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Kinya Kitaoji
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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 Ich…
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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.
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Kinya Kitaoji's Filmography
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Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken
THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
as Saitō Dōsan
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
The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
as Raymond Fuu
三屋清左衛門残日録 新たなしあわせ
Castle of Sand
Whistleblower
as Ikuo Yakuyama
がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～
as 西條征士郎(さいじょう せいしろう)
三屋清左衛門残日録 三十年ぶりの再会
三屋清左衛門残日録 完結篇
as Mitsuya Seizaemon
Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings
as Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)
One Piece Film: GOLD
as Raise Max (voice)
Case 17
as Shuichi Itami
Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
as 香月玄太郎
三屋清左衛門残日録
as Mitsuya Seizaemon
Kenkaku Shōbai: Onikuma Izakaya
Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Sakura Housara
淋しい狩人
Legal High SP
as Isao Teshigawara
Asura
as Monk
I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore
as Hanazono Shugoro
The Last Revenge
as Tesshu Yamaoka
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
The Incite Mill
as Yoshi Ando
Sakurada Gate Incident
Eternal First Love
as Yuichi Makibara
Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Sushi King Goes to New York
as Gengoro
No Poster
Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
as Shohei Kazama
Warlord of the Underworld
as Jirocho Shimizu
The Peking Man
as Kin'ya Kitaôji
Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki
Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
as Saotome Mondonosuke
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
Rainbow Bridge
Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 8
as Sawatari Mondonosuke
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 7
as Sawatari Shusui
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
as Sawatari Shusui
Dohten
遊の人‐天下の御意見番 大久保彦左衛門‐
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 5
as Sawatari Shusui
Detective Heiji
as Heiji Zenigata
The Mysterious Lightning Beauty
as Kogoro Akechi
The Phantom Beauty of Kobe Rokko
as Kogoro Akechi
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 3
as Sawatari Shusui
Sensei
as Chairman of the town
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai 2
as Mondonosuke Saotome
No Poster
The Notorious Bored Samurai
as Mondosuke
The Beauty of the Sundial Mansion
as Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty in the Red Riding Outfit
as Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty in the Black Mask
as Kogoro Akechi
The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody
as Kogoro Akechi
Spring Bell
as Rokuheita Narumi
The Second Is a Christian
as Eiji
Yume-Chiyo
Fire Festival
as Tatsuo
The Story of a Man Among Men
Zero
as Jiro Horikoshi
Kukai
as Kukai
Shadow Conspirator
Future War 198X
as Wataru Mikumo (voice)
Lake of Illusions
as Nobunaga Oda
The Highest Honour
as Major Tachibana
南十字星
Abandoned
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Glowing Autumn
as Mamoru Kishida
Dynamite Don-Don
as Ginji Tachibana
Monument to Holy Service
Winter's Flower
as Michio Sakata
Shag
Mount Hakkoda
as Captain Kanda
The Alaska Story
as Frank Yasuda
The Corporation
as Kaibe
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
as Yumeji Takehisa
Gambling Den Heist
as Takeshi Kiyomoto
Shimane Prison Riot
as Yuji Kawamura
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Father of the Kamikaze
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Tamotsu Matsumura
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
The Blossom and the Sword
as Captain Sakagami
Rise, Fair Sun
as Asao
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Shunsuke Godai
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Shoji Yamanaka
A Woman Called En
Will to Conquer
as Ryōma Sakamoto
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as Soji Okita
Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
as Takeo
Tsugaru zessho
One Day at Summer's End
as Shigeo Ugari
No Poster
The Day the Sun Rose
Cry of the Mountain
Our Silent Love
River of Forever
Love on the Rainbow
as Tatsuya Kitakami
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
as 松平三郎元信（後の徳川家康）
Wolves, Pigs & Men
as Sabu, the third brother
The Navy
as Shinji
53 Stages of Action
Tokaido Fullhouse
as Okeya-no-oni
A Revengeful Raid
Keepers of Order
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Knightly Advice
No Poster
Young Lord and Second Son
Whistling Drifter
as Tsukinowa Gentaro
Law in Ghost Island
as Yusaku
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
The Orphan Brother
Fine Man
Traveling of Two Young Men
as Gentaro
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
No Poster
Bloody Battle at Dawn
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
The Acrobats of Death
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Kingdom of Youth
as Yamanaka Shikanoske
The Mansion of Intrigue
as Kyoya Kirishima
Shadow Over Fuji
Avenging Father
as Minamoto no Yoriie
