Kinya Kitaoji
Early life: 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. 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: 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. 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. 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Believe as Bando Goro
- 2024 · Alice in Wonderful Kitchen as Gojo Michitaka
- 2023 · Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero as
- 2023 · THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY as Saitō Dōsan
- 2022 · さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル 塩屋岬いわき殺人事件 as
- 2021 · In His Chart as Itagaki Genzo [Director]
- 2020 · The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – as Raymond Fuu
- 2020 · Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist as Kyotaro Onda
- 2019 · Castle of Sand as
- 2019 · Whistleblower as Ikuo Yakuyama
- 2019 · Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~ as
- 2018 · がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～ as 西條征士郎(さいじょう せいしろう)
- 2017 · Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi as Wataru Enoki
- 2016 · Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings as Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)
- 2016 · One Piece Film: GOLD as Raise Max (voice)
- 2016 · Case 17 as Shuichi Itami
- 2016 · Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke as 香月玄太郎
- 2016 · Fragile as Kaoru Nakaguma
- 2015 · Keiji 7-nin as Shuntaro Domoto
- 2015 · I'm Home as Yozo Ieji
- 2014 · Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel as
- 2014 · Sanbiki no Ossan as 清田清一
- 2014 · Sakura Housara as
- 2013 · 淋しい狩人 as
- 2013 · Hanzawa Naoki as Ken Nakanowatari
- 2013 · Legal High SP as Teshigawara Isao
- 2012 · Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon as Yoshito Tendo（天堂 義人）
- 2012 · Asura as Monk
- 2012 · Breathless Summer as Shusaku Natsume
- 2012 · Blackboard as Akinori Shioda
- 2012 · Blackboard as Shioda Akinori
- 2012 · Man of Destiny as Keisaku Sahashi
- 2012 · I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore as Hanazono Shugoro
- 2011 · The Last Revenge as Tesshu Yamaoka
- 2011 · Princess Go as
- 2010 · Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke as
- 2010 · The Incite Mill as Yoshi Ando
- 2010 · Sakurada Gate Incident as
- 2010 · Eternal First Love as Yuichi Makibara
- 2010 · Absolute Zero as Hideo Nagashima
- 2009 · Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami as
- 2009 · Triangle as Kuroki Shinzo
- 2008 · 刑事シュート しゅうと&ムコの事件日誌 as
- 2008 · Sushi King Goes to New York as Gengoro
- 2008 · Phantom Assassin as Koyama Genjuro
- 2008 · Atsuhime as
- 2007 · Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces as Kuwayama Jubei
- 2007 · The Grand Family as Daisuke Manpyo
- 2005 · Magistrate Ooka Echizen as
- 2005 · The Story of Dominating Countries as
- 2004 · 忠臣蔵 as
- 2004 · Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case as Shohei Kazama
- 2003 · さすらい署長 風間昭平 as
- 2002 · Lone Wolf and Cub as Ogami Ittô
- 2002 · 生存 愛する娘のために as
- 2001 · Hojo Tokimune as Sha Kokumei
- 1998 · Secret Magistrate Asahina as Asahina Kawachinokami Masakiyo
- 1997 · The Peking Man as Kin'ya Kitaôji
- 1996 · SMAP×SMAP as Skit Guest
- 1996 · Further Tales of Musashi as Miyamoto Musashi
- 1995 · Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki as
- 1995 · Assassin's Target: Iemitsu as
- 1994 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 9 as Saotome Mondonosuke
- 1994 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 9 as
- 1993 · Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy as
- 1993 · 事件 (テレビ朝日のテレビドラマ) as
- 1993 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 8 as Sawatari Mondonosuke
- 1993 · Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death as
- 1993 · Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2 as
- 1993 · Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon as
- 1992 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 7 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1992 · The Diary of Chuji's Travels as Chuji
- 1992 · Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan as
- 1991 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 6 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1991 · Dohten as
- 1990 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 5 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1990 · Miyamoto Musashi as Miyamoto Musashi
- 1989 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 3 as Sawatari Shusui
- 1989 · Sensei as Chairman of the town
- 1989 · Sanada Yukimura as
- 1988 · The Notorious Bored Samurai 2 as Mondonosuke Saotome
- 1988 · The Notorious Bored Samurai as Mondosuke
- 1987 · Masamune Shogun as 伊達輝宗
- 1987 · Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu as
- 1986 · Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches as Genroku Kano (Tokugawa Yoshimune)
- 1985 · Spring Bell as Rokuheita Narumi
- 1985 · The Second Is a Christian as Eiji
- 1985 · The Second Is a Christian as
- 1985 · Yume-Chiyo as
- 1985 · Fire Festival as Tatsuo
- 1984 · The Story of a Man Among Men as
- 1984 · Zero as Jiro Horikoshi
- 1984 · Kukai as Kukai
- 1982 · Shadow Conspirator as
- 1982 · Future War 198X as Wataru Mikumo (voice)
- 1982 · Lake of Illusions as Nobunaga Oda
- 1982 · The Highest Honour as Major Tachibana
- 1981 · Abandoned as
- 1980 · Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as
- 1978 · Glowing Autumn as
- 1978 · Dynamite Don-Don as Ginji Tachibana
- 1978 · Monument to Holy Service as
- 1978 · Winter's Flower as Michio Sakata
- 1978 · Shag as
- 1977 · Mount Hakkoda as Captain Kanda
- 1977 · The Alaska Story as Frank Yasuda
- 1976 · The Corporation as
- 1976 · Love and Separation in Sri Lanka as
- 1975 · Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru as Yumeji Takehisa
- 1975 · Gambling Den Heist as Takeshi Kiyomoto
- 1975 · Shimane Prison Riot as Yuji Kawamura
- 1975 · Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack as
- 1974 · Father of the Kamikaze as
- 1974 · Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Tamotsu Matsumura
- 1974 · Akumyo: Notorious Dragon as
- 1973 · The Blossom and the Sword as Captain Sakagami
- 1973 · Rise, Fair Sun as
- 1973 · Men and War III: The Final Chapter as Shunsuke Godai
- 1973 · Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Shoji Yamanaka
- 1971 · A Woman Called En as
- 1970 · Will to Conquer as
- 1970 · Mominoki wa Nokotta as Sakai Tadakiyo
- 1969 · Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Soji Okita
- 1969 · Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator as Takeo
- 1968 · One Day at Summer's End as Shigeo Ugari
- 1968 · The Day the Sun Rose as
- 1968 · Ryoma ga Yuku as Sakamoto Ryoma
- 1967 · River of Forever as
- 1965 · Love on the Rainbow as Tatsuya Kitakami
- 1965 · Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as
- 1964 · Wolves, Pigs & Men as Sabu, the third brother
- 1963 · The Navy as Shinji
- 1963 · 53 Stages of Action as
- 1963 · Tokaido Fullhouse as Okeya-no-oni
- 1962 · A Revengeful Raid as
- 1962 · Keepers of Order as
- 1962 · Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha as
- 1962 · Genkuro Yoshitsune as
- 1962 · Knightly Advice as
- 1961 · Young Lord and Second Son as
- 1961 · Whistling Drifter as Tsukinowa Gentaro
- 1961 · Law in Ghost Island as Yusaku
- 1961 · The Orphan Brother as
- 1961 · Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku as
- 1961 · Fine Man as
- 1960 · Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return as
- 1959 · Bloody Battle at Dawn as
- 1959 · Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy as
- 1959 · The Acrobats of Death as
- 1958 · Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute as
- 1958 · Kingdom of Youth as Yamanaka Shikanoske
- 1957 · The Mansion of Intrigue as Kirishima Kyoya
- 1957 · Shadow Over Fuji as
- 1956 · Avenging Father as Minamoto no Yoriie
- 1956 · Virtue in Spades as
- 2024 · 白虎隊～敗れざる者たち as