Minoru Chiaki

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).

Contents

• Film
• Television
• Honours
• References

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

Sekigahara (1981) - as Yamauchi Kazutoyo

Honours

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