| Intro | Godfather or kumicho of the Kishimoto-gumi |
| Was |
Criminal Mobster Gangster |
| From | Japan |
| Type | Crime |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 15 May 1928, Kōbe |
| Death |
17 January 2014 (aged 85 years) |
Saizō Kishimoto (岸本才三, Kishimoto Saizō, May 15, 1928 – January 17, 2014) was a Japanese gangster.
Born in Kobe, he joined the Japanese Imperial Navy air squadron during World War II. After the war, he became a city employee of the Kobe City Office. In 1955, he joined a clan with Yakuza leader Nakayama Yoshikazu under a branch of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Over the next 40 years, he rose up the ladder in his gang and held the rank of sō-honbuchō, the headquarters chief of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
In late 2005, he was named leader of a more recent Yamaguchi-gumi clan, called the Hanshin-kai. He was also the godfather or kumichō of the Kishimoto-gumi.