Kōji Mitsui

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-03-06 (69 years old)

Deathday

1979-07-20

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Kōji Mitsui

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 dram...

Acting

1958

The Hidden Fortress

as Guard (uncredited)

1932

No Blood Relation

as Guy on bike

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Reporter A

1957

The Lower Depths

as Yoshisaburo the Gambler

1963

High and Low

as Second Reporter

1961

1964

Woman in the Dunes

as Village Elder

1959

Floating Weeds

as Kichinosuke

1946

Iki na fûraibô

as Gentarô

1956

I Will Buy You

as Tamekichi Kurita

1953

Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha

as 古門前の長次

1954

慶安水滸傳

as 和尚廓念

1954

Beautiful Tengu

as 弥之助

1955

Ejima and Ikushima

as 岡本五郎右衛門

1948

1955

元祿美少年記

as 父長助

1935

A Hero of Tokyo

as Hideo Nemoto

1933

Dragnet Girl

as Hiroshi

1965

Red Beard

as Heikichi

1970

Dodes'ka-den

as Foodstand owner

1950

Scandal

as Cameraman A

1934

Street Without End

as Guest (at café)

1951

Five Men of Edo

as Kodaira

1958

Botchan

as Nodaiko

1961

Furimuita hanayome

as Yasunosuke Fukuhara

1959

1955

Christ in Bronze

as Iwakichi

1945

Victory Song

as Kawanishi

1963

Young Swordsman

as Yabe Senjuro

1948

Great X

as Yoshioka

1962

Tokyo Bay

as Narcotics Control Agent Hayashi

1961

1960

1951

Weeping Doll

as Shige

1949

1969

1957

1942

1951

1956

Early Spring

as Hirayama

1939

Spring Thunder

as Kensuke Ide

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Old Journalist

1961

Koi no gashū

as Shuzo, Tomie's father

1966

Ohana han

as Mizorogi

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