Kin'ya Kitaōji (北大路 欣也, Kitaōji Kin'ya, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor.
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Born | Kyoto, Japan | February 23, 1943
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1956–present |
He was born in Kyoto, son of jidaigeki film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences II in Tokyo.
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: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima 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 (The Bored Hatamoto). It ran from 1988 to 1994 on TV Asahi. His father, Ichikawa Utaemon, had appeared in numerous films and a 1973-74 TV series 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 Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub) (2002-2004), 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. Kitaōji played one of the lead roles 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.[citation needed]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Ref. |
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1956 | Oyakodaka | Young Katsu Kaishū | Sadatsugu Matsuda | Debut role | |
1958 | Kingdom of Youth | Yamanaka Shikanosuke | Kōkichi Uchide | Lead role | |
1961 | The Orphan Brother | Zushiōmaru (voice) | Yūgo Serikawa / Taiji Yabushita | ||
1962 | Tale of Genji Kuro | Minamoto no Yoshitsune | Sadatsugu Matsuda | Lead role | |
1965 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Matsudaira Motonobu | Daisuke Itō | Lead role | |
1969 | Shinsengumi | Okita Sōji | Tadashi Sawashima | ||
1971 | Men and War Part II | Shunsuke Godai | Satsuo Yamamoto | ||
1973 | Men and War Part III | Shunsuke Godai | Satsuo Yamamoto | ||
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima | Shoji Yamanaka | Kinji Fukasaku | Lead role | ||
1974 | Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode | Tamotsu Matsumura | Kinji Fukasaku | ||
Karei-naru Ichizoku | Yoshihiko Ichinose | Satsuo Yamamoto | |||
1975 | Cross the Rubicon! | Takeshi Kiyomoto | Kinji Fukasaku | Lead role | |
1976 | Fumō Chitai | Kaifu | Satsuo Yamamoto | ||
1977 | Mount Hakkoda | Captain Kanda | Shirō Moritani | Lead role | |
1978 | Dynamaite Don Don | Ginji | Kihachi Okamoto | ||
1982 | Future War 198X | Wataru Mikumo (voice) | Tomoharu Katsumata / Toshio Masuda | Lead role | |
1984 | Kūkai | Kūkai | Junya Sato | Lead role | |
1985 | Fire Festival | Tatsuo | Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Lead role | |
Haru no Kane | Rokuheita Narumi | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Lead role | ||
1993 | Rainbow Bridge | Chōzaemon | Zenzo Matsuyama | ||
2010 | The Incite Mill | Yoshiya Ando | Hideo Nakata | ||
2012 | Asura | Buddhist Monk (voice) | Keiichi Sato | ||
2016 | One Piece Film: Gold | Raise Max (voice) | Hiroaki Miyamoto | ||
2019 | Whistleblower | Ikuo Tokuyama | Katsuo Fukuzawa | ||
2020 | The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess | Raymond | Akira Tanaka | ||
2023 | The Legend and Butterfly | Saitō Dōsan | Keishi Ōtomo |
Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref. |
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1968 | Ryōma ga Yuku | Sakamoto Ryōma | NHK | Lead role; Taiga drama | |
1970 | Momi no Ki wa Nokotta | Sakai Tadakiyo | NHK | Taiga drama | |
1987 | Dokuganryū Masamune | Date Terumune | NHK | Taiga drama | |
1991–1998 | Zenigata Heiji | Zenigata Heiji | Fuji TV | Lead role; 7 seasons | |
2001 | Hojo Tokimune | Xie Guoming | NHK | Taiga drama | |
2002-2004 | Lone Wolf and Cub | Ogami Itto | TV Asahi | Lead role; 3 seasons | |
2007 | The Family | Daisuke Manpyo | TBS | ||
Liar Game | Hasegawa | Fuji TV | |||
2008 | Atsuhime | Katsu Kaishū | NHK | Taiga drama | |
2008 | Genjūrō Hissatsuken | Koyama Genjuro | TV Tokyo | Lead role | |
2009 | Genjūrō's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami | Koyama Genjuro | TV Tokyo | Lead role; TV movie | |
2010–2018 | Zettai Reido | Hideo Nagashima | Fuji TV | 3 seasons | |
2011 | Gō | Tokugawa Ieyasu | NHK | Taiga drama | |
2012 | Man of Destiny | Prime Minister Sahashi | TBS | ||
2013–2020 | Hanzawa Naoki | Ken Nakanowatari | TBS | Special appearance; 2 seasons | |
2014 | Doctor-X | Yoshihito Tendō | TV Asahi | Season 3 | |
2015 | Burning Flower | Mōri Takachika | NHK | Taiga drama | |
Massan | Ryūnosuke Uesugi | NHK | Asadora | ||
2015–2023 | Seven Detectives | Shuntaro Domoto | TV Asahi | 9 seasons | |
2019–2022 | Kioku Sōsa | Ichiro Onizuka | TV Tokyo | Lead role; 3 seasons | |
2021 | Reach Beyond the Blue Sky | Tokugawa Ieyasu | NHK | Taiga drama |
Year | Title | Role | Dub for | Ref. |
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2009 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | Professor Parker Wilson | Richard Gere |
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