Yoshio Inaba(1920-1998)
- Actor
Japanese character actor who achieved his greatest acclaim in the role
of "Gorobei" in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (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.
