Portrait of Kō Nishimura

Kō Nishimura

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: January 25, 1923

Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Filmography

1989
The Men Who Made Ultraman

as Eiji Tsuburaya

1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Makoto Nishimura

1984
The Detective

as Senkichi Otsubo

1984
1983
A Hunter's Diary

as Kentaro Hatanaka

1982
The Old Bear Hunter

as Heizo Sekiguchi

1980
Niji wo Oru

as 沢木忠一郎

1979
The Strangling

as Yasuzo Kariba

1979
Down with The Big Boss

as Glass-Eating Mime

1979
Nutcracker Fantasy

as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)

1978
1978
Love and Faith

as Sojin Kamiya

1978
The Incident

as Goichi Ômura

1977
Fushoku no kōzō

as Honda Yoshikazu

1977
Hokuriku Proxy War

as Mr. Yasuhara

1977
Japan's Don

as Kahe Shimabara

1976
Manhunt

as Nagaoka Ryokai

1976
Elegy

as Nobuhisa Hyodo

1974
Jack and the Beanstalk

as Old bean-seller

1974
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi

1974
The Family

as Sentaro Watanuki

1973
Tsugaru Folksong

as Tamezo Tsukamoto

1973
Lady Snowblood

as Priest Dokai

1973
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

as Magobei "Snake" Onishi

1972
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi

1970
1969
Second Generation Young Boss

as Yanosuke Hashimoto

1969
The Wild Sea

as Munekata

1969
Black Rose Mansion

as Ex-husband

1969
1969
1968
Samaritan Zatoichi

as Sosuke Saruya

1968
Living Skeleton

as Nishizato

1968
Age of Japanese Guerrillas

as Policeman on Island

1968
Black Lizard

as Detective Matoba

1968
1967
Eleven Samurai

as Errant samurai Daijuro

1967
A Killer's Key

as Yasujiro Endo

1967
1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw

as Uneshiro Suga

1967
Classmates

as Hanada

1967
1966
Rub Out the Past

as Tanzo Koide

1966
The Pornographers

as Detective Sanada

1966
The Sword of Doom

as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'

1966
The Threat

as Kawanishi

1965
Stairs of Evil

as Shimoyama

1965
House of Terrors

as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback

1965
The Retreat from Kiska

as Staff Officer

1965
Red Beard

as Chief retainer

1965
Tale of Ninja Duty

as Chisaka Hyobu

1965
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

as 今川義元

1964
1964
The Glamorous Ghost

as Hiroshi Asami

1964
Intentions of Murder

as Koichi Takahashi

1964
The Desperate

as Yamaguchi

1964
1964
Warrior of the Wind

as Mizuno Izumi

1963
Doggie March

as Killer (voice)

1963
13 Assassins

as Kujuro Hirayama

1963
Miren

as Okazaki

1963
Tale of Army Brutality

as Kameoka, Zenji

1963
Life of a Flower

as Tada Ichiro

1963
High and Low

as Third Creditor

1963
1962
Four Sisters

as Michiharu Mitsumine

1962
1962
Tokyo Bay

as Noboru Sumikawa

1962
Gorath

as Murata - Secretary of Space

1962
1961
Yojimbo

as Kuma

1961
Zero Focus

as Sotaro Uhara

1961
Blind Devotion

as Denroku

1960
1960
The Bad Sleep Well

as Contract Officer Shirai

1960
Intimidation

as Matakichi Nakaike

1960
The Lost Alibi

as Okudaira

1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

as Yang Sanyuan

1959
My Second Brother

as Goro Mitamura

1959
The Wild Reporter

as Ryu Konei

1958
Crimson Wings

as Tetsuji Mizutani

1958
Endless Desire

as Pharmacist

1958
Drunken Ghost

as Daigorô

1958
1958
The Ballad of Narayama

as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)

1958
Stolen Desire

as Kanji Takada

1957
But the Flesh is Weak

as Acupressurist

1957
1956
Frankie the Milkman

as Tax Collector

1956
Fountainhead

as Kasuya

1956
1955
1954
The Street Without Sun

as Extraordinary detective

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