Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki
千秋 実
Born	Katsuji Sasaki (1917-04-28)April 28, 1917 Onnenai, Nakagawa, Kamikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
Died	November 1, 1999(1999-11-01) (aged 82) Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1949 - 1999
Spouse	Fumie Sasaki
Children	Katsuhiko Sasaki

Minoru Chiaki (千秋 実, Chiaki Minoru, April 28, 1917 – November 1, 1999) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. 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).

Filmography

• Stray Dog (1949) - as Girlie Show director
• Rashōmon (1950) - as priest
• The Idiot (1951) - as the secretary Mutsuo Kayama
• Ikiru (1952) - as Noguchi
• Mōjū tsukai no shōjo (1952)
• Seven Samurai (1954) - as Heihachi Hayashida, one of the samurai
• Godzilla Raids Again (1955) - as Kobayashi
• I Live in Fear (1955) - as Jiro Nakajima
• Throne Of Blood (1957) - as Yoshiaki Miki
• The Hidden Fortress (1958) - as Tahei
• The Inheritance (1962) - as Junichi Fujii
• High and Low (1963) - as Journalist
• Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963) - as Yukimura Sanada
• The Face of Another (1966) - as Apartment Superintendent
• Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974) - as the planter
• Gray Sunset (Hana Ichimonme) (1985) - as Fuyukichi Takano

External links

• Minoru Chiaki at IMDb
• Minoru Chiaki at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)