Stray Dog – Akira Kurosawa (1949)
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa (1952)
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island – Hiroshi Inagaki (1956)
Throne of Blood – Akira Kurosawa (1957)
The Lower Depths – Akira Kurosawa (1957)
The Hidden Fortress – Akira Kurosawa (1958)
The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity – Masaki Kobayashi (1959)
Their Own World – Tomu Uchida (1959)
Killing in Yoshiwara – Tomu Uchida (1960)
Yakuza of Ina – Masahiro Makino (1960)
High and Low – Akira Kurosawa (1963)

(Key films outside the jidai-geki genre are listed in gray)

A favorite performer of Akira Kurosawa, Chiaki left an indeliable mark as the priest in Rashomon, the light-hearted, wood-chopping Heihachi in Seven Samurai, and half of the bickering peasant duo in The Hidden Fortress.