Akitake Kōno
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.
Movies 163
Sansho the Bailiff
as Taro
1954
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kôno Taii
1959
Sanshiro Sugata
as Yoshima Dan
1943
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
as Ise
1952
Snow Trail
as Honda
1947
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Itokawa
1946
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
as Genzaburo Higaki
1945
Taira Clan Saga
as Heiroku
1955
Points and Lines
1958
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Matabei
1957
Adventures of Zatoichi
as Intendant Gorota Kajima
1964
Miyamoto Musashi
as Kimura Sukekuro
1973
Tower of Lilies
1953
The Conspirator
1961
Okatsu the Fugitive
1969
The Most Beautiful
as Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)
1944
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
as Cho
1961
Till We Meet Again
1950
Souls in the Moonlight II
as Momozo Zenriki
1958
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
as Yasuke
1969
The Viper Brothers
as Kingoro The Tattoo Master
1971
Three Gamblers
as Toyomatsu Inoue
1967
Souls in the Moonlight III
1959
The Shape of Night
1964
Police Precinct Part 12
1960
Love is Lost
as Yoshizo
1956
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
1969
Shiroi minamikaze
1961
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
as Junji Yoshida
1952
Traveling in Party
1967
快傑耶茶坊
1956
Nerves for Victory
1966
Ejima and Ikushima
as 奥山好竹院
1955
Four Marriages
1944
An Enemy of the People
1946
Hinoki Butai
1946
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as Kazuma Hochino
1945
The Wolves
1955
Lantern Under a Full Moon
1951
The Man of Seven Faces
as Jukichi Arao
1960
The Scarlet Camellia
1964
Castle of Flames
1960
Fearful Witch
1962
The Harbor Lights
1961
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
Castle of Owls
1963
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
1961
Restoration Fire
as Heikichi
1961
Ken
as Kiuchi
1964
Hunting Opium-Eaters
1960
Satan's Town
as Sasaki
1956
King of the Highway
1965
Witness of Hiroshima
1968
The Samurai of Edo
1955
Town of Violence
as Enomoto
1950
Battle Troop
as Murakami
1944
Three Women of the North
1945
Heiji, the Detective
1967
Mid-August Commotion
as Commander of Eastern Army Yamanaka
1962
Outlaw
1953
Zankokuna tsuki
1962
Night of the Suspicions
1959
Ocean Floor Crime #1
1964
The Black Current
1954
The Story of Shunkin
1954
The Outsiders
as Doctor Kimura
1958
Tange Sazen
1963
Japan's Most Chivalrous
as Gennosuke Shioya
1966
Actress
as Haruyoshi Kobayashi
1947
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
1962
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
治郎吉格子
as 久六
1952
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
1958
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
1954
Koi rōka
1949
The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
as Furutaka Shuntaro
1958
Hiren tsubaki
1953
Castle of Carnage
1952
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
as Goro Kitami
1948
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
1943
When a Woman Loves
as Okada
1960
Wind, Woman and Road
1958
The Lord's spy
1964
Lady From Hell
1949
Mother Country
1962
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
おばこ船頭さん
1958
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
1951
Midair Circus
1958
Farewell, My Beloved
1969
As Long as I Live
1946
Kaikyo no same
1950
Dotanba
1956
Chronicle of the Bulbul
1952
Small Rats of the Edo Town
as Tôzô
1957
Kazanmyaku
1950
The Cannery Boat
as Shibaura
1953
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
as Katagiri
1963
Kuroshio hibun: Jigoku no hyakuman ryō
1960
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
1954
Umineko ga tonde
1962
Ayausgî G-Man - ânkoku gai no yagû
1960
Kobushi dakedenki kettō jigoku
1956
Six Assassins
1955
Hi No Taiko
1966
Coming Up of Kodokan
1953
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1958
Stray Dog
1966
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
1954
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
1937
The Great Road
1960
Kanbi no san-tō shain
as Division chief Sawamura
1961
A Dead Drifter
1959
Kōruisō
1951
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
1954
Cell No. 8
1956
Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
1963
The Temptress and the Monk
as Medicine seller
1957
The Hidden Treasure
1959
Koga Manshion
1949
Seki no yatappe
1953
One Passed Through Hell
1960
お洒落狂女
as Togawa Kankyo
1952
Hana no shôgai
as 多田一郎
1953
White Cliffs
1960
Ninja Assassins
1960
The Big Scoop: The Third Woman
1959
The Bastards of Lawless Town
1959
Broken Swords
1969
Samurai Nippon
1957
The Escape
1962
Flame and the Code
as Sadamitsu Gonda
1966
Challenge Beneath the Waves
1960
死の壁の脱出
as Azuma
1958
Tsuma no kunshō
1959
Sisters
1955
You and I
1966
Duel at Yagyu Valley
as Shinohara Samanosuke
1945
Flesh Smuggling
1956
Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
as 是枝七郎左衛門
1953
Military Song of the Morning Mist
as Maruge
1943
The Gion Tempest
as Sakakibara
1958
Kobushidake denki: Kogane jigoku
1956
The Last Trump Card
as Seigo Nakatsuka
1960
Kobushidake denki
1956
Maboroshi fujin
1949
Kantaro of Ina
1943
振袖釼法
as 大導寺平馬
1955
Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
1958
Invitation to Jail
1967
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959
The Envoy
1958
A Fishwife's Tale
1961
The Dancer and Two Warriors
1955
The Last Women
as Makimura
1954
Chobei the Rogue
1949
San kyōdai no kettō
1960
Happily Tied to the Road
as Sanemon
1959
Hibari's Tale of Pathos
1962
Sword of Vision
as Okubo Hikozaemon
1959