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Minoru Chiaki
Actor
Died 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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Filmography
| 1985 | Gray Sunset · as Fuyukichi Takano |
| 1969 | Nippon ichi no danzetsu otoko · as Shimizu |
| 1967 | Libido · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Song of Love · as The Ship-master |
| 1966 | The Face of Another · as Apartment Superintendent |
| 1966 | Zero faita dai kûsen · as Unknown |
| 1966 | Hatamoto yakuza · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Shirotori · as Unknown |
| 1963 | Sanada fûunroku · as Yukimura Sanada |
| 1963 | High and Low · as First Reporter |
| 1963 | |
| 1962 | The Revolutionary · as Unknown |
| 1962 | The Inheritance · as Junichi Fujii |
| 1962 | The Body · as Unknown |
| 1962 | Drunken Sword · as Unknown |
| 1962 | Gale of Tokai · as Unknown |
| 1961 | The Youth and His Amulet · as Unknown |
| 1961 | Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia · as Unknown |
| 1960 | Yararete tamaru ka · as Brother Ryota |
| 1959 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity · as Onodera Heichô |
| 1958 | The Hidden Fortress · as Tahei |
| 1957 | Throne of Blood · as Yoshiaki Miki |
| 1957 | The Lower Depths · as Former Samurai |
| 1956 | Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island · as Sasuke the boatman |
| 1955 | Godzilla Raids Again · as Kôji Kobayashi |
| 1955 | I Live in Fear · as Jiro Nakajima |
| 1954 | Seven Samurai · as Heihachi Hayashida |
| 1954 | Jirochô sangokushi: Kôjinyama zenzen · as Unknown |
| 1952 | Ikiru · as Noguchi |
| 1952 | Vendetta of a Samurai · as Unknown |
| 1951 | The Idiot · as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | |
| 1949 |