
Isao Kimura
Known for: Acting
Born: June 22, 1923
Died: July 4, 1981
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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…
Known for

A Billionaire
1954

Ofukuro
1955

Vacuum Zone
1952
Hokkaido, My Love
1962

Cape Ashizuri
1954

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955

I Saw the Killer
1956

The Yamabiko School
1952

Student Double Suicide
1954

White Cliffs
1960

Black Lizard
1968

Yukiko
1955

Affair in the Snow
1968

Impasse
1967

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955

Sky Scraper!
1969

Avalanche
1956

Secret Information
1968

Tokyo Detective Girl
1959

Tengoku wa doko da
1956

Vice
1958

At the End of the Clouds
1953

Beware of The Gunman
1961

The Stragglers
1960

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962

Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964

Summer Clouds
1958

Beautiful Days
1955

Little Peach
1958

Hero of the Red Light District
1960

Still I Live On
1951

Snow Country
1965

The End of a Day
1954

The Temple of Wild Geese
1962

Journey
1967

Invitation from the Beach
1978

Fill the Cup with Blood
1969

Violence
1952

Rusty Pendant
1967

Daigaku buyū-den
1961

The Brass General
1960

The Wife is a University Student
1956

Young Lord Yakuza
1961

Assassination
1964

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965

Miyamoto Musashi
1961

Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1964

Conquest
1965

Our Marriage
1962

The Woman and the Pirate
1959

Dancing Girl
1951

Four Sisters
1962

The Thinking Leaf
1962

Price of Beauty
1957

My Brother
1976

The Story of Pure Love
1957

Knightly Advice
1962

Yakuza of Seki
1963

City
1961

High and Low
1963

Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
1970

Confessions Among Actresses
1971

The Affair
1967

The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1961

The Eighth Enemy
1961

Look Up, Noble One
1966

Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1963

Sekidô matsuri
1951

Showdown in Blood
1957

Where did Sharaku go?
1968

Mr. Pu
1953

Rice
1957

Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958

遺書 白い少女
1976

The Shape of Night
1964

Seven Samurai
1954

The Valley Between Love and Death
1954

Hahakogusa
1959

Beyond Love and Hate
1951

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
2002

Weeping Doll
1951

The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942

Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974

Elegy
1951

Stray Dog
1949

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963

Ikiru
1952

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953

Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1957

The Love Letter Trial
1951

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959

The Angry Street
1950

The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947

Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974

Nippon no obaachan
1962

The Harbor Lights
1961

Throne of Blood
1957

Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
1978

Ayu no uta
1979

Nukata no Ōkimi
1980

Fuyu no Undokai
1977