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Kō Nishimura

Name in Native Language: "西村晃" (Japanese/JA)
Actor / Voice Acting In Japan | * 01/25/1923 († 74, 04/29/1997) | Sapporo, Hokkaido (Japan)
Kō Nishimura (西村 晃, Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923 – 29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor. Known in the West primarily for supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp, Nishimura also played leading roles throughout his career. He is sometimes known as Akira Nishimura, as the kanji character 晃 can be translated as either Akira or Kō. The son of biologist and inventor Makoto Nishimura, Nishimura made his film debut in the Shin Saburi film Fusetsu Nijyunen in 1951. He won the Blue Ribbon Awards for best supporting actor in 1964 for Unholy Desire directed by Shohei Imamura. In 1982, he won the Best Actor award in the Mainichi Film Awards for his performances in Matagi. In Japan, Nishimura is well known for playing the role of the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1983 to 199... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Action | Crime

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Awards & Nominations for Kō Nishimura

Medal With Purple Ribbon Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Movies with Kō Nishimura as Actor(160)

as Eiji Tsuburaya1989 The Men Who Made Ultraman
as Makoto Nishimura1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1984 Kukai
as Kentaro Hatanaka1983 A Hunter's Diary
as Heizo Sekiguchi1982 The Old Bear Hunter
as Glass-Eating Mime1979 Down with The Big Boss
as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)1979 Nutcracker Fantasy
as Yasuzo Kariba1979 The Strangling
as Shigetomi Katta1978 Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Sojin Kamiya1978 Love and Faith
as Kahe Shimabara1977 Japan's Don
as Nagaoka Ryokai1976 Manhunt
as Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi1974 Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
as Sentaro Watanuki1974 The Family
as Priest Dokai1973 Lady Snowblood
as Magobei "Snake" Onishi1973 Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
as Tamezo Tsukamoto1973 Tsugaru Folksong
as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi1972 Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
as Kada1970 Play It Cool
as Munekata1969 The Wild Sea
as Yanosuke Hashimoto1969 Second Generation Young Boss
1969 Goyokin
as Makabe1969 Quick-draw Okatsu
as Printer1969 Lady with Seven Faces
as Ex-husband1969 Black Rose Mansion
as Yasuke1968 Snake Woman's Curse
as Nishizato1968 Living Skeleton
as Sosuke Saruya1968 Samaritan Zatoichi
as Banzou1968 The Bride from Hades
as Detective Matoba1968 Black Lizard
as Magobe1967 Samurai Wolf II
as Yasujiro Endo1967 A Killer's Key
as Hanada1967 Classmates
as Uneshiro Suga1967 Zatoichi the Outlaw
as Errant samurai Daijuro1967 Eleven Samurai
as Man1967 Sasayaki no Jō
as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'1966 The Sword of Doom
as Detective Sanada1966 The Pornographers
as Tanzo Koide1966 Rub Out the Past
as Kawanishi1966 The Threat
as Chisaka Hyobu1965 Tale of Ninja Duty
as Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback1965 The Ghost of the Hunchback
as Chief retainer1965 Red Beard
as Staff Officer1965 The Retreat from Kiska
as Sakichi1964 The Scarlet Camellia
as Koichi Takahashi1964 Intentions of Murder
as Hiroshi Asami1964 The Glamorous Ghost
as Mizuno Izumi1964 Warrior of the Wind
as Heiroku1963 Escape from Hell
as Third Creditor1963 High and Low
as Kameoka, Zenji1963 Tale of Army Brutality
as Killer (voice)1963 Doggie March
as Kujuro Hirayama1963 13 Assassins
as Noboru Sumikawa1962 Tokyo Bay
as Murata - Secretary of Space1962 Gorath
as Mokudô Kida1962 The Temple of Wild Geese
as Michiharu Mitsumine1962 Four Sisters
as Kuma1961 Yojimbo
as Sotaro Uhara1961 Zero Focus
as Denroku1961 Blind Devotion
as Yajima1961 Pigs and Battleships
as Contract Officer Shirai1960 The Bad Sleep Well
as Okudaira1960 The Lost Alibi
as Matakichi Nakaike1960 Intimidation
as Goro Mitamura1959 My Second Brother
as Reporter1958 The Seasons of Love
as Pharmacist1958 Endless Desire
as Kanji Takada1958 Stolen Desire
as Tetsuji Mizutani1958 Crimson Wings
as Hikobei1957 The Eagle and the Hawk
as Acupressurist1957 The Flesh Is Weak
as Nakagawa1957 Who's The Real Killer
as Tax Collector1956 Frankie the Milkman
1956 Dotanba
as Kasuya1956 Fountainhead
as Baba1956 The Burmese Harp
as Extraordinary detective1954 The Street Without Sun

TV Shows/Series with Kō Nishimura as Actor(2)

as 沢木忠一郎1980 Niji wo Oru
as Tada Ichiro1963 Life of a Flower

Full Name: Ko Nishimura
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Thursday, 01/25 1923 (January) in Sapporo, Hokkaido (Japan)
Died: Tuesday, 04/29 1997 (April) in Kokubunji (aged: 74)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Educated at: Nihon University
Father: Makoto Nishimura
Other names for Kō Nishimura (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Ko Nishimura"
"西村晃"
"Ко Нисимура"
"にしむら こう" (Kana/Japanese)
Kō Nishimura frequently works together with these people:
Shoichi Ozawa (22x, Actor)
Yoshi Katō (20x, Actor)
Taiji Tonoyama (20x, Actor)
Shôhei Imamura (19x, Crew)
Takeshi Katō (18x, Actor)
Sanae Nakahara (18x, Actress)
Shintarō Katsu (17x, Actor)
Rentaro Mikuni (17x, Actor)
Jun Hamamura (16x, Actor)
Masaru Satō (16x, Crew)
Nobuo Kaneko (15x, Actor)
Hiroyuki Nagato (2x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:272179, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024