Akitake Kōno


Akitake Kōno was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973.

Career

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.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1943Sanshiro Sugata
1945The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1945Sanshiro Sugata Part II
1946Minshū no Teki
1946No Regrets for Our YouthItokawa
1949Lady from HellTachibana
1950Bōryoku no Machi
1950Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1954Sansho the Bailiff
1955Rokunin no AnsatsushaNakaoka Shintarō
1956Shirogane Shinjū
1957Temptress and the Monk
1957Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1964Adventures of Zatoichi