Acting
Akitake Kōno
Born 1911-10-08
Nagasaki, Japan
Department: Acting
Biography
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. 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.
Known For
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Sansho the Bailiff
1954
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
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Sanshiro Sugata
1943
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1952
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
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Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
1945
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The Most Beautiful
1944
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Adventures of Zatoichi
1964
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
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Taira Clan Saga
1955
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (158 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Miyamoto Musashi | Kimura Sukekuro | Movie | 1973 |
 | The Viper Brothers | Kingoro The Tattoo Master | Movie | 1971 |
 | Okatsu the Fugitive | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | Broken Swords | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman | Yasuke | Movie | 1969 |
 | Farewell, My Beloved | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | Traveling in Party | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | Heiji, the Detective | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | Invitation to Jail | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | Three Gamblers | Toyomatsu Inoue | Movie | 1967 |
 | Nerves for Victory | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1966 |
 | You and I | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1966 |
 | Japan's Most Chivalrous | Gennosuke Shioya | Movie | 1966 |
 | Flame and the Code | Sadamitsu Gonda | Movie | 1966 |
 | Hi No Taiko | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1966 |
 | King of the Highway | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1965 |
 | Adventures of Zatoichi | Intendant Gorota Kajima | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Scarlet Camellia | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Shape of Night | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
 | Ocean Floor Crime #1 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
 | Ken | Kiuchi | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Lord's spy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
 | Tange Sazen | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Castle of Owls | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Tokyo Untouchable: Escape | Katagiri | Movie | 1963 |
 | Kizu-darake no futeki-sha | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Fearful Witch | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Umineko ga tonde | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
| Hibari's Tale of Pathos | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 | |
 | Mid-August Commotion | Commander of Eastern Army Yamanaka | Movie | 1962 |
 | Zankokuna tsuki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Mother Country | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Escape | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Conspirator | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | Restoration Fire | Heikichi | Movie | 1961 |
 | Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | Kanbi no san-tō shain | Division chief Sawamura | Movie | 1961 |
 | Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery | Cho | Movie | 1961 |
 | Shiroi minamikaze | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | A Fishwife's Tale | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Harbor Lights | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | Castle of Flames | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Challenge Beneath the Waves | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Last Trump Card | Seigo Nakatsuka | Movie | 1960 |
 | Hunting Opium-Eaters | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Ninja Assassins | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Man of Seven Faces | Jukichi Arao | Movie | 1960 |
 | One Passed Through Hell | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Kuroshio hibun: Jigoku no hyakuman ryō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | White Cliffs | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Great Road | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Ayausgî G-Man - ânkoku gai no yagû | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Police Precinct Part 12 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | When a Woman Loves | Okada | Movie | 1960 |
 | Sword of Vision | Okubo Hikozaemon | Movie | 1959 |
 | Night of the Suspicions | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | A Dead Drifter | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | Souls in the Moonlight III | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | Happily Tied to the Road | Sanemon | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Hidden Treasure | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Big Scoop: The Third Woman | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Bastards of Lawless Town | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | Kôno Taii | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Outsiders | Doctor Kimura | Movie | 1958 |
 | Points and Lines | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | I Want to Be a Shellfish | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Envoy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Midair Circus | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi | Furutaka Shuntaro | Movie | 1958 |
 | おばこ船頭さん | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | 死の壁の脱出 | Azuma | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Gion Tempest | Sakakibara | Movie | 1958 |
 | Souls in the Moonlight II | Momozo Zenriki | Movie | 1958 |
 | Wind, Woman and Road | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Samurai Nippon | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | Small Rats of the Edo Town | Tôzô | Movie | 1957 |
 | The Temptress and the Monk | Medicine seller | Movie | 1957 |
 | A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era | Matabei | Movie | 1957 |
 | Dotanba | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Flesh Smuggling | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Kobushi dakedenki kettō jigoku | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
| Kobushidake denki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 | |
 | Kobushidake denki: Kogane jigoku | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Satan's Town | Sasaki | Movie | 1956 |
| 快傑耶茶坊 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 | |
 | Love is Lost | Yoshizo | Movie | 1956 |
 | Cell No. 8 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Policeman's Diary, Part 2 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Ejima and Ikushima | 奥山好竹院 | Movie | 1955 |
 | The Samurai of Edo | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Taira Clan Saga | Heiroku | Movie | 1955 |
 | 振袖釼法 | 大導寺平馬 | Movie | 1955 |
 | The Wolves | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | The Dancer and Two Warriors | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Six Assassins | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Sisters | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Last Women | Makimura | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Black Current | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Story of Shunkin | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Sansho the Bailiff | Taro | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Outlaw | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Hana no shôgai | 多田一郎 | Movie | 1953 |
 | Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha | 是枝七郎左衛門 | Movie | 1953 |
 | The Cannery Boat | Shibaura | Movie | 1953 |
 | Shunsetsu no mon | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
| Seki no yatappe | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 | |
 | Hiren tsubaki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
| Coming Up of Kodokan | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 | |
 | Tower of Lilies | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Chronicle of the Bulbul | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan | Junji Yoshida | Movie | 1952 |
 | The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail | Ise | Movie | 1952 |
| お洒落狂女 | Togawa Kankyo | Movie | 1952 | |
 | Castle of Carnage | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | 治郎吉格子 | 久六 | Movie | 1952 |
 | Kōruisō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 |
 | Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 |
 | Lantern Under a Full Moon | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 |
| Kaikyo no same | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 | |
 | Listen to the Voices of the Sea | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 |
 | Kazanmyaku | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 |
 | Till We Meet Again | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 |
 | Town of Violence | Enomoto | Movie | 1950 |
 | Koga Manshion | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 |
| Chobei the Rogue | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 | |
 | Koi rōka | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 |
 | Lady From Hell | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 |
 | My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain | Goro Kitami | Movie | 1948 |
 | Actress | Haruyoshi Kobayashi | Movie | 1947 |
 | Snow Trail | Honda | Movie | 1947 |
 | No Regrets for Our Youth | Itokawa | Movie | 1946 |
 | As Long as I Live | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1946 |
 | An Enemy of the People | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1946 |
 | Hinoki Butai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1946 |
 | Three Women of the North | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1945 |
 | A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo | Kazuma Hochino | Movie | 1945 |
 | Duel at Yagyu Valley | Shinohara Samanosuke | Movie | 1945 |
 | Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two | Genzaburo Higaki | Movie | 1945 |
 | Battle Troop | Murakami | Movie | 1944 |
 | Four Marriages | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1944 |
 | The Most Beautiful | Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited) | Movie | 1944 |
 | Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1943 |
| Military Song of the Morning Mist | Maruge | Movie | 1943 | |
 | Sanshiro Sugata | Yoshima Dan | Movie | 1943 |
 | Kantaro of Ina | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1943 |
 | Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1937 |