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Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki as priest in Rashomon (1950).Born July 30, 1917
Hokkaidō, JapanDied November 1, 1999 (aged 82)
Fuchu, Tokyo, JapanOccupation Actor Years active 1949 - 1999 Minoru Chiaki (千秋 実 Chiaki Minoru , July 30, 1917 (some sources say April 28)–November 1, 1999) 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, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. Ironically, in real life, he turned out to be the last of the seven actors to die.
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).[1]
Filmography
- Stray Dog (1949) - as Girlie Show director
- Rashōmon (1950) - as priest
- The Idiot (1951) - as the secretary Mutsuo Kayama
- Ikiru (1952) - as Noguchi
- Mōjū tsukai no shōjo (1952)
- Seven Samurai (1954) - as Heihachi Hayashida, one of the samurai
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955) - as Kobayashi
- I Live in Fear (1955) - as Jiro Nakajima
- Throne Of Blood (1957) - as Yoshiaki Miki
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) - as Tahei
- High and Low (1963) - as Journalist
- Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963) - as Yukimura Sanada
- Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974) - as the planter.
- Gray Sunset (Hana Ichimonme) (1985) - as Fuyukichi Takano
References
- ^ "Awards for Hana ichimonme (1985)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202892/awards. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
External links
- Minoru Chiaki at the Internet Movie Database
- Minoru Chiaki at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Ken Takakura (1978) · Ken Ogata (1979) · Tomisaburo Wakayama (1980) · Ken Takakura (1981) · Ken Takakura (1982) · Mitsuru Hirata (1983) · Ken Ogata (1984) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1985) · Minoru Chiaki (1986) · Ken Ogata (1987) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1988) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1989) · Rentaro Mikuni (1990) · Ittoku Kishibe (1991) · Rentaro Mikuni (1992) · Masahiro Motoki (1993) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1994) · Kōichi Satō (1995) · Rentaro Mikuni (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Kōji Yakusho (1998) · Akira Emoto (1999) · Ken Takakura (2000) · Akira Terao (2001) · Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) · Hiroyuki Sanada (2003) · Kiichi Nakai (2004) · Akira Terao (2005) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2006) · Ken Watanabe (2007) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2008) · Masahiro Motoki (2009) · Ken Watanabe (2010)
Categories:- 1917 births
- 1999 deaths
- People from Hokkaidō
- Japanese actors
- Japanese actor stubs
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