
Acting
Jan 24, 1923
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Kō Nishimura
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (256)

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
Woman of Design

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new favorite, Ochisa, and the subsequent unhappiness of the other women.
Shogun and His Mistress 2

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
Lady Snowblood

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
47 Ronin

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woman Yuki at a vague shop after violence.
The Life of a Horse-Trader

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
The Bad Sleep Well

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
Ninja, A Band of Assassins

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
The Burmese Harp

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
High and Low

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji's earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.
The Wild Sea
Television & Series (10)

A UFO incident occurs when a group of five underachieving students and three incompetent teachers get into a fight! Mitamura Kunihiko, Kataoka Tsurutaro, and Yamamoto Kotaro play the teachers, while Nishimura Akira, who played Mito Komon in the TV drama "Mito Komon," plays the principal. Kunitachi City Michiya, a strange junior high school student who attends the National West Junior High School, and his classmates, and his classmate, depicts a mysterious tumult involving teachers and, and eventually the entire school. It incorporates plenty of occult elements such as UFOs and pyramids, and has begun to spread, such as installing microcomputers as props, and asking questions about school education, which was also ridiculed as academic bias,The [].
What if the school...?

The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the vicissitudes of women.
Kemono Michi

The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyougo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shoujo manga and Japanese folktales.









