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

Film

• 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 Lower Depths (Kurosawa) (1957) - as the ex-samurai
• 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

Television

• Kunitori Monogatari (1973) - as Oda Nobuhide

Honours

• Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1989)

External links

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