Akio Isono
Age: N/A | From: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: 礒野秋雄
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 12
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
Akio Isono (October 20, 1910 – January 21, 1986) was born in Tsurumi, near Yokohama in 1910. His family ran a newspaper sales business. In 1917, at the age of seven, he became a pupil of Hanayanagi Shotaro, who was known as a great actor of the new school, and trod the boards for the first time in child roles at the Hongoza theater. After that he went on to perform in theaters run by Shochiku. In 1921, he performed in his first leading film role in Yamagureru under the direction of Ushihara Kiyohiko, and he then alternated leading roles on the stage with those at Shochiku Pictures. In 1925, he became an exclusive actor for Shochiku Cinema, Kamata Studios and starred in a number of films. Isono, together with Mitsui Hideo and Abe Shozaburo, won great popularity as the Yotamono Trio. The Yotamono Trio appeared in a series of movies, beginning with the 1931 film Reijo to Yotamono. In 1932, his excellent performance in the film Arashi no Naka no Shojo, directed by Shimazu Yasujiro, won great critical acclaim. In 1943, he left Shochiku and joined the theater company Warai no Okoku. After the war, he continued to appear in supporting roles, mainly for Shochiku, but from the late 1960s he began appearing exclusively in TV dramas. His gentle and humorous acting style won him great acclaim. He died of lung cancer at 8:18 a.m. on January 21, 1986, at the Ofuna Kyosai Hospital in Totsuka Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 75 years old.
Most Famous Work
Ultra Q
(1966) Taro's Father
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
(1959) (uncredited)
The Masseurs and a Woman
(1938) Hiking Student
Street Without End
(1934) Koichi, her younger brother
I Will Buy You
(1956) Saburô Kurita
Apart from You
(1933) Yoshio
The Rose on His Arm
(1956) Neighbour on the left, Mister
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
(1934) SeijiActing
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| 1966 | Taro's Father | |
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| 1959 | N/A | |
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| 1957 | N/A | |
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| 1956 | Saburô Kurita | |
| Neighbour on the left, Mister | ||
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| 1955 | 仲間春蔵 | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
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| 1953 | N/A | |
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| 1952 | N/A | |
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| 1951 | Ichiro Aoyama | |
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| 1949 | Kurosuke | |
| 1946 | N/A | |
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| 1940 | N/A | |
| Uematsu, Privete 1st Class | ||
| 1939 | N/A | |
| 1938 | Hiking Student | |
| 1937 | Senkichi | |
| Ishida | ||
| 1936 | N/A | |
| 1935 | N/A | |
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| 1934 | Seiji | |
| Koichi, her younger brother | ||
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| 1933 | N/A | |
| Yoshio | ||
| 1932 | N/A | |
| 1923 | N/A | |
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