Minoru Chiaki
Known for: Actor
Born: 28 April 1917, Hokkaido, Japan
Died: 1 November 1999
Credits: 60+ titles
Minoru Chiaki (April 28, 1917 - November 1, 1999) 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
Don Matsugoro's Big Adventure
Gray Sunset
Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
Karafuto 1945 Summer
Chiba Shusaku: Kendo Masshigura
Innocent Sinner
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Inu to Asachan
Libido
Song of Love
Koto—The Lake of Tears
The Face of Another
Zero Fighter
Yakuza Vassal
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Taking the Castle
Black Thief
Kono sora no aru kagiri
The Sharks
Sasuke and His Comedians
Jolly Barbers
A House in the Quarter
20 Duels of Young Shingo: Conclusion
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Uogashi no senpū musume
Five Ronins
High and Low
Street of Wandering Men
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
The Paper Crane
The Body
Lion Festival of Echigo
Drunken Sword
Tokyo's Business District
The Phantom Goblin
A Carpenter and Children
The Ambitious Youth
Love Under the Crucifix
The Christian Revolt
The Princess and the Bearded Lord
The Inheritance
Till Tomorrow Is
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Run, Genta, Run!
Young Lord and Second Son
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
The Youth and His Amulet
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Young Lord Yakuza
Futaridake no taiyō
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 1
Case of a Young Lord 8
If You're Man Enough
Scarier than the Devil
Mighty Shosuke
Shinran, Part II
What Price Love?
Hero of the Red Light District