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Kazuo Kitamura
Kazuo Kitamura
Born	11 March 1927; Tokyo, Japan
Died	6 May 2007 (aged 80)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–2007

Kazuo Kitamura (北村和夫, Kitamura Kazuo, 11 March 1927 – 6 May 2007) was a Japanese actor. His son is actor Yukiya Kitamura.^[1]^[2]^[3] Kitamura met Shōhei Imamura when he was a student of Waseda University and became a close friend so often worked with Imamura.^[2]^[4]^[5] Kitamura joined Bungakuza theatre company and started his acting career in 1950.^[5] In 1953, he made his film debut with An Inlet of Muddy Water directed by Tadashi Imai.^[6]

Filmography

Film

An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) as Rickshaw man
Anyakôro (1959) as Takai
Yoru no nagare (1960)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) as Kitagô Sôchô
Till Tomorrow Comes (1962)
Wakai hito (1962) as Kenkichi Eguchi
High and Low (1963) as Third journalist
The Insect Woman (1963) as Chuji Matsuki
Yearning (1964) as Morizono
Kaze no Bushi (1964) as Yôroku Nabari
Otoko girai (1964) as Kingo Ashida
Nihiki no mesu inu (1964) as Aoyama
The Scent of Incense (1964) as Keisuke
Unholy Desire (1964) as Seiichiro Takahashi
Akujo (1964) as Kamekichi Enjo
Ryojin nikki (1964) as Kentaro Hatanaka - a lawyer
Kwaidan (1965) as Taira no Tomomori (segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi")
Himo (1965) as Akiko's husband
Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan (1965) as Shinsuke (episode 3)
A Chain of Islands (1965) as Narrator (voice)
Zettai tasu (1965)
Tobo (1965)
Honkon no shiroibara (1965) as Hiroshi Aoki
House of Terrors (Kaidan semushi otoko, 1965) as Dr. Keisuke Munakata the Uncle of Yoshie
The Pornographers (1966) as Doctor
Danryû (1966) as Dr. Hashizume
Eiko eno chôsen (1966)
Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief
Bakuha 3-byô mae (1967) as Sugiyama
Honô to onna (1967) as Fujikida
Dai akutô (1968) as Prosecutor Okano
Neon taiheiki (1968)
Nippon gerira jidai (1968) as Director of Beheiron
Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) as Doctor Kariya
Yami o saku ippatsu (1968)
A Woman and the Beancurd Soup (1968)
Jotai (1969) as Lawyer
Showa onna jingi (1969)
Hitorikko (1969)
The Militarists (1970) as Yamanaka (uncredited)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) as Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishôgai (1971)
Saredowareraga bibi yori wakarenôta (1971)
Summer Soldiers (1972) as Tachikawa
Koi no natsu (1972)
Aa koe naki tomo (1972) as Momose
Fureai (1974)
Kinkanshoku (1975)
Inubue (1978) as Ishii Design section manager
Never Give Up (1978) as Hikawa
Mitsuyaku: Gaimushô kimitsu rôei jiken (1978) as Taichi ishiyama
Taro the Dragon Boy (1979) as Niwatori-chouja (voice)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979) as Deike
Honjitsu tadaima tanjô (1979)
White Love (1979) as Yoichiro Yamashita
Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979) as Tanaka
Nippon keishichô no haji to iwareta futari: keiji chindôchû (1980)
Eijanaika (1981) as Koide Yamato no Kami
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) as Hamaguchi
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1982) as Rampu no mamono (voice)
Maboroshi no mizuumi (1982) as Onishi
Kaikyô (1982)
The Geisha (1983) as Yamaoka
Katayoku dake no tenshi (1986)
Guriin rekuiemu (1988) as Ryosuke Misawa
Kanashii iro yanen (1988) as Daisuke
Black Rain (1989) as Shigematsu Shizuma
Yume no matsuri (1989) as Doctor
Shaso (1989) as Ueno
A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) as Tsurumaru
Kagerô (1991) as Kosugi
Gokudo no onna-tachi: Kiken na kake (1996) as Takuma Sado
Tsuribaka nisshi 9 (1997)
Nodo jiman (1999) as Kôtarô
Nippon no kuroi natsu - Enzai (2001) as Takeo Nagata
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) as Taro
11'09"01 September 11 (2002) as Village Mayor (segment: Japan)
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005) as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Henshin (2005) as Hidetaka Doumoto
Metasequoia no ki no shita de (2005) as Dr. Tsukada
Goya-champuru (2006) as Taizo Suzuki
Sinking of Japan (2006) as Minister of Justice
Futô fukutsu (2007)
Beauty (2008) as Inaji (final film role)