Minoru Chiaki
Actor
Date of birth: April 28, 1917Date of death: November 1, 1999 (82)City: Hokkaido, Japan
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Minoru Chiaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
23 roles1980s2 roles
1960s7 roles
1950s13 roles
1940s1 role
