Yoshio Inaba(1920-1998)
- Actor
Japanese character actor who achieved his greatest acclaim in the role
of "Gorobei" in Akira Kurosawa's Les 7 Samouraïs (1954). Inaba began in the theatre after the
Second World War, joining the Haiyu-Za company and appearing in plays
such as The Cherry Orchard and The Threepenny Opera. His film debut
came in 1954, and he worked steadily in the following years as a
character actor, usually of a good-hearted type. He died from a heart
attack in 1998.
