Minoru Chiaki
Known for ActingBorn 1917-04-28 — died 1999-11-01Hokkaido, Japan
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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.
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In Seven Samurai he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi. 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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Known for
Seven Samurai
1954 · as Heihachi Hayashida
High and Low
1963 · as First Reporter
Ikiru
1952 · as Noguchi
Rashomon
1950 · as Priest
Throne of Blood
1957 · as Yoshiaki Miki
The Hidden Fortress
1958 · as Tahei
Godzilla Raids Again
1955 · as Kôji Kobayashi
Stray Dog
1949 · as Girlie Show director
The Face of Another
1966 · as Apartment Superintendent
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956 · as Sasuke the boatman
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959 · as Onodera Heichô
The Idiot
1951 · as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
The Lower Depths
1957 · as Former Samurai
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
Scandal
1950
I Live in Fear
1955 · as Jiro Nakajima
Lion Festival of Echigo
1962
A House in the Quarter
1963 · as Jinzo Takesue