Yoshio Inaba

Yoshio Inaba (稲葉 義男) was a Japanese actor best known for his role as Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. In addition to his career in film, Inaba was also a prolific theater actor and a member of the prestigious Haiyuza Theatre Company. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.

Film

 * Umi no hanabi (1951)
 * Wakare-gumo (1951)
 * Seven Samurai (1954) - Gorobei Katayama
 * Horafuki tanji (1954) - Escaped Prisoner Iwagorō
 * Verrat an Deutschland (1955) - Mijagi
 * Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) (1955)
 * Uruwashiki haha (1955) - Shigematsu
 * Shujinsen (1956)
 * Arashi (1956) - Detective of the special political police
 * Mitsu-kubi-tou (1956) - Shōshichi Kitō
 * Throne of Blood (1957) - Third Military Commander
 * Ninjitsu (1957)
 * Jun'ai Monogatari (1957) - Doctor at Nisseki Hospital
 * Ballad of the Cart (1959) - Fujitaro
 * Fires on the Plain (1959)
 * Fujimi no otoko (1960)
 * Haru no yume (1960) - Yamada
 * Matsukawa-Jiken (1961)
 * Gokai senryo yari (1961) - Shibata
 * Kutsukake Tokijirō (1961) - Shōten
 * Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi (1962) - Shizuo Iwasaki
 * Woman of Design (1962) - Yasuda
 * Destiny's Son (1962) - Giichirō Ikebe
 * Harakiri (1962) - Jinai Chijiiwa
 * Zoku rokunin shimai (1962)
 * Yōsō (1963)
 * Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki (1964) - Ronin (uncredited)
 * Ken (1964) - Seiichiro Kokubun
 * The Scent of Incense - Nibu: Mitsumata no shō (1964)
 * The Great Killing (1964)
 * Nemuri Kyōshirō: Joyōken (1964) - Bizen-ya the Merchant
 * Samurai Assassin (1965) - Keijiro Sumita
 * Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Satan (1965) - Mizuno
 * Taiheiyō kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka (1965) - Tamai
 * Kemonomichi (1965)
 * The Guardman: Tokyo yōjimbō (1965) - Yoshida
 * Gohiki no shinshi (1966)
 * Onna no naka ni iru tanin (1966)
 * The Guardman: Tokyo Ninja Butai (1966) - Yoshida
 * Hikinige (1966)
 * Ichiman sanzennin (1966)
 * Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei (1967)
 * Chichi to ko: Zoku Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku (1967)
 * Nemuri Kyōshirō burai-hikae: Mashō no hada (1967)
 * Rengō kantai shirei chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) - Chief of Staff Ugaki
 * Battle of the Japan Sea (1969) - Chief of Staff Officer Shimamura
 * Kage no kuruma (1970)
 * Wakamono no hata (1970)
 * Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971) - Yoshitarō Araki
 * Silence (1971) - Prisoner official
 * Shinobu-ito (1973)
 * Yajū gari (1973) - Onimaru
 * Kaseki (1974)
 * Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974) - Ichinose Factory's owner
 * Castle of Sand (1974) - Search chief clerk
 * Koi wa midori no kaze no naka (1974)
 * Shōwa karesusuki (1975)
 * Gokumon-tō (1977) - Village Mayor Makihei Araki
 * Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) - Ochimusha
 * Mitsuyaku: Gaimushō kimitsu rōei jiken (1978) - Nakada
 * Kumokiri Nizaemon (1978) - Seizō
 * Nihon no don: kanketsuhen (1978) - Satomi
 * Mito Kōmon (1978) - Kihei
 * Blue Christmas (1978)
 * The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) - Ijichi Kōsuke
 * Willful Murder (1981) - Horii
 * Matagi (1982) - Kokichi Suzuki
 * The Challenge (1982) - Instructor
 * Battle Anthem (1983) - Kamimura
 * Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō (1983)
 * Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta (1983) - Kenzo Tashiro
 * Yōkirō (1983)
 * Kita no hotaru (1984) - Bessho (final film role)

Television

 * Taikōki (1965) as Katō Kiyotada
 * Daichūshingura (1971) as Kajikawa Yoriteru
 * Amigasa Jūbei (1974–75)
 * Tōge no Gunzō (1982) as Inakichi