Minoru Chiaki
{{short description|Japanese actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Minoru Chiaki
| native_name = 千秋 実
| image = Minoru Chiaki (crop) - from Rashomon (1950) Press Photo of Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, and Takashi Shimura.jpg
| caption = Chiaki in a press photo from Rashomon (1950)
| birth_name = Katsuji Sasaki
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|4|28|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Onnenai, Nakagawa, Kamikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|11|1|1917|7|30|mf=y}}
| death_place = Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
| occupation = Actor
| spouse = Fumie Sasaki
| children = Katsuhiko Sasaki
| website =
| footnotes =
| yearsactive = 1949–1999
}}
{{nihongo|Minoru Chiaki|千秋 実|Chiaki Minoru|April 28, 1917 – November 1, 1999|lead=yes}} was a Japanese actor who appeared in eleven of Akira Kurosawa's films, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress. He was also one of Kon Ichikawa's favorite actors.{{cite web |url= https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%8D%83%E7%A7%8B%20%E5%AE%9F-1649551|title=千秋 実|accessdate=2021-01-05|language=Japanese|publisher=kotobank}}
He attended, but did not graduate from, Chuo University. Later in his career, he appeared as a secondary actor in many Toei films. In 1986, he won the Best Actor at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony for his performance in Gray Sunset (1985).{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202892/awards|title=Awards for Hana ichimonme (1985)|accessdate=2009-05-05|language=Japanese|publisher=Internet Movie Database}}
He died of cardiac and pulmonary failure at age 82. His son Katsuhiko Sasaki is also an actor.
Filmography
=Film=
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- Stray Dog (1949) – Girlie Show director
- Rashōmon (1950) – Priest
- Nanairo no hana (1950) – Tahei Izumi
- Koi no Oranda-zaka (1951) – Suekichi
- The Idiot (1951) – Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
- Araki Mataemon: Kettô kagiya no tsuji (1952)
- Mōjū tsukai no shōjo (1952)
- Bijo to touzoku (1952) – Takeichi no Takamaru
- Kyô wa kaisha no gekkyûbi (1952) – Chief of General Affairs
- Ikiru (1952) – Noguchi
- Mogura yokochô (1953)
- Seven Samurai (1954) – Heihachi Hayashida, one of the samurai
- Shunkin monogatari (1954) – Teizo
- Kakute yume ari (1954) – Sensuke Nasu
- Saizansu nitôryû (1954) – Kojirô Sasaki / Daijirô – His son / Danjûrô – Travelling actor
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955) – Kobayashi
- Ryanko no Yatarô (1955) – Gozematsu
- Kaettekita wakadan'na (1955) – Igarashi
- I Live in Fear (1955) – Jiro Nakajima
- Jirochô yûkyôden: amagi garasu (1955)
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) – Sasuke the boatman
- Kyûketsu-ga (1956) – Sango Kawase
- A Wife's Heart (1956) – Zenichi
- Narazu-mono (1956) – Sobei
- Gendai no yokubô (1956) – Mikami
- Oshidori no mon (1956)
- Oshaberi shacho (1957)
- Throne Of Blood (1957) – Yoshiaki Miki
- Ujô (1957) - Kenkichi Tanabe
- Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku (1957) – Motohashi – Drug Salesman
- Hikage no musume (1957)
- Tôhoku no zunmu-tachi (1957) – Tasuke
- The Lower Depths (1957) – Tonosama – the former Samurai
- Hadairo no tsuki (1957) – Umekichi Ishikura
- Ninjutsu suikoden inazuma kotengu (1958)
- Futari dake no hashi (1958) – Kaikichi Ishida
- Anzukko (1958) – Saburo Yoshida
- Uguisu-jô no hanayome (1958)
- Hana no bojô (1958) – Fukuzô Yanami
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) – Tahei
- Oshaberi okusan (1959)
- Sengoku gunto-den (1959) – Jibu
- Naniwa no koi no monogatari (1959)
- Anyakôro (1959) – Nobuyuki Tokito
- The Human Condition (1959) – Onodera Heichô
- Sâtsu rarete tama ruka (I) (1960)
- Mito Komon 3: All Star Version (1960)
- Case of a Young Lord 8 (1960) – Sasajima Toshizo
- Shinran (1960) – Seizenbo
- Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (1960) – Jôsuke
- Shirakoya Komako (1960) – Matashirô
- Zoku shinran (1960)
- Yatarô gasa (1960) – Kichitaro
- Gen to fudômyô-ô (1961)
- Hadakakko (1961) – Sandwich man
- Ashita aru kagiri (1962)
- The Inheritance (1962) - Junichi Fujii
- Amakusa Shirô Tokisada (1962) – Sôho Tanaka
- Love Under the Crucifix
- Chiisakobe (1962) – Dairoku
- Kigeki: Detatoko shôbu – 'Chinjarara monogatari' yori (1962) – Tarô Yamada
- Hibari Chiemi no Yaji Kita Dochu (1963)
- Hibari Chiemi no oshidori senryô gasa (1963)
- High and Low (1963) – Journalist
- Uogashi no sempû musume (1963)
- Gobanchô yûgirirô (1963) – Takematsu
- Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963) – Yukimura Sanada
- Rojingai no kaoyaku (1963) – Fujimura Genzaemon
- The Body (1964) – Sasaki
- Samé (1964) – Shirosa
- Kono sora no aru kagiri (1964) – Ryûtarô Nogami
- Taking The Castle (1965) – Sanai
- Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan (1965) – Nakagawa (episode 1)
- Zero faita dai kûsen (1966)
- The Face of Another (1966) – Apartment Superintendent
- Lake of Tears (1966) – Kidayu Momose
- Hatamoto yakuza (1966)
- Ai no Sanka (1967) – The Ship-master
- Sei no kigen (1967) – Girl's father
- Nippon ichi no danzetsu otoko (1969) – Shimizu
- Yoru no isoginchaku (1970) – Pastor
- Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974) – Planter
- Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e (1977)
- Tokugawa ichizoku no houkai (1980)
- Gray Sunset (Hana Ichimonme) (1985) – Fuyukichi Takano
- Don Matsugorô no daibôken (1987) – Amenomori Seikai (final film role)
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=Television=
- Kunitori Monogatari (1973) – Oda Nobuhide
- Edo no Kaze (1975)
- Sekigahara (1981) – Yamauchi Kazutoyo
Honours
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|id=0156928|name=Minoru Chiaki}}
- {{jmdb name|id=0230610|name=Minoru Chiaki}}
{{Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor}}
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Category:Japanese male film actors