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Kō Nishimura
Acting
Born: January 25, 1923
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

High and Low
as Third Creditor

Yojimbo
as Kuma

Red Beard
as Chief retainer

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
as Magobei 'Snake' Onishi

Lady Snowblood
as Priest Dokai

The Burmese Harp
as Baba

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
as Magobei "Snake" Onishi

13 Assassins
as Kujuro Hirayama

The Bad Sleep Well
as Contract Officer Shirai

The Sword of Doom
as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'