Kokuten Kōdō (高堂 国典, Kōdō Kokuten, 29 January 1887 – 22 January 1960), real name Tanigawa Saichirō (谷川 佐市郎), was a Japanese film actor.

He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.

Kōdō first began acting on the stage in 1901 in shinpa dramas.

[1] He joined the Teikine studio in 1923, and after the war, the Toho Studio.

[1] He appeared in numerous films by Akira Kurosawa, most notably in Seven Samurai as the village elder.