ACTOR

Isao Kimura

1923 - 1981

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Isao Kimura (木村 功, Kimura Isao, 22 June 1923 – 4 July 1981), sometimes credited as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in more than one hundred films of directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and Yoshishige Yoshida. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isao Kimura has received more than 149,226 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Isao Kimura is the 3,818th most popular actor (down from 3,232nd in 2019), the 1,142nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 993rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Isao Kimura ranks 3,818 out of 13,578. Before him are Klara Rumyanova, André Wilms, Tita Merello, Dominique Lavanant, Christiane Hörbiger, and Tommy Rettig. After him are Reiner Schöne, Jeremy Northam, Sandra Bernhard, Lupita Ferrer, Madeleine Carroll, and Elizabeth Mitchell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Isao Kimura ranks 284. Before him are Patrick Hillery, Ennio de Concini, Mikhail Pugovkin, Jim Reeves, Bruno Zumino, and Adolf Grünbaum. After him are Ernesto Prinoth, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Peter Gay, Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg, N. T. Rama Rao, and Geoff Duke. Among people deceased in 1981, Isao Kimura ranks 147. Before him are Karl Struss, Antonio Berni, Durgabai Deshmukh, Rino Gaetano, Gerhard Marcks, and Ross Martin. After him are Paul Hörbiger, Francis Hunter, Ernesto Prinoth, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Yury Trifonov, and Lev Atamanov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Isao Kimura ranks 1,142 out of 6,245. Before him are Hajime Isayama (1986), Tadashi Imai (1912), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Akira Emoto (1948), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Yumi Matsutoya (1954). After him are Toru Iwatani (1955), Kanno Sugako (1881), Chiaki Mukai (1952), Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), Kappei Yamaguchi (1965), and Mitsuo Kato (1953).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Isao Kimura ranks 69. Before him are Isuzu Yamada (1917), Masayuki Mori (1911), Megumi Ogata (1965), Ichirō Nagai (1931), Haruko Sugimura (1909), and Akira Emoto (1948). After him are Kappei Yamaguchi (1965), Hiroshi Abe (1964), Ayako Wakao (1933), Kenjiro Tsuda (1971), Noriko Ohara (1935), and Banjō Ginga (1948).

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Television and Movie Roles

Seven Samurai
Katsushiro Okamoto
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Apr 26th 19548.5 / 10
High and Low
Detective Arai
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Mar 1st 19638.3 / 10
Ikiru
Intern
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Oct 9th 19528.3 / 10