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Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-01-25 (102 years old)

Place of Birth

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Kō Nishimura

Biography:

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Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura).

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Known For

Acting

2002

1995

1994

1991

1990

1989

The Men Who Made Ultraman as Eiji Tsuburaya

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Makoto Nishimura

1986

1984

The Detective as Senkichi Otsubo

1983

A Hunter's Diary as Kentaro Hatanaka

1982

The Old Bear Hunter as Heizo Sekiguchi

1981

1980

Niji wo Oru as 沢木忠一郎

1979

Nutcracker Fantasy as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)
The Strangling as Yasuzo Kariba
Down with The Big Boss as Glass-Eating Mime

1978

Love and Faith as Sojin Kamiya

1977

Hokuriku Proxy War as Mr. Yasuhara
Japan's Don as Kahe Shimabara
Corrosed Syndicate as Honda Yoshikazu

1976

Manhunt as Nagaoka Ryokai

1975

1974

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi
Jack and the Beanstalk as Old bean-seller
The Family as Sentaro Watanuki

1973

Lady Snowblood as Priest Dokai
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare as Magobei "Snake" Onishi
Tsugaru Folksong as Tamezo Tsukamoto

1972

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi

1971

1970

Play It Cool as Kada

1969

The Wild Sea as Munekata
Black Rose Mansion as Ex-husband
Second Generation Young Boss as Yanosuke Hashimoto

1968

Samaritan Zatoichi as Sosuke Saruya
Living Skeleton as Nishizato
Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Policeman on Island
Black Lizard as Detective Matoba

1967

Eleven Samurai as Errant samurai Daijuro
Zatoichi the Outlaw as Uneshiro Suga
Samurai Wolf II as Magobe
Classmates as Hanada
A Killer's Key as Yasujiro Endo

1966

The Sword of Doom as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
The Threat as Kawanishi
Rub Out the Past as Tanzo Koide
The Pornographers as Detective Sanada

1965

House of Terrors as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback
Red Beard as Chief retainer
Stairs of Evil as Shimoyama
The Retreat from Kiska as Staff Officer
Tale of Ninja Duty as Chisaka Hyobu

1964

Intentions of Murder as Koichi Takahashi
The Desperate as Yamaguchi
The Glamorous Ghost as Hiroshi Asami
Warrior of the Wind as Mizuno Izumi

1963

High and Low as Third Creditor
13 Assassins as Kujuro Hirayama
Escape from Hell as Heiroku
Tale of Army Brutality as Kameoka, Zenji
Doggie March as Killer (voice)
Life of a Flower as Tada Ichiro

1962

Gorath as Murata - Secretary of Space
Tokyo Bay as Noboru Sumikawa
The Temple of Wild Geese as Mokudō Kida
Four Sisters as Michiharu Mitsumine

1961

Zero Focus as Sotaro Uhara
Yojimbo as Kuma
Blind Devotion as Denroku

1960

The Bad Sleep Well as Contract Officer Shirai
Intimidation as Matakichi Nakaike
The Lost Alibi as Okudaira

1959

My Second Brother as Goro Mitamura
The Wild Reporter as Ryu Konei

1958

Stolen Desire as Kanji Takada
The Ballad of Narayama as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
Drunken Ghost as Daigorô
Endless Desire as Pharmacist
Crimson Wings as Tetsuji Mizutani

1957

But the Flesh is Weak as Acupressurist

1956

Fountainhead as Kasuya
Frankie the Milkman as Tax Collector

1955

1954

The Street Without Sun as Extraordinary detective

1953

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