Minoru Chiaki
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Seven Samurai
1954
as Heihachi Hayashida
High and Low
1963
as First Reporter
Rashomon
1950
as Priest
Ikiru
1952
as Noguchi
Throne of Blood
1957
as Yoshiaki Miki
The Hidden Fortress
1958
as Tahei
The Face of Another
1966
as Apartment Superintendent
Godzilla Raids Again
1955
as Kôji Kobayashi
Stray Dog
1949
as Girlie Show director
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959
as Onodera Heichô
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
as Sasuke the boatman
The Idiot
1951
as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Vendetta of a Samurai
1952
A Carpenter and Children
1962
I Live in Fear
1955
as Jiro Nakajima
Scandal
1950
Little Peach
1958
as Saburo Yoshida
Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
1980
The Inheritance
1962
as Junichi Fujii
Taking the Castle
1965