Akitake Kōno
Known for
Acting
Life
1911 – 1978 (aged 66)
Born in
Nagasaki, Japan
Credits
View on IMDb158 acting credits
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
Sansho the Bailiff
31 Mar 1954
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
15 Jan 1959
Sanshiro Sugata
25 Mar 1943
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
24 Apr 1952
No Regrets for Our Youth
29 Oct 1946
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
03 May 1945
The Most Beautiful
13 Apr 1944
Adventures of Zatoichi
30 Dec 1964
Filmography
1973
- Miyamoto Musashias Kimura Sukekuro
1971
- The Viper Brothersas Kingoro The Tattoo Master
1969
1967
1966
- Nerves for Victory
- You and I
- Japan's Most Chivalrousas Gennosuke Shioya
- Flame and the Codeas Sadamitsu Gonda
- Hi No Taiko
1964
- Adventures of Zatoichias Intendant Gorota Kajima
- The Scarlet Camellia
- The Shape of Night
- Ocean Floor Crime #1
- Kenas Kiuchi
- The Lord's spy
1963
1962
1961
1960
- Castle of Flames
- Challenge Beneath the Waves
- The Last Trump Cardas Seigo Nakatsuka
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
- Ninja Assassins
- Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
- The Man of Seven Facesas Jukichi Arao
- One Passed Through Hell
- Kuroshio hibun: Jigoku no hyakuman ryō
- White Cliffs
- The Great Road
- Ayausgî G-Man - ânkoku gai no yagû
- Police Precinct Part 12
- When a Woman Lovesas Okada
1959
1958
- The Outsidersas Doctor Kimura
- Points and Lines
- I Want to Be a Shellfish
- The Envoy
- Midair Circus
- Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
- The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumias Furutaka Shuntaro
- おばこ船頭さん
- 死の壁の脱出as Azuma
- The Gion Tempestas Sakakibara
- Souls in the Moonlight IIas Momozo Zenriki
- Wind, Woman and Road
- Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
1957
- Samurai Nippon
- Small Rats of the Edo Townas Tôzô
- The Temptress and the Monkas Medicine seller
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Eraas Matabei
1956
1955
1954
1953
1952
- Chronicle of the Bulbul
- August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japanas Junji Yoshida
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tailas Ise
- お洒落狂女as Togawa Kankyo
- Castle of Carnage
- 治郎吉格子as 久六
1950
1948
- My Love on the Other Side of the Mountainas Goro Kitami
1947
- Actressas Haruyoshi Kobayashi
- Snow Trailas Honda
1945
- Three Women of the North
- A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendoas Kazuma Hochino
- Duel at Yagyu Valleyas Shinohara Samanosuke
- Sanshiro Sugata, Part Twoas Genzaburo Higaki
1944
- Battle Troopas Murakami
- Four Marriages
- The Most Beautifulas Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)