Kinya Kitaoji

Actor · Born February 23, 1943 · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Biography

Early life: He was born in Kyoto, son of jidaigeki film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ⅱ in Tokyo. Acting career: Kin'ya made his debut with his father in the 1956 Toei film Oyakodaka in the role of Katsu Kaishū. He is a contemporary of, and was taken to be a rival of, Hiroki Matsukata, who was also the son of a famous actor (Jūshirō Konoe). In 1964, Kin'ya made his first appearance on stage in Cyrano de Bergerac. The 1960s and 1970s saw him in many contemporary roles. He appeared in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as well as Karei naru Ichizoku. The title role in the 1975 film Takehisa Yumeji was his. On television, Kitaōji portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in the Nippon Television show of the same name. A major historical role was Sakamoto Ryōma in the year-long prime-time NHK Taiga drama Ryōma ga Yuku (1968). He landed the title role in the long-running cop show Zenigata Heiji, set in the Edo period. In the 1985 twelve-hour New Year special Fūun Yagyū Bugeichō, he played Yagyū Jūbei, and in the following year's special, he portrayed both Tokugawa Yoshimune and Yagyū Shinrokurō. The role of another shogun fell to him in the following new year as TV Tokyo tapped him to play Tokugawa Iemitsu. Kin'ya returned to NHK for the 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune as Date Terumune, father of title character Date Masamune. Another role he took had been created by his father. Saotome Mondonosuke was the title character in the series Gozonji! Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko. It ran from 1988 to 1994 on TV Asahi. His father, Ichikawa Utaemon, had appeared in numerous films as Mondonosuke. Kin'ya reprised the part of Miyamoto Musashi in the 1990 New Year's special. Toshirō Mifune had portrayed Musashi in the earlier film, also based on the Eiji Yoshikawa story, that had won an Academy Award. He returned to the New Year's special in 1996, again as the famous swordsman, in Tokugawa Kengōden Sore kara no Musashi. His first portrayal of Ōishi Kuranosuke was in the 1996 Chūshingura. He took up the role again in 2004 for the NHK Saigo no Chūshingura and in 2007, in the New Year special Chūshingura Yōzei-in no Inbō. Other historical roles from the Sengoku period include Azai Nagamasa, Saitō Dōsan, and Yamamoto Kansuke. In addition to historical parts, he appeared in fictional series. His portrayal of Ogami Ittō in the Lone Wolf and Cub ( Kozure 2) Which was a series for Asahi TV in Japan is representative of these appearances. In 2008, Kitaōji revisited the role of Katsu Kaishū in the Taiga drama Atsuhime. He had portrayed Katsu in his 1956 debut. He won the award for best actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Fire Festival and Haru no kane. Kitaōji played one of the lead roles in Hideo Nakata's psychological thriller film The Incite Mill. In recent times, Kitaōji voices the Hokkaido-inu character of "Father" in SoftBank Mobile's White Family advertising campaign.

Acted in 160

2020s

2026
BORDERLESS -72 Hours
Midorikawa Soichiro · 9 episodes
2024
Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken
Movie
Believe: A Bridge to You
Goro Bando · 9 episodes
Alice in Wonderful Kitchen
Gojo Michitaka · 10 episodes
2023
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
TV · 1 Season · Drama · Mystery
THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
Saitō Dōsan
66
2022
さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル　塩屋岬いわき殺人事件
Movie
2021
In His Chart
Itagaki Genzo [Director] · 4 episodes
2020
The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
Raymond Fuu
66
三屋清左衛門残日録新たなしあわせ
Movie
Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
Kyotaro Onda · 11 episodes

2010s

2019
Castle of Sand
Movie
Whistleblower
Ikuo Yakuyama
68
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
Ichiro Onizuka · 21 episodes
2018
がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～
西條征士郎(さいじょうせいしろう)
三屋清左衛門残日録三十年ぶりの再会
Movie
2017
三屋清左衛門残日録完結篇
Mitsuya Seizaemon
Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi
Wataru Enoki · 9 episodes
2016
Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings
Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)
One Piece Film: GOLD
Raise Max (voice)
65
Case 17
Shuichi Itami
Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
香月玄太郎
三屋清左衛門残日録
Mitsuya Seizaemon
Seizaemon Remaining Diary
TV · 9 Seasons · Drama
Fragile
Kaoru Nakaguma · 10 episodes
2015
Seven Detectives
Shuntaro Domoto · 85 episodes
I'm Home
Yozo Ieji · 1 episode
72
2014
Kenkaku Shōbai: Onikuma Izakaya
Movie
Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Movie
Sanbiki no Ossan
清田清一 · 24 episodes
Sakura Housara
Movie
2013
淋しい狩人
Movie
Hanzawa Naoki
Ken Nakanowatari · 20 episodes
84
Legal High SP
Isao Teshigawara
2012
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Yoshihito Tendo · 11 episodes
76
Asura
Monk
68
Breathless Summer
夏目周作 · 11 episodes
Blackboard
Akinori Shioda, Shioda Akinori · 1 episode
Man of Destiny
Keisaku Sahashi · 10 episodes
I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore
Hanazono Shugoro
2011
The Last Revenge
Tesshu Yamaoka
Princess Go
Tokugawa Ieyasu · 46 episodes
2010
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
Movie
The Incite Mill
Yoshi Ando
56
Sakurada Gate Incident
Movie
Eternal First Love
Yuichi Makibara
Absolute Zero
Hideo Nagashima · 24 episodes
72

2000s

2009
Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Movie
Triangle
Kuroki Shinzo · 11 episodes
2008
Sushi King Goes to New York
Gengoro
Phantom Assassin
Koyama Genjuro · 9 episodes
Atsuhime
TV · 1 Season · Drama
2007
Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces
Kuwayama Jubei · 1 episode
The Family
Daisuke Manpyo · 10 episodes
76
2005
Magistrate Ooka Echizen
TV
The Story of Dominating Countries
TV
2004
忠臣蔵
TV
2003
さすらい署長風間昭平
TV
2002
Lone Wolf and Cub
Ogami Ittô · 9 episodes
2001
Hojo Tokimune
Sha Kokumei · 49 episodes

1990s

1998
Secret Magistrate Asahina
Asahina Kawachinokami Masakiyo · 10 episodes
Warlord of the Underworld
Jirocho Shimizu
1997
The Peking Man
Kin'ya Kitaôji
1996
SMAP×SMAP
Skit Guest · 2 episodes
Further Tales of Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi · 13 episodes
1995
Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki
Movie
Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
Movie
1993
Rainbow Bridge
Movie
Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
Movie
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Movie
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
Movie · Drama
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Movie
1992
The Diary of Chuji's Travels
Chuji · 1 episode
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Movie
1991
Dohten
Movie
遊の人‐天下の御意見番大久保彦左衛門‐
Movie
1990
Detective Heiji
Heiji Zenigata
The Mysterious Lightning Beauty
Kogoro Akechi
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi · 13 episodes

1980s

1989
The Phantom Beauty of Kobe Rokko
Kogoro Akechi
Sensei
Chairman of the town
Sanada Yukimura
TV
1988
The Beauty of the Sundial Mansion
Kogoro Akechi
1987
The Beauty in the Red Riding Outfit
Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty in the Black Mask
Kogoro Akechi
Masamune Shogun
伊達輝宗 · 50 episodes
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
TV
1986
The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody
Kogoro Akechi
Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches
Genroku Kano (Tokugawa Yoshimune) · 13 episodes
1985
Spring Bell
Rokuheita Narumi
The Second Is a Christian
Eiji
Yume-Chiyo
Movie
Fire Festival
Tatsuo
1984
The Story of a Man Among Men
Movie · Drama · Crime
Zero
Jiro Horikoshi
Kukai
Kukai
1982
Shadow Conspirator
Movie
Future War 198X
Wataru Mikumo (voice)
Lake of Illusions
Nobunaga Oda
The Highest Honour
Major Tachibana
南十字星
Movie
1981
Abandoned
Movie
1980
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Movie