Kin'ya Kitaōji
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Born |
Kyoto, Japan | February 23, 1943
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1956–present |
Kin'ya Kitaōji (北大路 欣也 Kitaōji Kin'ya, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Kyoto, son of famous 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: Hiroshima Deathmatch 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.[1] Kitaōji played one of the lead role 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.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1956 | Oyakodaka | Young Katsu Kaishū | Sadatsugu Matsuda | Debut role |
1973 | Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima | Shoji Yamanaka | Kinji Fukasaku | |
1974 | Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode | Tamotsu Matsumura | Kinji Fukasaku | |
1976 | Fumō Chitai | Kaifu | Satsuo Yamamoto | |
1977 | Mount Hakkoda | Captain Kanda | Shirō Moritani | |
1982 | Future War 198X | Mikumo Wataru | Tomoharu Katsumata/Toshio Masuda | Voice role |
1982 | The Highest Honor | Tachibana | Seiji Maruyama/Peter Maxwell | |
1985 | Fire Festival | Tatsuo | Mitsuo Yanagimachi | |
2010 | The Incite Mill | Yoshiya Ando | Hideo Nakata | |
2012 | Asura | Buddhist Monk | Keiichi Sato | Voice role |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
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1968 | Ryōma ga Yuku | Sakamoto Ryōma | NHK | Taiga drama |
1987 | Dokuganryū Masamune | Date Terumune | NHK | Taiga drama |
2007 | Liar Game | Hasegawa | Fuji TV | |
2008 | Atsuhime | Katsu Kaishū | NHK | Taiga drama |
2010 | Zettai Reido | Hideo Nagashima | Fuji TV | |
2011 | Gō | Tokugawa Ieyasu | NHK | Taiga drama |
2013 | Hanzawa Naoki | Ken Nakanowatari | TBS | |
2014 | Doctor X | Yoshihito Tendō | TV Asahi | Taiga drama |
2015 | Hana Moyu | Mōri Takachika | NHK | Taiga drama |
2015 | Massan | Ryūnosuke Uesugi | NHK | Asadora |
Theater
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1964 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Christian de Neuvillette | Takeo Matsuura |
1998 | NINAGAWA Macbeth | Macbeth | Yukio Ninagawa |
2009 | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon | Katsuhide Suzuki |
Video games
Year | Title | Role |
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2010 | Yakuza 4 | Seishiro Munakata |
Dubbing roles
Year | Title | Role |
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2009 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | Professor Parker Wilson (Richard Gere) |
Honours
Sources
This article incorporates material from 北大路欣也 ("Kin'ya Kitaōji") in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved January 29, 2008.
References
- ↑ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
External links
- Kin'ya Kitaōji at the Internet Movie Database
- 北大路欣也 at JMDB
- Official page at the Horipro agency
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