Occupation Actor Years active 1943-1977 | Name Akitake Kono Role Film actor | |
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Died March 17, 1978, Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Movies Sanshiro Sugata, No Regrets for Our Youth, Sansho the Bailiff, The Men Who Tread on the Tig, Shin Heike Monogatari Similar People Yoshikata Yoda, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Masaichi Nagata, Tadashi Imai, Akira Kurosawa | ||
Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武, Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973.
Career
Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.
References
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