Seiji Miyaguchi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-11-14 (72 years old)

Deathday

1985-04-12

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Seiji Miyaguchi

Biography

Seiji Miyaguchi (宮口 精二 Miyaguchi Seiji, November 15, 1913–April 12, 1985) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman) despite the actor's confession to have never handled a sword before the role, Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. He died of lung cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seiji Miyaguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1965

Kwaidan

as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

1975

Aoi sanmyaku

as Mr. Okamoto

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Public Prosecutor Okakura

1963

Youth After School

as Shinkichi Yamaguchi

1958

Stakeout

as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective

1963

Mother

as Doctor

1964

Pale Flower

as Funada

1964

Fumiko's Five Benefactors

as Detective (uncredited)

1945

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

as Kohei Tsuzaki

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

1965

Samurai Spy

as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa

1951

Early Summer

as Nishiwaki

1964

The Naked Executive

as Heikichi Hamanaka

1964

Night Scandal

as Daizo Suzuki

1963

1967

Pomegranate Time

as Naokichi Kuwata

1957

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

as Tatewaki Komuro

1962

The Broken Commandment

as School master

1984

1964

Night Scandal in Japan

as Detective Tasaka

1970

The Militarists

as Shinegori Togo

1959

1982

The Challenge

as Old Man

1952

Ikiru

as Yakuza Boss

1957

Throne of Blood

as Phantom samurai

1984

1964

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)

1956

Flowing

as Namie's Uncle

1962

The Inheritance

as Yoshida

1964

1951

The Good Fairy

as Assistant editor

1959

Farewell to Spring

as Akira's father

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Takichiro Sada

1958

1953

The Last Embrace

as Gangster

1965

Song of Farewell

as Masao Nomura

1963

A House in the Quarter

as Sanzaemon Katagiri

1960

1984

Antonio Gaudí

as Boada (voice)

1961

Miyamoto Musashi

as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke

1960

Get 'em All

as Takahashi

1965

The Start of Life

as Tatsugoro Ishiguro

1975

The Fossil

as Sunami

1959

Someday I'll Know

as Masao Shiroyama

1963

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

as Shūhei Isomura

1968

My Brother, My Love

as Ginsaku Kitagawa

1964

Intentions of Murder

as Genji Miyata

1959

The Most Valuable Wife

as Rintaro Nonomiya

1957

Tokyo Twilight

as Policeman

1957

Untamed Woman

as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

as Gunzo Ishiguro

1954

1982

Lake of Illusions

as Yoshikane Nagao

1965

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

as Dr. Gulliver (voice)

1954

The Street Without Sun

as Okimi's father

1956

Early Spring

as Yuzo Miura

1959

1968

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

as Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu)

1968

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

as Den'nosuke Kakishima

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