Akitake Kōno
- Acting
- October 8, 1911 · Nagasaki, Japan
- March 17, 1978
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
Filmography
- Miyamoto Musashi · Kimura Sukekuro
- The Viper Brothers · Kingoro The Tattoo Master
- Okatsu the Fugitive
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
- Broken Swords
- Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman · Yasuke
- Farewell, My Beloved
- Witness of Hiroshima
- Traveling in Party
- Heiji, the Detective
- Invitation to Jail
- A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
- Three Gamblers · Toyomatsu Inoue
- Nerves for Victory
- You and I
- Japan's Most Chivalrous · Gennosuke Shioya
- Flame and the Code · Sadamitsu Gonda
- Hi No Taiko
- King of the Highway
- Adventures of Zatoichi · Intendant Gorota Kajima
- The Scarlet Camellia
- The Shape of Night
- Ocean Floor Crime #1
- Ken · Kiuchi
- The Lord's spy
- Tange Sazen
- Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
- Castle of Owls
- Tokyo Untouchable: Escape · Katagiri
- Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
- Fearful Witch
- Umineko ga tonde
- Hibari's Tale of Pathos
- Mid-August Commotion · Commander of Eastern Army Yamanaka
- Zankokuna tsuki
- Mother Country
- The Escape
- Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
- The Conspirator
- Restoration Fire · Heikichi
- Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
- Kanbi no san-tō shain · Division chief Sawamura
- Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery · Cho
- Shiroi minamikaze
- A Fishwife's Tale
- The Harbor Lights
- Castle of Flames
- Challenge Beneath the Waves
- The Last Trump Card · Seigo Nakatsuka
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
- Ninja Assassins
- Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
- The Man of Seven Faces · 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 Loves · Okada
- Sword of Vision · Okubo Hikozaemon
- Night of the Suspicions
- Tsuma no kunshō
- A Dead Drifter
- Souls in the Moonlight III
- Happily Tied to the Road · Sanemon
- The Hidden Treasure
- The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
- The Big Scoop: The Third Woman
- The Bastards of Lawless Town
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love · Kôno Taii
- The Outsiders · Doctor Kimura
- Points and Lines
- I Want to Be a Shellfish
- The Envoy
- Midair Circus
- Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
- The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi · Furutaka Shuntaro
- おばこ船頭さん
- 死の壁の脱出 · Azuma