Isao Kimura [20830]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1.2619
Birthplace: Senda, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: 1923-06-22
Deathday: 1981-07-04
Age: 58 years
Movies: 91
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: 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 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.

Akira Kurosawa:
2002-10-25
Invitation from
1978-04-08
My Brother
1976-12-25
Pastoral: To Die
1974-12-28
Lone Wolf and Cu
1974-04-24
Confessions Amon
1971-11-17
Pleasure Resort
1970-05-30
Fill the Cup wit
1969-10-08
Sky Scraper!
1969-05-14
Where did Sharak
1968-08-22
Black Lizard
1968-08-14
Secret Informati
1968-05-14
Affair in the Sn
1968-01-31
Impasse
1967-12-01
Journey
1967-11-12
Rusty Pendant
1967-09-14
The Affair
1967-05-13
Sazen Tange and
1966-05-25
Conquest
1965-11-21
Miyamoto Musashi
1965-09-04
Snow Country
1965-04-10
Cruel Story of t
1964-12-12
The Shape of Nig
1964-11-01
Assassination
1964-07-04
Miyamoto Musashi
1964-01-01
Yakuza of Seki
1963-11-20
Miyamoto Musashi
1963-08-14
Cases of Umon:
1963-06-30
Bloody Record of
1963-05-12
Bushido: The Cru
1963-04-28
High and Low
1963-03-01
Miyamoto Musashi
1962-11-17
Four Sisters
1962-07-01
The Thinking Lea
1962-05-16
Our Marriage
1962-03-18
Knightly Advice
1962-01-31
The Temple of Wi
1962-01-21
Nippon no obaach
1962-01-03
Hokkaido, My Lov
1962-01-01
The Eighth Enemy
1961-12-15
City
1961-10-14
The Prickly-Mout
1961-08-05
Young Lord Yakuz
1961-06-11
Miyamoto Musashi
1961-05-27
拳銃野郎に
1961-02-26
The Stragglers
1960-10-05
Hero of the Red
1960-09-03
White Cliffs
1960-04-05
Tokyo Detective
1959-09-23
Police Precinct:
1959-09-15
Hahakogusa
1959-04-22
The Woman and th
1959-04-01
Summer Clouds
1958-09-02
Beyond the Seaso
1958-06-10
Little Peach
1958-05-13
Akutoku
1958-02-19
The Story of Pur
1957-10-15
Showdown in Bloo
1957-08-28
Price of Beauty
1957-03-13
Rice
1957-03-04
Throne of Blood
1957-01-15
Tengoku wa doko
1956-04-23
Avalanche
1956-03-22
I Saw the Killer
1956-01-29
Tomorrow I'll Be
1955-10-05
Yukiko
1955-08-03
Beautiful Days
1955-05-25
Ofukuro
1955-04-10
The Sacrifice of
1955-01-09
A Billionaire
1954-11-22
The Valley Betwe
1954-09-21
Student Double S
1954-07-27
Cape Ashizuri
1954-05-18
Seven Samurai
1954-04-26
The End of a Day
1954-02-03
At the End of th
1953-06-09
Mr. Pu
1953-04-15
A Lonely Woman i
1953-02-20
Vacuum Zone
1952-12-10
Ikiru
1952-10-09
Violence
1952-08-25
The Yamabiko Sch
1952-05-01
Sekidô matsuri
1951-12-07
Dancing Girl
1951-08-17
Still I Live On
1951-07-04
Weeping Doll
1951-05-19
Elegy
1951-02-22
Beyond Love and
1951-01-11
The Angry Street
1950-05-14
Stray Dog
1949-10-17
The Love of the
1947-08-16