Kazuo Kitamura
Born(1927-03-11)11 March 1927
Tokyo, Japan
Died6 May 2007(2007-05-06) (aged 80)
OccupationActor
Years active1950–2007

Kazuo Kitamura (北村 和夫, Kitamura Kazuo, 11 March 1927 – 6 May 2007) was a Japanese actor. His son is actor Yukiya Kitamura.[1][2][3] Kitamura met Shōhei Imamura when he was a student of Waseda University and became a close friend so often worked with Imamura.[2][4][5] Kitamura joined Bungakuza theatre company and started his acting career in 1950.[5] In 1953, he made his film debut with An Inlet of Muddy Water directed by Tadashi Imai.[6]

Filmography

Film

  • An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) as Rickshaw man
  • Anyakôro (1959) as Takai
  • Yoru no nagare (1960)
  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) as Kitagô Sôchô
  • Till Tomorow Comes (1962)
  • Wakai hito (1962) as Kenkichi Eguchi
  • High and Low (1963) as Third journalist
  • The Insect Woman (1963) as Chuji Matsuki
  • Yearning (1964) as Morizono
  • Kaze no Bushi (1964) as Yôroku Nabari
  • Otoko girai (1964) as Kingo Ashida
  • Nihiki no mesu inu (1964) as Aoyama
  • The Scent of Incense (1964) as Keisuke
  • Unholy Desire (1964) as Seiichiro Takahashi
  • Akujo (1964) as Kamekichi Enjo
  • Ryojin nikki (1964) as Kentaro Hatanaka - a lawyer
  • Kwaidan (1965) as Taira no Tomomori (segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi")
  • Himo (1965) as Akiko's husband
  • Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan (1965) as Shinsuke (episode 3)
  • A Chain of Islands (1965) as Narrator (voice)
  • Zettai tasu (1965)
  • Tobo (1965)
  • Honkon no shiroibara (1965) as Hiroshi Aoki
  • House of Terrors (Kaidan semushi otoko, 1965) as Dr. Keisuke Munakata the Uncle of Yoshie
  • The Pornographers (1966) as Doctor
  • Danryû (1966) as Dr. Hashizume
  • Eiko eno chôsen (1966)
  • Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief
  • Bakuha 3-byô mae (1967) as Sugiyama
  • Honô to onna (1967) as Fujikida
  • Dai akutô (1968) as Prosecutor Okano
  • Neon taiheiki (1968)
  • Nippon gerira jidai (1968) as Director of Beheiron
  • Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) as Doctor Kariya
  • Yami o saku ippatsu (1968)
  • A Woman and the Beancurd Soup (1968)
  • Jotai (1969) as Lawyer
  • Showa onna jingi (1969)
  • Hitorikko (1969)
  • The Militarists (1970) as Yamanaka (uncredited)
  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) as Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka
  • Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishôgai (1971)
  • Saredowareraga bibi yori wakarenôta (1971)
  • Summer Soldiers (1972) as Tachikawa
  • Koi no natsu (1972)
  • Aa koe naki tomo (1972) as Momose
  • Fureai (1974)
  • Kinkanshoku (1975)
  • Inubue (1978) as Ishii Design section manager
  • Never Give Up (1978) as Hikawa
  • Mitsuyaku: Gaimushô kimitsu rôei jiken (1978) as Taichi ishiyama
  • Taro the Dragon Boy (1979) as Niwatori-chouja (voice)
  • Vengeance Is Mine (1979) as Deike
  • Honjitsu tadaima tanjô (1979)
  • White Love (1979) as Yoichiro Yamashita
  • Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979) as Tanaka
  • Nippon keishichô no haji to iwareta futari: keiji chindôchû (1980)
  • Eijanaika (1981) as Koide Yamato no Kami
  • Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) as Hamaguchi
  • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1982) as Rampu no mamono (voice)
  • Maboroshi no mizuumi (1982) as Onishi
  • Kaikyô (1982)
  • The Geisha (1983) as Yamaoka
  • Katayoku dake no tenshi (1986)
  • Guriin rekuiemu (1988) as Ryosuke Misawa
  • Kanashii iro yanen (1988) as Daisuke
  • Black Rain (1989) as Shigematsu Shizuma
  • Yume no matsuri (1989) as Doctor
  • Shaso (1989) as Ueno
  • A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) as Tsurumaru
  • Kagerô (1991) as Kosugi
  • Gokudo no onna-tachi: Kiken na kake (1996) as Takuma Sado
  • Tsuribaka nisshi 9 (1997)
  • Nodo jiman (1999) as Kôtarô
  • Nippon no kuroi natsu - Enzai (2001) as Takeo Nagata
  • Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) as Taro
  • 11'09"01 September 11 (2002) as Village Mayor (segment: Japan)
  • Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005) as Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • Henshin (2005) as Hidetaka Doumoto
  • Metasequoia no ki no shita de (2005) as Dr. Tsukada
  • Goya-champuru (2006) as Taizo Suzuki
  • Sinking of Japan (2006) as Minister of Justice
  • Futô fukutsu (2007)
  • Beauty (2008) as Inaji (final film role)

Television

Voice acting

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "俳優・北村有起哉さん　父の当たり役、演じる幸せ". 日経. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 "新撰 芸能人物事典 明治～平成「北村 和夫」の解説". kotobank. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "粋に見えた父・北村和夫を目指して…北村有起哉の役者人生". Flash. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Kazuo Kitamura profile". NHK. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Kazuo Kitamura profile". 文学座. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Kazuo Kitamura profile". kinenote. Retrieved 5 October 2021.


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