Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki

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Birthday: 
30 July 1917, Hokkaido, Japan (some sources say 28 April 1917)
Birth Name: 
Katsuharu Sasaki
Height: 
182 cm
Japanese character actor equally adept at comic or seriously unsavory roles. Chiaki graduated from the University of Chuo with degrees in economics and commerce, but almost immediately found that his interest lay more with the theatre. In 1937, he began to study with the Shin-Tsukiji Gekidan ("The New Tsukiji Theatre Troupe"). During the ... Show more »
Japanese character actor equally adept at comic or seriously unsavory roles. Chiaki graduated from the University of Chuo with degrees in economics and commerce, but almost immediately found that his interest lay more with the theatre. In 1937, he began to study with the Shin-Tsukiji Gekidan ("The New Tsukiji Theatre Troupe"). During the Second World War, he served as director of the Bara-Za theatre company. Director Akira Kurosawa saw Chiaki in a stage production of the play "Dataii" (from which Kurosawa would later adapt for: Shizukanaru kettô (1949) ) and advised him to enter films. Chiaki became a favorite of the great director, who cast him in Nora inu (1949) and nearly a dozen other films. Chiaki was notable as the good-natured Heihachi in Shichinin no samurai (1954) and as the comic deserter Tahei in _Kakushi toride no san akunin (1958)_. In 1975, Chiaki suffered a stroke. He recovered and in 1985 won Japan Academy Award for Best Actor in Hana ichimonme (1985). The last survivor of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai title players, Chiaki died of coronary and pulmonary failure in 1999. Show less «

Minoru Chiaki's FILMOGRAPHY

Ikiru

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The Face of Another (Tanin no kao)

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High and Low

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Ogin-sama

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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Ningen no joken)

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The Hidden Fortress

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Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo)

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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

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I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku)

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Godzilla Raids Again [Audio: Eng]

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Seven Samurai

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Hakuchi

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Rashomon

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Minoru Chiaki'S roles

Heihachi Hayashida
Heihachi Hayashida