Isao Kimura
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 15.277 |
| Birthday | 1923-06-22 |
| Place of Birth | Senda, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 木村功, Kō Kimura, Исао Кимура, |
1952
Ikiru
8.309/1093
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1963
High and Low
8.32/859
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High and Low
1968
Black Lizard
6.7/23
A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
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Black Lizard
1966
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
6.6/14
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an a...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1964
Assassination
7.061/33
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Assassination
1974
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
7.5/93
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1968
Affair in the Snow
7/13
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had pl...
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Affair in the Snow
1962
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
7.4/11
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1963
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
7/11
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
7/11
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
1965
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
7.3/11
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters maki...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1961
Miyamoto Musashi
7.3/11
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicio...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1958
Summer Clouds
7.5/13
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Summer Clouds
1955
Beautiful Days
6.7/6
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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Beautiful Days
1964
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
6.8/5
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1954
A Billionaire
5.7/3
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
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A Billionaire
1962
Our Marriage
6.7/6
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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Our Marriage
1952
Vacuum Zone
7/1
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn ab...
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Vacuum Zone
1960
Hero of the Red Light District
8.6/10
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring b...
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Hero of the Red Light District
1965
Snow Country
4/1
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
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Snow Country
1967
Impasse
6.385/13
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by a...
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Impasse
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
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Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is know...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1949
Stray Dog
7.502/291
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1957
Throne of Blood
7.936/811
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood
1971
Confessions Among Actresses
6/10
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b...
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Confessions Among Actresses
1967
The Affair
6.611/18
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herse...
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The Affair
1958
Little Peach
5.75/12
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Little Peach
1951
Still I Live On
5.7/3
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe...
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Still I Live On
1954
Cape Ashizuri
0/0
1950s Japanese drama.
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Cape Ashizuri
1950
The Angry Street
6.5/6
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
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The Angry Street
1964
The Shape of Night
6.6/5
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing dem...
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The Shape of Night
1953
Mr. Pu
6.5/2
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu
1965
Conquest
5/1
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Conquest
1951
Dancing Girl
6.3/10
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Dancing Girl
1957
Rice
6.4/9
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Rice
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
0/0
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1974
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
7.115/113
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
6.978/23
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1962
Four Sisters
6/1
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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Four Sisters
1968
Secret Information
0/0
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to...
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Secret Information
1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1954
The End of a Day
0/0
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Ha...
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The End of a Day
1959
Tokyo Detective Girl
0/0
Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.
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Tokyo Detective Girl
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Stray Dog
0/0
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).
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1956
Tengoku wa doko da
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Tengoku wa doko da
1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
6.318/11
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The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
The Thinking Leaf
0/0
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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The Thinking Leaf
1961
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1967
Journey
0/0
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Journey
1957
Price of Beauty
0/0
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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Price of Beauty
1958
Akutoku
0/0
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi S...
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Akutoku
1976
My Brother
0/0
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My Brother
1957
The Story of Pure Love
6.8/5
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately tr...
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The Story of Pure Love
1951
Weeping Doll
0/0
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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Weeping Doll
1956
I Saw the Killer
0/0
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I Saw the Killer
1962
Nippon no obaachan
0/0
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Nippon no obaachan
1962
Knightly Advice
7/1
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Knightly Advice
1978
Invitation from the Beach
0/0
A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
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Invitation from the Beach
1952
The Yamabiko School
0/0
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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The Yamabiko School
1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
6.8/5
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
1954
Seven Samurai
8.459/3563
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
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Seven Samurai
1963
Yakuza of Seki
8.5/2
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, w...
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Yakuza of Seki
1969
Fill the Cup with Blood
0/0
Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.
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Fill the Cup with Blood
1963
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
0/0
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Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1951
Elegy
0/0
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...
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Elegy
1953
At the End of the Clouds
0/0
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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At the End of the Clouds
1961
The Eighth Enemy
0/0
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The Eighth Enemy
1961
City
0/0
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City
1963
Cases of Umon:Ａ Woman with An Umbrella
0/0
Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who i...
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Cases of Umon:Ａ Woman with An Umbrella
1960
The Stragglers
0/0
The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived
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The Stragglers
1951
Sekidô matsuri
0/0
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Sekidô matsuri
1955
Yukiko
0/0
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Yukiko
1957
Showdown in Blood
0/0
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...
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Showdown in Blood
1955
Ofukuro
0/0
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizu...
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Ofukuro
1968
Where did Sharaku go?
0/0
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out...
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Where did Sharaku go?
1969
Sky Scraper!
0/0
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
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Sky Scraper!
1961
Young Lord Yakuza
0/0
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.
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Young Lord Yakuza
1970
盛り場流し唄 新宿の女
0/0
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盛り場流し唄 新宿の女
1959
Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
0/0
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Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
1959
女と海賊
0/0
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女と海賊
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
0/0
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1956
Avalanche
0/0
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Avalanche
1959
Hahakogusa
0/0
Based on the Nobu Koito story
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Hahakogusa
1962
Hokkaido, My Love
0/0
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido
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