Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki as priest in Rashomon (1950).
Born	July 30, 1917(1917-07-30) Hokkaidō, Japan
Died	November 1, 1999(1999-11-01) (aged 82) Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	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

1. ^ "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)

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Name	Chiaki, Minoru
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Date of birth	July 30, 1917
Place of birth	Hokkaidō, Japan
Date of death	November 1, 1999
Place of death	Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan