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Kōji Mitsui

Kōji Mitsui

Actor · Born 1910-03-06 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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Biography

Mitsui Koji ( March 6, 1910 - April 20, 1979 ) was a Japanese actor. His real name was Mitsui Hikohide. After the war, he played an active role as a supporting actor in films directed by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu . His former stage name was Mitsui Hideo. Changed his stage name to Mitsui Koji in Ozu's Hen in the Wind (1948) . His role as the playboy Kisaburo in Kurosawa Akira 's The Lower Depths (1957) won him the Best Supporting Actor award at the 12th Mainichi Film Awards and the 8th Blue Ribbon Awards, solidifying his status as a supporting actor. After going freelance in 1960, he worked not only in films but also in television dramas and on stage, but after undergoing surgery for a stomach ulcer in 1971, his health deteriorated and he scaled back his acting career. He died of heart failure on April 20, 1979 at a hospital in Kamakura. He was 69 years old.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. High and Low (1963) — Second Reporter
  2. The Hidden Fortress (1958) — Guard (uncredited)
  3. Woman in the Dunes (1964) — Village Elder
  4. Red Beard (1965) — Heikichi
  5. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) — Furuya
  6. The Bad Sleep Well (1960) — Reporter A
  7. Floating Weeds (1959) — Kichinosuke
  8. Dodes'ka-den (1970) — Foodstand owner
  9. The Lower Depths (1957) — Yoshisaburo the Gambler
  10. Scandal (1950) — Cameraman A
  11. Early Spring (1956) — Hirayama
  12. There Was a Father (1942) — Graduate
  13. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) — Shinkichi
  14. A Hen in the Wind (1948) — Hideo
  15. A Fugitive from the Past (1965) — Motojima
  16. Japan's Longest Day (1967) — Old Journalist
  17. Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968) — Mr. Otagaki
  18. Love Letter (1953)
  19. The Inheritance (1962)
  20. Dragnet Girl (1933) — Hiroshi
  21. Carmen Comes Home (1951) — Oka
  22. The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
  23. A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) — Kousaku
  24. No Blood Relation (1932) — Guy on bike
  25. I Will Buy You (1956) — Tamekichi Kurita
  26. The Battle of Okinawa (1971)
  27. Killers on Parade (1961)
  28. Young Swordsman (1963) — Yabe Senjuro
  29. Street Without End (1934) — Guest (at café)
  30. Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959) — Shopkeeper
  31. Thus Another Day (1959) — Man A
  32. Fireworks Over the Sea (1951) — Moriyama
  33. Here Is a Spring (1955)
  34. Victory Song (1945) — Kawanishi
  35. Mother Country (1962)
  36. Epitaph to My Love (1961) — Torikie
  37. Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)
  38. Always in My Heart (1953)
  39. Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
  40. The Body (1962)