Kokuten Kōdō


Kokuten Kōdō, real name Tanigawa Saichirō, was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.

Career

Kōdō first began acting on the stage in 1901 in shinpa dramas. He joined the Teikine studio in 1923, and after the war, the Toho Studio. He appeared in numerous films by Akira Kurosawa, most notably in Seven Samurai as the village elder.

Filmography