Akitake Kōno
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.
Known for
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- Outlaw (1953)
- Ejima and Ikushima (1955)
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
- Castle of Carnage (1952)
- Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
- Shunsetsu no mon (1953)
- Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1952)
- Night of the Suspicions (1959)
- The Most Beautiful (1944)
- Kazanmyaku (1950)
- Police Precinct Part 12 (1960)
- The Conspirator (1961)
- Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman (1969)
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
- Tower of Lilies (1953)
- The Shape of Night (1964)
- Taira Clan Saga (1955)