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.
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A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin...
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A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline...
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After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At ...
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A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a host...
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In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children a...
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Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, dau...
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Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader w...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Adventures of Zatoichi (1964) | Intendant Gorota Kajima | 6 | |
| 2 | The Conspirator (1961) | - | 4 | |
| 3 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) | Kôno Taii | 6 | |
| 4 | Taira Clan Saga (1955) | Heiroku | 3 | |
| 5 | Sansho the Bailiff (1954) | Taro | 3 | |
| 6 | The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1952) | Ise | 6 | |
| 7 | Till We Meet Again (1950) | - | 5 | |
| 8 | Snow Trail (1947) | Honda | - | - |
| 9 | No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) | Itokawa | 4 | |
| 10 | Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945) | Genzaburo Higaki | 5 | |
| 11 | The Most Beautiful (1944) | Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited) | 4 | |
| 12 | Sanshiro Sugata (1943) | Yoshima Dan | 10 |

