Kōji Mitsui

Known for ActingBorn 1910-03-06Died 1979-07-20Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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.Read more

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Typhoon Furor

元祿美少年記

The Vassal's Neck

Tange Sazen

Okinu and Banto

The Genealogy of Women

The Father and His Son

Legends of Honor

Fox and Raccoon

Tabi sugata nezumi kozō

Firefly Light

Times of Joy and Sorrow

Seishun no oto

Christ in Bronze

Crazy Uproar

Onna no ryūkō

A Fool's Love

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

Children of the Sun

High and Low

Woman in the Dunes

Red Beard

Here Is a Spring

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Honest Fool

Japan's No. 1 Braggart

Maria of the Ant Village

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

The Hidden Fortress

The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations

Our Chief, Our Doctor

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

The Battle of Okinawa

Epitaph to My Love

The Layabout and Seabathing

The Bad Sleep Well

Floating Weeds

Lucky Dragon No. 5

Early Spring

A Fugitive from the Past

The Body

Gang vs. Gang

Japan's Longest Day

The Inheritance

The Boss's Son at College

Dodes'ka-den

Great Jailbreak

The Thick-Walled Room