
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 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.
Acting (124 movies)

The Inner Palace Conspiracy
1951

The Hidden Fortress
1958

Hikkoshi yatsure
1961

No Blood Relation
1932

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959

The Bad Sleep Well
1960

Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949

The Lower Depths
1957

High and Low
1963

Epitaph to My Love
1961

Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962

Otoko no Uta
1962

Zoku aizen katsura
1962

A Story of Floating Weeds
1934

Woman in the Dunes
1964

Floating Weeds
1959

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1968

Carmen Comes Home
1951

I Will Buy You
1956

A Fugitive from the Past
1965

The Thick-Walled Room
1956

A Mother Should Be Loved
1934

The Body
1962

Sumida River
1942

Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
1953

慶安水滸傳
1954

Beautiful Tengu
1954

The Greatest Challenge of All
1967

Ejima and Ikushima
1955

A Hen in the Wind
1948

元祿美少年記
1955

Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
1954

Koko ni otoko ari
1959

Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962

Haha o tataeru uta
1939

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1954

Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954

A Hero of Tokyo
1935

A Roaring Trade
1962

Dragnet Girl
1933

The Boss's Son at College
1933

Red Beard
1965

Dodes'ka-den
1970

Our Planes Fly South
1943

Scandal
1950

Street Without End
1934

Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1958

Five Men of Edo
1951

The Inheritance
1962

Irohanihoheto
1960

Here Is a Spring
1955

Chutaro of Banba
1955

With Wife, Children, and Friends
1961

Love Letter
1953

Firefly Light
1958

The Battle of Okinawa
1971

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1957

Thus Another Day
1959

Killers on Parade
1961

The Genealogy of Women
1934

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959

Victory Song
1945

Young Swordsman
1963

Lumberjack and Lady
1935

Great X
1948

The Unbalanced Wheel
1957

Gang vs. Gang
1962

Tokyo Bay
1962

Drunkard's Paradise
1962

How to Make Money
1964

Incidental Murders
1961

Happy Times
1933

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948

Tokyo Omnibus
1959

Hadashi no hanayome
1962

Legends of Honor
1963

Hot Corner Murder
1960

Weeping Doll
1951

Tange Sazen
1952

A Fool's Love
1949

Our Miyo-chan
1969

Always in My Heart
1953

Always in My Heart Part 2
1953

Maria of the Ant Village
1958

The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942

A Bridge for Two Alone
1958

Times of Joy and Sorrow
1957

Only She Knows
1960

The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956

A Case of Honor
1957

There Was a Father
1942

The Honest Fool
1964

Fireworks Over the Sea
1951

Mother Country
1962

The Layabout and Seabathing
1933

Early Spring
1956

Spring Thunder
1939

Japan's No. 1 Braggart
1964

Iroha Elegy
1955

Our Chief, Our Doctor
1952
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