Kōji Mitsui
Age: N/A | From: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: 三井秀男 , Кодзи Мицуи
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
High and Low
(1963) Second Reporter
There Was a Father
(1942) Graduate
Early Spring
(1956) Hirayama
Fireworks Over the Sea
(1951) Moriyama
Woman in the Dunes
(1964) Village Elder
The Hidden Fortress
(1958) Guard (uncredited)
Scandal
(1950) Cameraman A
Floating Weeds
(1959) KichinosukeActing
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| 1972 | N/A | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
| 1970 | Foodstand owner | |
| 1969 | Yagi | |
| 1968 | Mr. Otagaki | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Old Journalist | ||
| 1966 | Mizorogi | |
| 1965 | Heikichi | |
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| Motojima | ||
| 1964 | Furui | |
| Village Elder | ||
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| 1963 | N/A | |
| Yabe Senjuro | ||
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| Second Reporter | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
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| Narcotics Control Agent Hayashi | ||
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| 1961 | N/A | |
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| Yasunosuke Fukuhara | ||
| Shuzo, Tomie's father | ||
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| Torikie | ||
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| Genji | ||
| 1960 | Reporter A | |
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| Hobara | ||
| 1959 | Kichinosuke | |
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| Man A | ||
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| Shopkeeper | ||
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| Furuya | ||
| 1958 | Guard (uncredited) | |
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| Nodaiko | ||
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| 1957 | N/A | |
| Yoshisaburo the Gambler | ||
| Mr. Kanemaki | ||
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| 1956 | N/A | |
| Tamekichi Kurita | ||
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| Hirayama | ||
| 1955 | 父長助 | |
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| 岡本五郎右衛門 | ||
| Iwakichi | ||
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| 1954 | N/A | |
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| 弥之助 | ||
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| 和尚廓念 | ||
| 1953 | N/A | |
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| 古門前の長次 | ||
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| 1952 | N/A | |
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| 1951 | Kodaira | |
| Moriyama | ||
| Shige | ||
| Oka | ||
| Kichitarō | ||
| 1950 | N/A | |
| Cameraman A | ||
| 1949 | Seki | |
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| 1948 | N/A | |
| Hideo | ||
| Yoshioka | ||
| 1946 | Gentarô | |
| 1945 | Kawanishi | |
| 1943 | N/A | |
| 1942 | N/A | |
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| Graduate | ||
| 1940 | N/A | |
| 1939 | N/A | |
| Kensuke Ide | ||
| 1938 | N/A | |
| 1935 | Hideo Nemoto | |
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| 1934 | Shinkichi | |
| Kousaku | ||
| Guest (at café) | ||
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| 1933 | Kitamura | |
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| Hiroshi | ||
| 1932 | Guy on bike | |
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