Isao Kimura [20830] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.4301 Birthplace: Senda, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Birthday: 1923-06-22 Deathday: 1981-07-04 Age: 58 years Movies: 91 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isao Kimura (木村 功 Kimura Isao), also known as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog (1949) as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable collaboration with Kurosawa was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai, Katsushiro. During his career he also appeared in several films directed by Mikio Naruse as well as appearing in the famous Lone Wolf and Cub film series. In addition to a film career spanning almost thirty years, Kimura founded and directed an acting company which ultimately went bankrupt. He died of esophageal cancer at 57 years old. Akira Kurosawa: It Is W2002-10-25 Invitation from the Bea1978-04-08 My Brother1976-12-25 Pastoral: To Die in the1974-12-28 Lone Wolf and Cub: Whit1974-04-24 Confessions Among Actre1971-11-17 Pleasure Resort Troubad1970-05-30 Fill the Cup with Blood1969-10-08 Sky Scraper!1969-05-14 Where did Sharaku go?1968-08-22 Black Lizard1968-08-14 Secret Information1968-05-14 Affair in the Snow1968-01-31 Impasse1967-12-01 Journey1967-11-12 Rusty Pendant1967-09-14 The Affair1967-05-13 Sazen Tange and The Sec1966-05-25 Conquest1965-11-21 Miyamoto Musashi V: Mus1965-09-04 Snow Country1965-04-10 Cruel Story of the Shog1964-12-12 The Shape of Night1964-11-01 Assassination1964-07-04 Miyamoto Musashi: The D1964-01-01 Yakuza of Seki1963-11-20 Miyamoto Musashi: Birth1963-08-14 Cases of Umon:Ａ Woman1963-06-30 Bloody Record of the Sh1963-05-12 Bushido: The Cruel Code1963-04-28 High and Low1963-03-01 Miyamoto Musashi: Showd1962-11-17 Four Sisters1962-07-01 The Thinking Leaf1962-05-16 Our Marriage1962-03-18 Knightly Advice1962-01-31 The Temple of Wild Gees1962-01-21 Nippon no obaachan1962-01-03 Hokkaido, My Love1962-01-01 The Eighth Enemy1961-12-15 City1961-10-14 The Prickly-Mouthed Gei1961-08-05 Young Lord Yakuza1961-06-11 Miyamoto Musashi1961-05-27 拳銃野郎に御用1961-02-26 The Stragglers1960-10-05 Hero of the Red Light D1960-09-03 White Cliffs1960-04-05 Tokyo Detective Girl1959-09-23 Police Precinct: Nothin1959-09-15 Hahakogusa1959-04-22 The Woman and the Pirat1959-04-01 Summer Clouds1958-09-02 Beyond the Seasonal Win1958-06-10 Little Peach1958-05-13 Akutoku1958-02-19 The Story of Pure Love1957-10-15 Showdown in Blood1957-08-28 Price of Beauty1957-03-13 Rice1957-03-04 Throne of Blood1957-01-15 Tengoku wa doko da1956-04-23 Avalanche1956-03-22 I Saw the Killer1956-01-29 Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire1955-10-05 Yukiko1955-08-03 Beautiful Days1955-05-25 Ofukuro1955-04-10 The Sacrifice of the Hu1955-01-09 A Billionaire1954-11-22 The Valley Between Love1954-09-21 Student Double Suicide1954-07-27 Cape Ashizuri1954-05-18 Seven Samurai1954-04-26 The End of a Day1954-02-03 At the End of the Cloud1953-06-09 Mr. Pu1953-04-15 A Lonely Woman in a Lon1953-02-20 Vacuum Zone1952-12-10 Ikiru1952-10-09 Violence1952-08-25 The Yamabiko School1952-05-01 Sekidô matsuri1951-12-07 Dancing Girl1951-08-17 Still I Live On1951-07-04 Weeping Doll1951-05-19 Elegy1951-02-22 Beyond Love and Hate1951-01-11 The Angry Street1950-05-14 Stray Dog1949-10-17 The Love of the Actress1947-08-16