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name: "Minosuke Yamada"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/minosuke-yamada"
fi1m_id: "minosuke-yamada"
imdb_id: "nm0945253"
tmdb_id: 980381
wikidata_id: "Q18054917"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 November 1893"
died: "3 August 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-28T20:37:54.991612+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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# Minosuke Yamada

## Identity

Minosuke Yamada

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/minosuke-yamada
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** minosuke-yamada
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945253
- **TMDB ID:** 980381
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18054917
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18054917, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945253/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/980381

Actor. Born 13 November 1893 in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Died 3 August 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 November 1893, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- **Died:** 3 August 1968
- **Active:** 1952–1955
- **Frequently works with:** [Takashi Shimura](https://film.one/person/takashi-shimura.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18054917, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945253/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/980381

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- **HBO Max:** [*Ikiru*](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md) (92)

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## Biography

Minosuke Yamada (山田巳之助) was a Japanese actor. He was born on 13 November 1893 in Tokyo and died on 3 August 1968.

Yamada appeared in numerous Japanese films from the 1930s onwards. He is credited as Subordinate Clerk Saito in Akira Kurosawa's *Ikiru* (1952). Other roles include Chief of Civil Defense in *Godzilla Raids Again* (1955), Mining Chief Osaki in *Rodan* (1956), and Secretary of Defense in *The Mysterians* (1957). He also appeared in *The H-Man* (1958) and *The Three Treasures* (1959).

*Sources: imdb.com, mydramalist.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ikiru* (1952), Fi1m 92, as Subordinate Clerk Saito — [page](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

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

- *Could I But Live* (1964), as Chief of Investigation Dept
- *Asakusa no kyōkaku* (1963), as Reikichi Raimon
- *Akatsuki* (1963), series, as 兼吉
- *Varan the Unbelievable* (1962), as Secretary of Defense
- *The Human Vapor* (1960), as Official (uncredited)
- *The Gambling Samurai* (1960), as Uemon
- *The Three Treasures* (1959), as Okuri of Kunizo
- *The Enchanting Devil* (1959), Actor
- *Gigantis, the Fire Monster* (1959), as Chief of Civil Defense (uncredited)
- *The Spell of the Hidden Gold* (1958), Actor
- *Varan* (1958), as Secretary of Defense
- *The H-Man* (1958), as Chief of Inspectors Kusuda
- *Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness* (1958), as Monk
- *Rodan! The Flying Monster* (1957), as Osaki
- *The Men of Toho-ku* (1957), Actor
- *A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister* (1957), Actor
- *The Living Koheiji* (1957), as Dressing room keeper
- *Last Days of the Samurai* (1957), Actor
- *Come Back Soon* (1957), Actor
- *Ôban* (1957), as Murata
- *A Town with a Mountain and River* (1957), as Old Doctor
- *Rodan* (1956), as Mining Chief Osaki
- *The Storm* (1956), Actor
- *Gendai no yokubô* (1956), Actor
- *The Underworld* (1956), Actor
- *The Maiden Courtesan* (1956), Actor
- *Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island* (1956), as (uncredited)
- *The Lone Journey* (1955), Actor
- *The Tears of Geisha Konatsu* (1955), Actor
- *School Girls in Costume* (1955), Actor
- *Godzilla Raids Again* (1955), as Chief of Civil Defense
- *All is Well* (1955), Actor
- *Jirocho in Disgrace* (1954), Actor
- *All of Myself* (1954), as Hizoko Kitamura
- *My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men* (1954), Actor
- *A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime* (1954), Actor
- *Omatsuri hanjiro* (1953), Actor
- *The Eagle of the Pacific* (1953), as (uncredited)
- *Murahachibu* (1953), Actor
- *Ikiru* (1952), as Subordinate Clerk Saito — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md)

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