Minoru Chiaki
Actor
Biography
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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.
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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Filmography
Rashomon
as Priest 1950
Ikiru
as Noguchi 1952
High and Low
as First Reporter 1963
Throne of Blood
as Yoshiaki Miki 1957
The Hidden Fortress
as Tahei 1958
Stray Dog
as Girlie Show director 1949
Godzilla Raids Again
as Kôji Kobayashi 1955
The Face of Another
as Apartment Superintendent 1966
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Onodera Heichô 1959
The Lower Depths
as Former Samurai 1957
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Sasuke the boatman 1956
The Idiot
as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary 1951
I Live in Fear
as Jiro Nakajima 1955
Scandal
1950
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
as Kobayashi (as Mindru Chiaki) 1959
The Inheritance
as Junichi Fujii 1962