Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 10/8/1911
- Birthplace
- Nagasaki, Japan
- Died
- 3/17/1978 (aged 66)
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- Akitake Kono, 山崎進蔵, Akitake Kôno
Biography
Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武 Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973. Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.
12 titles
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
Taro
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Kôno Taii
Sanshiro Sugata
1943
Yoshima Dan
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1952
Ise
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Itokawa
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
1945
Genzaburo Higaki
The Most Beautiful
1944
Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)
Adventures of Zatoichi
1964
Intendant Gorota Kajima
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
Matabei
Taira Clan Saga
1955
Heiroku
Snow Trail
1947
Honda
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
1969
Yasuke
