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