Minoru Chiaki
Birthday: 1917-04-28 | Place of Birth: Hokkaido, JapanFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Minoru Chiaki (千秋 実 Chiaki Minoru) 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 and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. Ironically, in real life he turned out to be the last of the seven actors to die. 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Heihachi Hayashida
as Fuyukichi Takano
as Shimizu
as The Ship-master
as Kitao Momose
as Junichi Fujii
as Ebina Ginpei
as Jinzo Takesue
as Kakurai Yosuke
as Yukimura Sanada
