. Yasuhara

1966

The Threat

as Kawanishi

1962

Tokyo Bay

as Noboru Sumikawa

1964

Warrior of the Wind

as Mizuno Izumi

1979

The Strangling

as Yasuzo Kariba

1961

Blind Devotion

as Denroku

1968

Black Lizard

as Detective Matoba

1979

Down with The Big Boss

as Glass-Eating Mime

1956

Fountainhead

as Kasuya

1964

1962

1967

A Killer's Key

as Yasujiro Endo

1966

Rub Out the Past

as Tanzo Koide

1958

1978

1963

Tale of Army Brutality

as Kameoka, Zenji

1984

The Detective

as Senkichi Otsubo

1965

Tale of Ninja Duty

as Chisaka Hyobu

1983

A Hunter's Diary

as Kentaro Hatanaka

1957

But the Flesh is Weak

as Acupressurist

1969

1962

Four Sisters

as Michiharu Mitsumine

1963

Doggie March

as Killer (voice)

1965

Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

as 今川義元

1954

The Street Without Sun

as Extraordinary detective

1989

The Men Who Made Ultraman

as Eiji Tsuburaya

1957

1977

Japan's Don

as Kahe Shimabara

1958

Crimson Wings

as Tetsuji Mizutani

1966

The Pornographers

as Detective Sanada

1956

Frankie the Milkman

as Tax Collector

1963

Miren

as Okazaki

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