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Minoru Chiaki
Actor
Born April 28, 1917Died November 1, 1999 (82 years)
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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 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).
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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 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).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Minoru Chiaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
| 1985 | Gray Sunset · as Fuyukichi Takano |
| 1969 | Nippon ichi no danzetsu otoko · as Shimizu |
| 1967 | |
| 1967 | Song of Love · as The Ship-Master |
| 1966 | The Face of Another · as Apartment Superintendent |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | |
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| 1965 | |
| 1963 | Sanada fûunroku · as Yukimura Sanada |
| 1963 | A House in the Quarter · as Jinzo Takesue |
| 1963 | High and Low · as First Reporter |
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| 1962 | |
| 1962 | The Inheritance · as Junichi Fujii |
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| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Hero of the Red Light District · as Jôsuke |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Yararete tamaru ka · as Brother Ryota |
| 1960 | |
| 1959 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity · as Onodera Heichô |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Sengoku gunto-den · as Jibu |
| 1959 | Gigantis: The Fire Monster · as Kôji Kobayashi |
| 1958 | The Hidden Fortress · as Tahei |
| 1958 | Little Peach · as Saburo Yoshida |
| 1958 | Hijô-sen · as Cast |
| 1957 | The Lower Depths · as Former Samurai |
| 1957 | Throne of Blood · as Yoshiaki Miki |
| 1956 | A Wife's Heart · as Zenichi |
| 1956 | Kyûketsu-ga · as Sango Kawase |
| 1956 | Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island · as Sasuke The Boatman |
| 1955 | I Live in Fear · as Jiro Nakajima |
| 1955 | Godzilla Raids Again · as Kôji Kobayashi |
| 1955 | |
| 1954 | |
| 1954 | Seven Samurai · as Heihachi Hayashida |
| 1953 | |
| 1952 | Ikiru · as Noguchi |
| 1952 | |
| 1951 | The Idiot · as Mutsuo Kayama, The Secretary |
| 1950 | |
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| 1949 |