was a Japanese stage and film actor. Between the early 1930s and late 1980s, he appeared in over 80 films by directors such as Masaki Kobayashi, Kon Ichikawa, Kaneto Shindō, Tadashi Imai and Yasuzō Masumura.
Biography Kinzō Shin was born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Prefectural First Commercial School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Daiichi Commercial High School), he first joined the Toho Sayoku Gekijo before becoming a co-founder of the Shinkyo Gekidan, both left-wing theatre groups. Following the forced dissolution of the Shinkyo Gekidan by the authorities, he formed the Mizuho Gekidan company together with Jūkichi Uno and others. After World War II, he was active in the Mingei Theatre Company and the Haiyuza Theatre Company.
After sporadic film appearances in the 1930s, he frequently acted in films since the late 1940s and on television starting in the mid-1950s.
Filmography (selected) 1950: Listen to the Voices of the Sea, dir. Hideo Sekigawa 1953: Hiroshima, dir. Hideo Sekigawa 1953: Tower of Lilies, dir. Tadashi Imai 1953: The Thick-Walled Room, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (released 1956) 1954: Dobu, dir. Kaneto Shindō 1955: Princess Yang Kwei Fei, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi 1955: Wolf, dir. Kaneto Shindō 1957: Tokyo Twilight, dir. Yasujirō Ozu 1957: The Blue Sky Maiden, dir. Yasuzō Masumura 1958: Giants and Toys, dir. Yasuzō Masumura 1958: Conflagration, dir. Kon Ichikawa 1963: Youth of the Beast, dir. Seijun Suzuki 1964: Revenge, dir. Tadashi Imai 1964: The Long Death, dir. Kei Kumai (starring role as Sadamichi Hirasawa) 1966: Captive's Island, dir. Masahiro Shinoda 1967: Clouds at Sunset, dir. Masahiro Shinoda 1968: The Man Without a Map, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara 1974: Castle of Sand, dir. Yoshitarō Nomura 1981: Willful Murder, dir. Kei Kumai
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