Isao Kimura
Acting
Biography
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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.
As actor 109
Seven Samurai
1954
High and Low
1963
Ikiru
1952
Ayu no uta
1979
Throne of Blood
1957
Vacuum Zone
1952
Four Sisters
1962
Cape Ashizuri
1954
Rusty Pendant
1967
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974
Assassination
1964
Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
1970
The Angry Street
1950
Fuyu no Undokai
1977
The Woman and the Pirate
1959
Vice
1958
The Yamabiko School
1952
Stray Dog
1949
Still I Live On
1951
Yakuza of Seki
1963
Snow Country
1965
Sky Scraper!
1969
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
The Affair
1967
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974
The Shape of Night
1964
The End of a Day
1954
Hero of the Red Light District
1960
Confessions Among Actresses
1971
Young Lord Yakuza
1961
Our Marriage
1962
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
At the End of the Clouds
1953
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1957
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
Nukata no Ōkimi
1980
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
Rice
1957
Little Peach
1958
Summer Clouds
1958
Conquest
1965
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
The Love Letter Trial
1951
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Symphony for Worn-Out Shoes
1956
I Saw the Killer
1956
Look Up, Noble One
1966
Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
1978
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
Will to Conquer
1970
Where's Paradise?
1956
Showdown in Blood
1957
Beautiful Days
1955
Secret Information
1968
Weeping Doll
1951
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1964
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965
Miyamoto Musashi
1961
The Thinking Leaf
1962
Black Lizard
1968
Yukiko
1955
My Brother
1976
The Story of Pure Love
1957
The Journey
1967
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
1951
Impasse
1967
The Harbor Lights
1961
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1961
Camellia Gate
1964
Elegy
1951
遺書 白い少女
1976
Knightly Advice
1962
Mr. Pu
1953
Daigaku buyū-den
1961
Avalanche
1956
Student Double Suicide
1954
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
A Billionaire
1954
Dancing Girl
1951
The Eighth Enemy
1961
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1963
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
Beware of The Gunman
1961
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Beyond Love and Hate
1951
Tokyo Detective Girl
1959
City
1961
Affair in the Snow
1968
Where did Sharaku go?
1968
The Stragglers
1960
The Brass General
1960
Could I But Live
1964
Fill the Cup with Blood
1969
Hokkaido, My Love
1962
Invitation from the Beach
1978
Ofukuro
1955
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
White Cliffs
1960
The Wife is a University Student
1956
Violence
1952
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
2002
Hahakogusa
1959
Price of Beauty
1957