
Acting
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Also Known As: 中村錦之助, Kin'ichi Ogawa, Kinnosuke Yorozuya
Birth Date
November 20, 1932
Death Date
March 10, 1997
(passed away at 64)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yorozuya Kinnosuke (萬屋錦之介) was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Kin'ichi Ogawa (小川 錦一 Ogawa Kin'ichi), son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizō III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name (yagō) Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity, Kinnosuke had an extensive film career. A specialist in jidaigeki, Kinnosuke appeared in more than 140 films. These include a 1957 Mito Kōmon and a 1961 appearance as the title character in the Toei Company's Miyamoto Musashi series (a role he reprised in 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965, and again in 1971). A versatile actor, he has played as many as seven characters in a single film.
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Haru no Sakamichi
Yagyū Munenori
1971 • 52 episodes

Lone Wolf and Cub
Ittô Ogami
1973 • 78 episodes

Swordsman With the Torn Umbrella
叶 刀舟
1974 • 131 episodes

Hana no Ran
Yamana Sōzen
1994 • 37 episodes

Wandering Wolf: Ryu the Branded Cross
1972 • 26 episodes

The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
Tadashiro Hiramatsu
1975 • 26 episodes

Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
Yagyu Tajima
1978

Death of a Tea Master
Urakusai Oda
1989

A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984 • 13 episodes

The Man of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
1981 • 1 episode

The Fall of Ako Castle
Oishi Kuranosuke
1978

The Shogun Assassins
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1979

Goyokin
Samon Fujimaki
1969

Revenge
Shinpachi Ezaki
1964

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu
1963

Samurai Banners
Shingen Takeda
1969

Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi (Takezo)
1961

The Ambitious
Ryoma Sakamoto
1970

Three Yakuza
1965

The Magoichi Saga
Saika Magoichi
1969