Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
05 Feb, 1898 (127 years old)

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Denjirō Ōkōchi (5 February 1898 – 18 July 1962) was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in jidaigeki directed by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Daisuke Itō, Sadao Yamanaka, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hiroshi Inagaki and Masahiro Makino. His real name was Masuo Ōbe. Training in Shinkokugeki under Shōjirō Sawada, Ōkōchi entered Nikkatsu in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara films playing characters such as Chūji Kunisada and Sazen Tange. At his peak, he was one of the top jidaigeki stars alongside Tsumasaburō Bandō and Chiezō Kataoka. During World War II, he also appeared in a number of war films. His house and garden in Arashiyama, Kyoto, called Ōkōchi Sansō, are still preserved and open to the public. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denjirō Ōkōchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Eagle of the Pacific
HD
119 min 1953

The Eagle of the Pacific

Drama
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
HD
59 min 1952

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Drama
No Regrets for Our Youth
HD
111 min 1946

No Regrets for Our Youth

Drama
Battle Troop
HD
95 min 1944

Battle Troop

War
Sanshiro Sugata
HD
80 min 1943

Sanshiro Sugata

Drama

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