​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Yoshio Inaba (稲葉 義男 Inaba Yoshio, July 15, 1920–April 20, 1998) was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured, second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoshio , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.