Yoshio Inaba

Yoshio Inaba
was a Japanese actor best known for his role as Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. In addition to his career in film, Inaba was also a prolific theater actor and a member of the prestigious Haiyuza Theatre Company. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
Filmography
Film
Umi no hanabi (1951)
Wakare-gumo (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954) - Gorobei Katayama
Horafuki tanji (1954) - Escaped Prisoner Iwagorō
(1955) - Mijagi
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) (1955)
Uruwashiki haha (1955) - Shigematsu
Shujinsen (1956)
Arashi (1956) - Detective of the special political police
Mitsu-kubi-tou (1956) - Shōshichi Kitō
Throne of Blood (1957) - Third Military Commander
Ninjitsu (1957)
Jun'ai Monogatari (1957) - Doctor at Nisseki Hospital
Ballad of the Cart (1959) - Fujitaro
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Fujimi no otoko (1960)
Haru no yume (1960) - Yamada
Matsukawa-Jiken (1961)
Gokai senryo yari (1961) - Shibata
Kutsukake Tokijirō (1961) - Shōten
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi (1962) - Shizuo Iwasaki
Woman of Design (1962) - Yasuda
Destiny's Son (1962) - Giichirō Ikebe
Harakiri (1962) - Jinai Chijiiwa
Zoku rokunin shimai (1962)
Yōsō (1963)
Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki (1964) - Ronin (uncredited)
Ken (1964) - Seiichiro Kokubun
The Scent of Incense - Nibu: Mitsumata no shō (1964)
The Great Killing (1964)
Nemuri Kyōshirō: Joyōken (1964) - Bizen-ya the Merchant
Samurai Assassin (1965) - Keijiro Sumita
Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Satan (1965) - Mizuno
Taiheiyō kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka (1965) - Tamai
Kemonomichi (1965)
The Guardman: Tokyo yōjimbō (1965) - Yoshida
Gohiki no shinshi (1966)
Onna no naka ni iru tanin (1966)
The Guardman: Tokyo Ninja Butai (1966) - Yoshida
Hikinige (1966)
Ichiman sanzennin (1966)
Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei (1967)
Chichi to ko: Zoku Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku (1967)
Nemuri Kyōshirō burai-hikae: Mashō no hada (1967)
Rengō kantai shirei chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) - Chief of Staff Ugaki
Battle of the Japan Sea (1969) - Chief of Staff Officer Shimamura
Kage no kuruma (1970)
Wakamono no hata (1970)
Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971) - Yoshitarō Araki
Silence (1971) - Prisoner official
Shinobu-ito (1973)
Yajū gari (1973) - Onimaru
Kaseki (1974)
Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974) - Ichinose Factory's owner
Castle of Sand (1974) - Search chief clerk
Koi wa midori no kaze no naka (1974)
Shōwa karesusuki (1975)
Gokumon-tō (1977) - Village Mayor Makihei Araki
Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) - Ochimusha
Mitsuyaku: Gaimushō kimitsu rōei jiken (1978) - Nakada
Kumokiri Nizaemon (1978) - Seizō
Nihon no don: kanketsuhen (1978) - Satomi
Mito Kōmon (1978) - Kihei
Blue Christmas (1978)
The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) - Ijichi Kōsuke
Willful Murder (1981) - Horii
Matagi (1982) - Kokichi Suzuki
The Challenge (1982) - Instructor
Battle Anthem (1983) - Kamimura
Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō (1983)
Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta (1983) - Kenzo Tashiro
Yōkirō (1983)
Kita no hotaru (1984) - Bessho (final film role)
Television
Taikōki (1965) as Katō Kiyotada
Daichūshingura (1971) as Kajikawa Yoriteru
Amigasa Jūbei (1974–75)
Tōge no Gunzō (1982) as Inakichi
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1920 births
1998 deaths
People from Narita, Chiba
Actors from Chiba Prefecture
20th-century Japanese male actors