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name: "Kinzō Sakura"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kinzo-sakura"
fi1m_id: "kinzo-sakura"
imdb_id: "nm0757296"
tmdb_id: 552542
wikidata_id: "Q11538226"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 December 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:30:57.977303+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kinzō Sakura

## Identity

Kinzō Sakura

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kinzo-sakura
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kinzo-sakura
- **IMDb ID:** nm0757296
- **TMDB ID:** 552542
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11538226
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11538226, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757296/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552542

Actor. Born 29 December 1956 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 December 1956, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- **Also known as:** Kinzou Sakura, Kinzoh Sakura, 佐藤金造, Kinzô Satô, Satou Shigeki, Satō Shigeki, Satoh Shigeki, Sato Shigeki, 佐藤茂樹
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11538226, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757296/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552542

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Tampopo*](https://film.one/film/tampopo.md) (84)

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## Biography

Kinzō Sakura is a Japanese actor and comedian. Born on 29 December 1956 in Hiroshima, he began his career in the mid-1970s as a comedian on variety programmes and as a member of comedy groups including The Handers.

He is known for supporting roles in Jūzō Itami’s films, playing Shohei in *Tampopo* (1985) and Kaneko in *A Taxing Woman* (1987) and *A Taxing Woman’s Return* (1988). Other film credits include *Mr. Baseball* (1992) as Umpire #1 and *Madadayo* (1993) as a policeman. He has also appeared in numerous television series and later worked as a teller of ghost stories.

*Sources: imdb.com, eiga.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tampopo* (1985), Fi1m 84, as Shohei — [page](https://film.one/film/tampopo.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kaidan Saikyou Sen 2018 The Decisive Battle* (2019), Actor
- *Kinzō Sakura: Ghost Stories - Real Accounts! Stories So Scary You'll Die* (2014), Actor
- *Kinzō Sakura: Ghost Stories - Real Accounts! Return from the Brink of Death* (2014), Actor
- *Kinzo OF THE DEAD: Kinzo Sakura's Comeback in the Entertainment World* (2014), Actor
- *Chips* (2012), Actor
- *Kinzō Sakura's True Scary Stories* (2010), Actor
- *Kinzo's Ghost Stories* (2009), Actor
- *Kinzō Sakura's Scary Stories You Can't Tell on TV* (2009), Actor
- *Shocking Footage!! Unidentified Mysterious Animal (UMA)* (2008), Actor
- *Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown* (2008), as Carpenter
- *Engine Sentai Go-Onger* (2008), series, as Santa Claus
- *Honto Ni Atta!! Toshi Densetsu: Saikyo-ban* (2006), Actor
- *Ryûji Forever* (2002), as Ginzô's Manager
- *TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: Kinzo Special* (2001), Actor
- *Sugisawa Village Legend: Kanzen mu Sakujo Zettai Kyofu-ban* (2001), Actor
- *TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: The Very Scary Story of Tsumami Edamame* (2001), Actor
- *TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: The Fearsome Edamame* (2001), Actor
- *Juvenile* (2000), Actor
- *TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: Gut Test 2000* (2000), Actor
- *Birdcage of Horrors* (1999), Actor
- *Keizoku: Unsolved Cases* (1999), series, as Yukio Hashimoto
- *TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: Midnight Dare* (1999), Actor
- *TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: The Devil's Video - Ghostly Apocalypse* (1999), Actor
- *Shomuni* (1998), Actor
- *Bayside Shakedown* (1998), Actor
- *My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness* (1998), Actor
- *Abare Bunya* (1998), Actor
- *My Sky (Detective Edition)* (1998), Actor
- *Locksmith KACHIRI* (1997), Actor
- *Bayside Shakedown* (1997), series, as Chief of the Violent Crimes Section, Criminal Division, Kachidoki Police Station
- *Dochinpira 13: Virgin Palace Breaking* (1995), Actor
- *The Original Pachinko Story 2: The Battle for Ekimae* (1994), Actor
- *The Original Pachinko Story 1: A Curious Journey to the Hot Springs* (1994), Actor
- *Human Scramble: Road* (1993), Actor
- *Madadayo* (1993), as Policeman
- *Mr. Baseball* (1992), as Umpire #1
- *Shout: Angels Crying* (1992), Actor
- *A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era* (1991), as Saigo Takamori
- *Swimming Upstream* (1990), as Yoshio
- *Natsu no pēji* (1990), as Uchida
- *Let’s Go Home Someday* (1990), Actor
- *You'll Fall For Me* (1989), Actor
- *Fu · Shi · Gi · na BABY* (1988), as Yasui
- *Those Swell Yakuza* (1988), Actor
- *A Taxing Woman's Return* (1988), as Kaneko
- *A Taxing Woman* (1987), as Kaneko
- *Like a Savage* (1985), as Uzaki (Kanto Nishiki Federation)
- *Tampopo* (1985), as Shohei — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/tampopo.md)
- *Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki* (1985), as Nakagawa
- *Kyoko Aizome's Widow Boarding House* (1984), as Ozaki (Lodger)
- *Fireflies in the North* (1984), Actor
- *Ryuji* (1983), as Nao
- *Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather* (1982), as Rokuzo
- *Successful Filming! A DVD That Brings Happiness When Watched?! Zashiki-warashi*, Actor

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