Minoru Chiaki
Acting Born Apr 28, 1917 Hokkaido, Japan 24 credits
Biography
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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).
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Full filmography
- Seven Samurai (1954) as Heihachi Hayashida
- High and Low (1963) as First Reporter
- Rashomon (1950) as Priest
- Ikiru (1952) as Noguchi
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) as Tahei
- Throne of Blood (1957) as Yoshiaki Miki
- 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
- The Face of Another (1966) as Apartment Superintendent
- The Lower Depths (1957) as Former Samurai
- The Idiot (1951) as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) as Sasuke the boatman
- I Live in Fear (1955) as Jiro Nakajima
- Mole Alley (1953)
- A House in the Quarter (1963) as Jinzo Takesue
- Scandal (1950)
- Hero of the Red Light District (1960) as Jôsuke
- Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
- The Phantom Goblin (1962)
- The Inheritance (1962) as Junichi Fujii
- Sunflower Girl (1953)
- The Body (1962)
- Cold Rice, Osan, Chan (1965)