Minoru Chiaki

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-04-28 (82 years old)

Deathday

1999-11-01

Place of Birth

Hokkaido, Japan

Minoru Chiaki

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.

Acting

1950

Rashomon

as Priest

1955

Godzilla Raids Again

as Kôji Kobayashi

1950

Oogonju

as Eiji Yabuki

1952

Ikiru

as Noguchi

1955

I Live in Fear

as Jiro Nakajima

1956

1951

The Idiot

as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

1957

The Lower Depths

as Former Samurai

1963

High and Low

as First Reporter

1966

The Face of Another

as Apartment Superintendent

1952

Today is Payday

as General Manager of General Affairs Department

1960

What Price Love?

as Matashiro

1959

Gigantis, the Fire Monster

as Kobayashi (as Mindru Chiaki)

1966

1985

Gray Sunset

as Fuyukichi Takano

1949

Stray Dog

as Girlie Show director

1957

Throne of Blood

as Yoshiaki Miki

1960

Yakuza of Ina

as Kichitaro

1956

A Wife's Heart

as Zenichi

1958

Little Peach

as Saburo Yoshida

1987

1962

The Inheritance

as Junichi Fujii

1956

The Vampire Moth

as Sango Kawase

1967

1963

Sasuke and His Comedians

as Yukimura Sanada

1963

A House in the Quarter

as Jinzo Takesue

1951

Wakôdo no uta

as Hayashi

1952

Beauty and the Thief

as Takeichi no Takamaru

1954

Seven Samurai

as Heihachi Hayashida

1967

Song of Love

as The Ship-master

1963

Jolly Barbers

as Ebina Ginpei

1960

Won't Stand for Dying

as Brother Ryota

1957

Talkative Company President

as Omaeda (President)

1957

Skin-Colored Moon

as Umekichi ishikura

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