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YOSHIO INABA

Yoshio Inaba

Yoshio Inaba (1954)

Biography

BIO

Yoshio Inaba | 稲葉義男 was born Yoshihisa Inaba in Narita, Chiba, Japan, in 1920.

After graduating from Nihon University, he began his career in the Japanese theatre in 1950, at the age of 30.

Inaba appeared in his first film in 1951 for Shochiku.

After more than 60 features, his last film role was in 1984.

Inaba died of a heart attack in Tokyo, in 1998.   He was 77 years old.


Films

NOTED FILMS

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai
  • Seven Samurai
  • 七人の侍
  • 1954
  • Akira Kurosawa's homeric story of a band of samurai that defends a small village against marauders in the waning days of the feudal warlord era is not only a genre classic, but also influenced many Westerns decades later.
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