Kin'ya Kitaōji

Kin'ya Kitaōji (北大路 欣也, Kitaōji Kin'ya, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor.

Kin'ya Kitaōji
Kitaōji in a studio still for Wakagimi to Jinanbō (1961)
Born (1943-02-23) February 23, 1943
Kyoto, Japan
OccupationActor
Years active1956–present

Biography

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.[1]

Acting career

Kin'ya made his debut with his father in the 1956 Toei film Oyakodaka[1] 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.[2] 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.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Director Notes Ref.
1956 Oyakodaka Young Katsu Kaishū Sadatsugu Matsuda Debut role [3]
1958 Kingdom of Youth Yamanaka Shikanosuke Kōkichi Uchide Lead role [4]
1961 The Orphan Brother Zushiōmaru (voice) Yūgo Serikawa / Taiji Yabushita [5]
1962 Tale of Genji Kuro Minamoto no Yoshitsune Sadatsugu Matsuda Lead role [6]
1965 Tokugawa Ieyasu Matsudaira Motonobu Daisuke Itō Lead role [7]
1969 Shinsengumi Okita Sōji Tadashi Sawashima [8]
1971 Men and War Part II Shunsuke Godai Satsuo Yamamoto [9]
1973 Men and War Part III Shunsuke Godai Satsuo Yamamoto [10]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima Shoji Yamanaka Kinji Fukasaku Lead role [3]
1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode Tamotsu Matsumura Kinji Fukasaku [3]
Karei-naru Ichizoku Yoshihiko Ichinose Satsuo Yamamoto [11]
1975 Cross the Rubicon! Takeshi Kiyomoto Kinji Fukasaku Lead role [12]
1976 Fumō Chitai Kaifu Satsuo Yamamoto [13]
1977 Mount Hakkoda Captain Kanda Shirō Moritani Lead role [14]
1978 Dynamaite Don Don Ginji Kihachi Okamoto [15]
1982 Future War 198X Wataru Mikumo (voice) Tomoharu Katsumata / Toshio Masuda Lead role [16]
1984 Kūkai Kūkai Junya Sato Lead role [3]
1985 Fire Festival Tatsuo Mitsuo Yanagimachi Lead role [17]
Haru no Kane Rokuheita Narumi Koreyoshi Kurahara Lead role [3]
1993 Rainbow Bridge Chōzaemon Zenzo Matsuyama [18]
2010 The Incite Mill Yoshiya Ando Hideo Nakata [19]
2012 Asura Buddhist Monk (voice) Keiichi Sato [20]
2016 One Piece Film: Gold Raise Max (voice) Hiroaki Miyamoto [21]
2019 Whistleblower Ikuo Tokuyama Katsuo Fukuzawa [14]
2020 The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess Raymond Akira Tanaka [14]
2023 The Legend and Butterfly Saitō Dōsan Keishi Ōtomo [22]

Television
Year Title Role Network Notes Ref.
1968 Ryōma ga Yuku Sakamoto Ryōma NHK Lead role; Taiga drama [3]
1970 Momi no Ki wa Nokotta Sakai Tadakiyo NHK Taiga drama [23]
1987 Dokuganryū Masamune Date Terumune NHK Taiga drama [3]
1991–1998 Zenigata Heiji Zenigata Heiji Fuji TV Lead role; 7 seasons [24]
2001 Hojo Tokimune Xie Guoming NHK Taiga drama [3]
2007 The Family Daisuke Manpyo TBS [11]
Liar Game Hasegawa Fuji TV [25]
2008 Atsuhime Katsu Kaishū NHK Taiga drama [3]
2010–2018 Zettai Reido Hideo Nagashima Fuji TV 3 seasons [14]
2011 Gō Tokugawa Ieyasu NHK Taiga drama [14]
2012 Man of Destiny Prime Minister Sahashi TBS [26]
2013–2020 Hanzawa Naoki Ken Nakanowatari TBS Special appearance; 2 seasons [14]
2014 Doctor-X Yoshihito Tendō TV Asahi Season 3 [27]
2015 Burning Flower Mōri Takachika NHK Taiga drama [14]
Massan Ryūnosuke Uesugi NHK Asadora [28]
2015–2022 Seven Detectives Shuntaro Domoto TV Asahi 8 seasons [14]
2019–2022 Kioku Sōsa Ichiro Onizuka TV Tokyo Lead role; 3 seasons [29]
2021 Reach Beyond the Blue Sky Tokugawa Ieyasu NHK Taiga drama [30]

Dubbing
Year Title Role Dub for Ref.
2009 Hachi: A Dog's Tale Professor Parker Wilson Richard Gere [31]

Honours

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