Acting
Isao Kimura
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movies with Isao Kimura
Seven Samurai
1954
High and Low
1963
Ikiru
1952
Throne of Blood
1957
Stray Dog
1949
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974
Black Lizard
1968
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
Summer Clouds
1958
The Stragglers
1960
The Angry Street
1950
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965
The Story of Pure Love
1957
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
Little Peach
1958
Hero of the Red Light District
1960
The Harbor Lights
1961
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963
The Shape of Night
1964
Knightly Advice
1962
The Affair
1967
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Four Sisters
1962
Snow Country
1965
Miyamoto Musashi
1961
Confessions Among Actresses
1971
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966
Assassination
1964
Conquest
1965
Rice
1957
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962
Sky Scraper!
1969
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1964
Yakuza of Seki
1963
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
I Saw the Killer
1956
Dancing Girl
1951
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
At the End of the Clouds
1953
White Cliffs
1960
A Billionaire
1954
Mr. Pu
1953
Still I Live On
1951
Elegy
1951
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1963
Yukiko
1955
Journey
1967
The Love Letter Trial
1951
Beautiful Days
1955
The End of a Day
1954
Vacuum Zone
1952
Violence
1952
Price of Beauty
1957
Tengoku wa doko da
1956
Beyond Love and Hate
1951
Cape Ashizuri
1954
Young Lord Yakuza
1961
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
Where did Sharaku go?
1968
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Weeping Doll
1951
The Woman and the Pirate
1959
Secret Information
1968
Tokyo Detective Girl
1959
Affair in the Snow
1968
Impasse
1967
City
1961
Avalanche
1956
The Thinking Leaf
1962
Ofukuro
1955
Showdown in Blood
1957
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1961
Our Marriage
1962
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
2002
Student Double Suicide
1954
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1957
Vice
1958
The Yamabiko School
1952
Fill the Cup with Blood
1969
Rusty Pendant
1967
Daigaku buyū-den
1961
Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
1970
Look Up, Noble One
1966
Invitation from the Beach
1978
The Eighth Enemy
1961
My Brother
1976
Hokkaido, My Love
1962
The Wife is a University Student
1956
Hahakogusa
1959
The Brass General
1960
Beware of The Gunman
1961
遺書 白い少女
1976
