1954Winner
Best Performance
Seven Samurai
Minoru Chiaki
Actor
Hokkaido, Japan
April 28, 1917
Biography
Minoru Chiaki (April 28, 1917 - November 1, 1999) 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. 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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1963Winner
Best Performance
High and Low
1952Winner
Best Performance
Ikiru
Career Highlights
1950Highlight
Best Performance
Rashomon
1963Highlight
Best Performance
A House in the Quarter
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Seven Samurai
High and Low
Ikiru