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Kazuo Kitamura

Name in Native Language: "北村和夫" (Japanese/JA)
Actor / Voice Acting In Japan | * 03/11/1927 († 80, 05/06/2007) | Tokyo Prefecture (Japan)
Kazuo Kitamura (北村 和夫, Kitamura Kazuo, 11 March 1927 – 6 May 2007) was a Japanese actor. His son is actor Yukiya Kitamura. Kitamura met Shōhei Imamura when he was a student of Waseda University and became a close friend so often worked with Imamura. Kitamura joined Bungakuza theatre company and started his acting career in 1950. In 1953, he made his film debut with An Inlet of Muddy Water directed by Tadashi Imai. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Shigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother, his wife Shigeko, and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He, his wife, his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the ato ...

Black Rain

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1989 | 3.7/5 | 2h 3min
Drama
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Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take plac ...

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

R

2005 | 3.3/5 | 1h 47min
Action
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A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom. ...

High and Low

Certification unknown

1963 | 4.2/5 | 2h 22min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead ...

Tora! Tora! Tora!

G

1970 | 3.6/5 | 2h 24min
Drama, History, War
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Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt ...

Musashi

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2003 | 4.3/5 | 50min per episode
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Kazuo Kitamura

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Movies with Kazuo Kitamura as Actor(63)

2006 Japan Sinks
as Taizo Suzuki2006 Island of Light
as Hidetaka Doumoto2005 Henshin
as Tokugawa Ieyasu2005 Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
as Takeo Nagata2001 Darkness in the Light
as Taro2001 Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
1997 Free and Easy 9
as himself1995 Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker
1992 Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
as Kosugi1991 Heat Wave
as Tsurumaru1990 Tales of a Golden Geisha
1989 Festival of Dreams
as Shigematsu Shizuma1989 Black Rain
1989 Company Executives
1988 Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
1988 Green Requiem
1983 The Geisha
1982 The Longest Tunnel
as Onishi1982 Lake of Illusions
as Hamaguchi1981 Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Koide1981 Why Not?
1979 Vengeance Is Mine
as Tanaka, the director of the National Police Agency1979 The Man Who Stole the Sun
as Yoichiro Yamashita1979 White Love
as (voice)1979 Taro the Dragon Boy
as Narrator (voice)1977 The Wild Daisy
1975 Solar Eclipse
as Yujiro Aoki1974 Touch of Love
as Tachikawa1972 Summer Soldiers
1972 The Pirates of Buban
1971 Wakare no uta
as Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
1969 The Woman Killer
1969 Vixen
1969 Only Child
1968 Neon taiheiki
1968 Women and Miso Soup
as Engineer Kariya1968 Profound Desires of the Gods
as Attorney Okano1968 The Great Villains
as Fujikida1967 Impasse
as Sugiyama1967 Three Seconds to Zero Hour
as Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief1967 Japan's Longest Day
as Dr. Hashizume1966 Warm Current
as Doctor1966 The Pornographers
1965 Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965 The Soundless Cry
as Narrator (voice)1965 A Chain of Islands
as Aoyama1964 Night Scandal in Japan
1964 Intentions of Murder
as Keisuke1964 The Scent of Incense
as Mr. Morizono, Hisako's husband1964 Yearning
as Kamekichi Enjo1964 Night Scandal
as Kohei Otani1964 Whirlpool of Flesh
as Kentaro Hatanaka1964 The Hunter's Diary
as Taira no Tomomori (segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi")1964 Kwaidan
as Yôroku Nabari1964 Warrior of the Wind
as Chuji1963 The Insect Woman
1963 Ukyunosuke on Patrol
as Third Reporter1963 High and Low
as Kitagô Sôchô1961 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water

TV Shows/Series with Kazuo Kitamura as Actor(5)

as Ieyasu Tokugawa2003 Musashi
as Shimada Daishin2001 Churasan
as Shima Sakon1971 Haru no Sakamichi
1964 Akō Rōshi
as Utsuki Kageyoshi1963 Life of a Flower

Full Name: Kazuo Kitamura
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Friday, 03/11 1927 (March) in Tokyo Prefecture (Japan)
Died: Sunday, 05/06 2007 (May) in Shinjuku (aged: 80)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Educated at: Waseda University
Other names for Kazuo Kitamura (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"北村和夫"
"きたむら かずお" (Kana/Japanese)
Kazuo Kitamura frequently works together with these people:
Shôhei Imamura (23x, Crew)
Takeshi Katō (12x, Actor)
Seiji Miyaguchi (8x, Actor)
Shinsaku Himeda (8x, Crew)
Shoichi Ozawa (8x, Actor)
Kei Satō (7x, Actor)
Rentaro Mikuni (7x, Actor)
Kō Nishimura (7x, Actor)
Shigeru Kôyama (7x, Actor)
Hideji Ôtaki (7x, Actor)
Kin Sugai (7x, Actress)
Shikaku Nakamura (3x, Cast)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:126728, Added: 06/28/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024