Isao Kimura
Biography
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Isao Kimura (木村 功 Kimura Isao), also known as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog (1949) as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable collaboration with Kurosawa was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai, Katsushiro. During his career he also appeared in several films directed by Mikio Naruse as well as appearing in the famous Lone Wolf and Cub film series. In addition to a film career spanning almost thirty years, Kimura founded and directed an acting company which ultimately went bankrupt. He died of esophageal cancer at 57 years old.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-06-22
Place of birth
Senda, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Images
Cast
Ikiru
1952
8.30
Young Lord Yakuza
1961
8.30
High and Low
1963
8.35
The Stragglers
1960
0.00
Black Lizard
1968
6.65
Sekidô matsuri
1951
0.00
Yukiko
1955
0.00
Assassination
1964
7.09
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974
7.50
Affair in the Snow
1968
7.00
Miyamoto Musashi
1961
7.30
Summer Clouds
1958
7.50
Beautiful Days
1955
6.70
A Billionaire
1954
5.70
Conquest
1965
5.00
Showdown in Blood
1957
0.00
Our Marriage
1962
6.70
Ofukuro
1955
0.00
Little Peach
1958
5.80
Vacuum Zone
1952
7.00
Impasse
1967
6.40
The Woman and the Pirate
1959
0.00
Where did Sharaku go?
1968
0.00
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
0.00
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
0.00
Sky Scraper!
1969
0.00
Avalanche
1956
0.00
Hahakogusa
1959
0.00
Hokkaido, My Love
1962
0.00
Stray Dog
1949
7.50
Throne of Blood
1957
7.92
Confessions Among Actresses
1971
6.10
Hero of the Red Light District
1960
8.60
The Affair
1967
6.60
Still I Live On
1951
5.70
Cape Ashizuri
1954
0.00
The Angry Street
1950
6.50
The Shape of Night
1964
6.60
Mr. Pu
1953
6.50
Beyond Love and Hate
1951
0.00
Snow Country
1965
4.00
Dancing Girl
1951
6.30
Rice
1957
6.40
Four Sisters
1962
6.00
Secret Information
1968
0.00
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
0.00
The End of a Day
1954
5.00
Tokyo Detective Girl
1959
0.00
Tengoku wa doko da
1956
0.00
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
6.30
The Thinking Leaf
1962
0.00
Journey
1967
0.00
Price of Beauty
1957
0.00
Akutoku
1958
0.00
My Brother
1976
0.00
The Story of Pure Love
1957
6.80
Weeping Doll
1951
0.00
I Saw the Killer
1956
0.00
Nippon no obaachan
1962
0.00
Knightly Advice
1962
7.00
Invitation from the Beach
1978
0.00
The Yamabiko School
1952
0.00
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
6.80
Seven Samurai
1954
8.46
Yakuza of Seki
1963
8.50
Fill the Cup with Blood
1969
0.00
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
0.00
Elegy
1951
0.00
At the End of the Clouds
1953
0.00
The Eighth Enemy
1961
0.00
City
1961
0.00
Violence
1952
0.00
Student Double Suicide
1954
0.00
White Cliffs
1960
0.00
Rusty Pendant
1967
0.00
拳銃野郎に御用心
1961
0.00