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Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki

Acting · 1917–1999 · Hokkaido, Japan

IMDb

12 titles in this catalog, 11 of them scored with a median Balasaur Score of 80. The 1950s rate best: median 84 across 6 titles. Minoru Chiaki appears most often alongside Takashi Shimura (6 titles), Akira Kurosawa (5), Toshirō Mifune (5).

Biography

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.

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