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Wikipedia / Yoshio Inaba

was a Japanese actor best known for his role as Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. 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)

  • Seven Samurai (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)

  • Arashi (1956) - Detective of the special political police

  • Mitsu-kubi-tou (1956) - Shōshichi Kitō

  • Throne of Blood (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

  • Silence (1971) - Prisoner official

  • Shinobu-ito (1973)

  • Yajū gari (1973) - Onimaru

  • Kaseki (1974)

  • Karei-naru Ichizoku (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 (1978) - Kihei

  • Blue Christmas (1978)

  • The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) - Ijichi Kōsuke

  • Willful Murder (1981) - Horii

  • Matagi (1982) - Kokichi Suzuki

  • The Challenge (1982) - Instructor

  • Battle Anthem (1983) - Kamimura

  • Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō (1983) - Shūji Masutani

  • Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta (1983) - Kenzo Tashiro

  • Yōkirō (1983)

  • Kita no hotaru (1984) - Bessho (final film role)

Television

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