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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