
Isao Kimura
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.
Acting (94 movies)

Ikiru
1952

Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1963

Young Lord Yakuza
1961

High and Low
1963

The Stragglers
1960

Black Lizard
1968

Sekidô matsuri
1951

Yukiko
1955

Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
1970

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966

Assassination
1964

Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974

Affair in the Snow
1968

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962

Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
1964

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965

Miyamoto Musashi
1961

Summer Clouds
1958

Beautiful Days
1955

Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1964

A Billionaire
1954

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959

Conquest
1965

Showdown in Blood
1957

Our Marriage
1962

Ofukuro
1955

Little Peach
1958

Vacuum Zone
1952

Impasse
1967

The Woman and the Pirate
1959

Where did Sharaku go?
1968

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953

Sky Scraper!
1969

Avalanche
1956

Hahakogusa
1959

Stray Dog
1949

Throne of Blood
1957

Confessions Among Actresses
1971

Hero of the Red Light District
1960

The Affair
1967

Still I Live On
1951

The Angry Street
1950

The Shape of Night
1964

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955

Mr. Pu
1953

Beyond Love and Hate
1951

Snow Country
1965

Dancing Girl
1951

Rice
1957

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963

Four Sisters
1962

Secret Information
1968

Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958

The End of a Day
1954

Tokyo Detective Girl
1959

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

Tengoku wa doko da
1956

The Temple of Wild Geese
1962

The Thinking Leaf
1962

The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1961

Journey
1967

Price of Beauty
1957

Akutoku
1958

My Brother
1976

The Story of Pure Love
1957

Weeping Doll
1951

I Saw the Killer
1956

Nippon no obaachan
1962

Knightly Advice
1962

Invitation from the Beach
1978

The Yamabiko School
1952

The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947

Seven Samurai
1954

Yakuza of Seki
1963

Fill the Cup with Blood
1969

Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963

Elegy
1951

At the End of the Clouds
1953

The Eighth Enemy
1961

City
1961

Violence
1952

Student Double Suicide
1954

The Valley Between Love and Death
1954

White Cliffs
1960

Rusty Pendant
1967

拳銃野郎に御用心
1961

The Harbor Lights
1961

Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1957

Daigaku buyū-den
1961

The Brass General
1960

The Wife is a University Student
1956
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