Kinya Kitaoji

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

Movies

130

Born: February 23, 1943
From: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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Biography

Early life: He was born in Kyoto, son of jidaigeki film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ⅱ in Tokyo. Acting career: Kin'ya made his debut with his father in the 1956 Toei film Oyakodaka in the role of Katsu Kaishū. He is a contemporary of, and was taken to be a rival of, Hiroki Matsukata, who was also the son of a famous actor (Jūshirō Konoe). In 1964, Kin'ya made his first appearance on stage in Cyrano de Bergerac. The 1960s and 1970s saw him in many contemporary roles. He appeared in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as well as Karei naru Ichizoku. The title role in the 1975 film Takehisa Yumeji was his. On television, Kitaōji portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in the Nippon Television show of the same name. A major historical role was Sakamoto Ryōma in the year-long prime-time NHK Taiga drama Ryōma ga Yuku (1968). He landed the title role in the long-running cop show Zenigata Heiji, set in the Edo period. In the 1985 twelve-hour New Year special Fūun Yagyū Bugeichō, he played Yagyū Jūbei, and in the following year's special, he portrayed both Tokugawa Yoshimune and Yagyū Shinrokurō. The role of another shogun fell to him in the following new year as TV Tokyo tapped him to play Tokugawa Iemitsu. Kin'ya returned to NHK for the 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune as Date Terumune, father of title character Date Masamune. Another role he took had been created by his father. Saotome Mondonosuke was the title character in the series Gozonji! Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko. It ran from 1988 to 1994 on TV Asahi. His father, Ichikawa Utaemon, had appeared in numerous films as Mondonosuke. Kin'ya reprised the part of Miyamoto Musashi in the 1990 New Year's special. Toshirō Mifune had portrayed Musashi in the earlier film, also based on the Eiji Yoshikawa story, that had won an Academy Award. He returned to the New Year's special in 1996, again as the famous swordsman, in Tokugawa Kengōden Sore kara no Musashi. His first portrayal of Ōishi Kuranosuke was in the 1996 Chūshingura. He took up the role again in 2004 for the NHK Saigo no Chūshingura and in 2007, in the New Year special Chūshingura Yōzei-in no Inbō. Other historical roles from the Sengoku period include Azai Nagamasa, Saitō Dōsan, and Yamamoto Kansuke. In addition to historical parts, he appeared in fictional series. His portrayal of Ogami Ittō in the Lone Wolf and Cub ( Kozure 2) Which was a series for Asahi TV in Japan is representative of these appearances. In 2008, Kitaōji revisited the role of Katsu Kaishū in the Taiga drama Atsuhime. He had portrayed Katsu in his 1956 debut. He won the award for best actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Fire Festival and Haru no kane. Kitaōji played one of the lead roles in Hideo Nakata's psychological thriller film The Incite Mill. In recent times, Kitaōji voices the Hokkaido-inu character of "Father" in SoftBank Mobile's White Family advertising campaign.

Works

130 films

One Piece Film: GOLD

20167.2

Spring Bell

19857.3

The Peking Man

19975.0

THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY

20236.7

Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

196110.0

Law in Ghost Island

19616.0

Will to Conquer

1970

Asura

20127.3

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

1993

Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings

20163.1

Sakurada Gate Incident

20107.4

Future War 198X

19826.0

The Orphan Brother

19616.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

19737.3

The Incite Mill

20105.6

Mount Hakkoda

19776.6

Whistleblower

20198.0

Men and War III: The Final Chapter

19736.1

The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –

20206.6

Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack

197510.0

The Day the Sun Rose

19688.0

三屋清左衛門残日録完結篇

201710.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

19747.2

Legal High SP

20138.0

Zero

19846.1

Wolves, Pigs & Men

19648.2

Lake of Illusions

19824.0

The Highest Honour

19826.6

Gambling Den Heist

19757.3

The Corporation

19763.7

The Story of a Man Among Men

19846.0

Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke

2016

The Mysterious Lightning Beauty

1990

The Second Is a Christian

19856.0

Winter's Flower

19786.3

三屋清左衛門残日録新たなしあわせ

202010.0

Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2

19938.0

One Day at Summer's End

19686.5

Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

19658.4

三屋清左衛門残日録

201610.0

Glowing Autumn

19788.0

The Mansion of Intrigue

1957

Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy

1993

The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody

1986

The Blossom and the Sword

19737.7

Abandoned

19818.0

I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore

20123.5

Fire Festival

19855.7

Sensei

19898.0

Castle of Sand

20198.7

The Navy

1963

Rainbow Bridge

19938.0

Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke

20108.5

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

19805.5

Shadow Over Fuji

19578.0

Kukai

19849.5

Keepers of Order

19625.0

淋しい狩人

2013

The Last Revenge

20117.0

Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

20145.8

Rise, Fair Sun

197310.0

Father of the Kamikaze

1974

Eternal First Love

20106.7

The Beauty in the Black Mask

1987

The Beauty of the Sundial Mansion

1988

Yume-Chiyo

19858.0

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

19696.9

The Phantom Beauty of Kobe Rokko

1989

Fine Man

19618.0

The Notorious Bored Samurai 2

1988

The Acrobats of Death

19595.8

Shimane Prison Riot

19756.5

がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～

2018

53 Stages of Action

1963

Knightly Advice

19627.0

A Revengeful Raid

19625.8

Warlord of the Underworld

1998

Dynamite Don-Don

19787.8

Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy

19596.0

さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル　塩屋岬いわき殺人事件

2022

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

197610.0

Monument to Holy Service

19788.0

Virtue in Spades

1956

Tsugaru zessho

19698.0

Detective Heiji

1990

Tokaido Fullhouse

19637.0

Shag

19787.5

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

19747.0

南十字星

1982

Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken

2024

三屋清左衛門残日録三十年ぶりの再会

201810.0

Avenging Father

19569.0

Case 17

2016

Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute

19585.5

The Alaska Story

19778.0

Dohten

1991

Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return

1960

A Woman Called En

1971

The Notorious Bored Samurai

198810.0

Shadow Conspirator

1982

The Beauty in the Red Riding Outfit

1987

Cry of the Mountain

19689.0

The Notorious Bored Samurai 3

1989

Kenkaku Shōbai: Onikuma Izakaya

2014

Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan

1992

Whistling Drifter

1961

遊の人‐天下の御意見番大久保彦左衛門‐

1991

Love on the Rainbow

1965

Assassin's Target: Iemitsu

1995

Genkuro Yoshitsune

1962

The Notorious Bored Samurai 9

1994

Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon

1993

Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami

2009

Young Lord and Second Son

1961

Sushi King Goes to New York

20087.0

Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case

2004

Bloody Battle at Dawn

19595.0

Traveling of Two Young Men

19618.0

Sakura Housara

2014

Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki

1995

River of Forever

19679.0

Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru

19758.0

Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha

1962

Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator

19699.0

The Notorious Bored Samurai 6

1991

Kingdom of Youth

1958

The Notorious Bored Samurai 8

1993

The Notorious Bored Samurai 5

1990

The Notorious Bored Samurai 7

1992

Our Silent Love

1967