was a Japanese

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best known for his role as Gorobei in

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the History of film, history of cinema ...

's ''

Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586 in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a villag ...

''. In addition to his career in film, Inaba was also a prolific theater actor and a member of the prestigious Haiyuza Theatre Company. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.

Filmography

Film

* ''Umi no hanabi'' (1951) * ''Wakare-gumo'' (1951) * ''

'' (1954) - Gorobei Katayama * ''Horafuki tanji'' (1954) - Escaped Prisoner Iwagorō * ' (1955) - Mijagi * '' Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple'' (続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) (1955) * ''Uruwashiki haha'' (1955) - Shigematsu * ''Shujinsen'' (1956) * ''

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'' (1956) - Detective of the special political police * ''Mitsu-kubi-tou'' (1956) - Shōshichi Kitō * ''

Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese epic ''jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' (1606) fr ...

'' (1957) - Third Military Commander * ''Ninjitsu'' (1957) * '' Jun'ai Monogatari'' (1957) - Doctor at Nisseki Hospital * '' Ballad of the Cart'' (1959) - Fujitaro * '' Fires on the Plain'' (1959) * ''Fujimi no otoko'' (1960) * ''Haru no yume'' (1960) - Yamada * ''Matsukawa-Jiken'' (1961) * ''Gokai senryo yari'' (1961) - Shibata * ''Kutsukake Tokijirō'' (1961) - Shōten * ''Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi'' (1962) - Shizuo Iwasaki * ''Woman of Design'' (1962) - Yasuda * '' Destiny's Son'' (1962) - Giichirō Ikebe * '' Harakiri'' (1962) - Jinai Chijiiwa * ''Zoku rokunin shimai'' (1962) * ''Yōsō'' (1963) * ''Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki'' (1964) - Ronin (uncredited) * '' Ken'' (1964) - Seiichiro Kokubun * '' The Scent of Incense - Nibu: Mitsumata no shō'' (1964) * ''The Great Killing'' (1964) * ''Nemuri Kyōshirō: Joyōken'' (1964) - Bizen-ya the Merchant * '' Samurai Assassin'' (1965) - Keijiro Sumita * ''Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Satan'' (1965) - Mizuno * ''Taiheiyō kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka'' (1965) - Tamai * ''Kemonomichi'' (1965) * ''The Guardman: Tokyo yōjimbō'' (1965) - Yoshida * ''Gohiki no shinshi'' (1966) * ''Onna no naka ni iru tanin'' (1966) * ''The Guardman: Tokyo Ninja Butai'' (1966) - Yoshida * ''Hikinige'' (1966) * ''Ichiman sanzennin'' (1966) * ''Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei'' (1967) * ''Chichi to ko: Zoku Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku'' (1967) * ''Nemuri Kyōshirō burai-hikae: Mashō no hada'' (1967) * ''Rengō kantai shirei chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku'' (1968) - Chief of Staff Ugaki * '' Battle of the Japan Sea'' (1969) - Chief of Staff Officer Shimamura * ''Kage no kuruma'' (1970) * ''Wakamono no hata'' (1970) * ''Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71'' (1971) - Yoshitarō Araki * ''

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'' (1971) - Prisoner official * ''Shinobu-ito'' (1973) * ''Yajū gari'' (1973) - Onimaru * '' Kaseki'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1974) - Ichinose Factory's owner * '' Castle of Sand'' (1974) - Search chief clerk * ''Koi wa midori no kaze no naka'' (1974) * ''Shōwa karesusuki'' (1975) * ''Gokumon-tō'' (1977) - Village Mayor Makihei Araki * ''Village of Eight Gravestones'' (1977) - Ochimusha * ''Mitsuyaku: Gaimushō kimitsu rōei jiken'' (1978) - Nakada * ''Kumokiri Nizaemon'' (1978) - Seizō * ''Nihon no don: kanketsuhen'' (1978) - Satomi * ''

Mito Kōmon is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-' ...

'' (1978) - Kihei * '' Blue Christmas'' (1978) * ''

The Battle of Port Arthur is a 1980 Japanese war film directed by Toshio Masuda. The Japanese title "Ni hyaku san kochi" means Hill 203. The film depicts the fiercest battles at Hill 203 in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. Cast * T ...

'' (1980) -

Ijichi Kōsuke Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the First Sino-Japanese War and Chief of Staff of the Japanese Third Army during the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War. His wife was the niece of Marshal Oyama Iwao. Biography I ...

* '' Willful Murder'' (1981) - Horii * ''Matagi'' (1982) - Kokichi Suzuki * '' The Challenge'' (1982) - Instructor * ''Battle Anthem'' (1983) - Kamimura * ''Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō'' (1983) * ''Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta'' (1983) - Kenzo Tashiro * '' Yōkirō'' (1983) * '' Kita no hotaru'' (1984) - Bessho (final film role)

Television

* '' Taikōki'' (1965) as Katō Kiyotada * ''

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'' (1971) as Kajikawa Yoriteru * '' Amigasa Jūbei'' (1974–75) * ''Tōge no Gunzō'' (1982) as Inakichi

References

External links

* * 1920 births 1998 deaths People from Narita, Chiba Male actors from Chiba Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-screen-actor-stub