Cast & creator
Kōji Mitsui
Best known for High and Low, Red Beard, Woman in the Dunes
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.
Also known as: 三井秀男, Кодзи Мицуи, Mitsui Hideo
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1929–1975 · acting roles
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Filmography (143)
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High and Low
Second Reporter
1963
Red Beard
Heikichi
1965
Woman in the Dunes
Village Elder
1964
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Furuya
1959
Horeruna Yanpachi
1956
Dodes'ka-den
Foodstand owner
1970
The Hidden Fortress
Guard (uncredited)
1958
The Bad Sleep Well
Reporter A
1960
Floating Weeds
Kichinosuke
1959
The Battle of Okinawa
Old Man
1971
Japan's Longest Day
Old Journalist
1967
Ejima and Ikushima
岡本五郎右衛門
1955
The Lower Depths
Yoshisaburo the Gambler
1957
Early Spring
Hirayama
1956Avalanche
1952
Jōen no hatoba
1951
Love Letter
1953
Scandal
Cameraman A
1950
Tokyo is a Fine Place
1957
A Fugitive from the Past
Motojima
1965
The Inheritance
1962
元祿美少年記
父長助
1955
There Was a Father
Graduate
1942
A Case of Honor
1957
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Shopkeeper
1959
A Story of Floating Weeds
Shinkichi
1934I Am a Medical Examiner
1964
Great Jailbreak
1975
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Carmen Comes Home
Oka
1951
Fox and Raccoon
Hangoro Iizuka
1959
A Hen in the Wind
Hideo
1948
Epitaph to My Love
Torikie
1961
Five Men of Edo
Kodaira
1951
Dragnet Girl
Hiroshi
1933
Irohanihoheto
1960
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957
The Thick-Walled Room
Nishimura
1956
Sound of Youth
1956
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962
Beautiful Tengu
弥之助
1954
Weeping Doll
Shige
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
Moriyama
1951
Our Chief, Our Doctor
1952
Jealousy
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
Crazy Uproar
1950
Tange Sazen
1952
A Tale of Dung and Urine
1957
A Fool's Love
Seki
1949
Great X
Yoshioka
1948
Japan's No. 1 Braggart
Furui
1964
Mother Country
1962
Young Guy in Hawaii
1963
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Mr. Otagaki
1968
Tokyo Bay
Narcotics Control Agent Hayashi
1962
Killers on Parade
1961
Firefly Light
1958
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
Thus Another Day
Man A
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Koi no gashū
Shuzo, Tomie's father
1961
The Body
1962
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1957
Beyond the Rainbow
1972
Here Is a Spring
1955
Hijō no otoko
1961
Street Without End
Guest (at café)
1934
Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
1954
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Mr. Kanemaki
1957
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1958
Gang vs. Gang
1962
Aoi kairyū
1961
Victory Song
Kawanishi
1945Children of the Sun
1938
Young Swordsman
Yabe Senjuro
1963
A Roaring Trade
1962
Otoko no Uta
1962
Lumberjack and Lady
1935
Sumida River
1942The Actress and the Detective
1950
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
Hikkoshi yatsure
1961
Incidental Murders
Genji
1961
Banana
1960
Hibi no haishin
1958
Christ in Bronze
Iwakichi
1955
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Kichitarō
1951
Only She Knows
1960
I Will Buy You
Tamekichi Kurita
1956
Chutaro of Banba
1955
Okinu and Banto
1940
Police Precinct Part 8
1958
Headquarters of Crime Detection
1956
The Last Trump Card
Yaichi Saito
1960
The Honest Fool
1964
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958
Ohana han
Mizorogi
1966
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942
The Layabout and Seabathing
1933Iki na fûraibô
Gentarô
1946
Onna no ryūkō
1950
Koko ni otoko ari
1959
Punch Guy
1966
Salaryman's Medal
1965
Typhoon Furor
1956
With Wife, Children, and Friends
1961
No Blood Relation
Guy on bike
1932
Legends of Honor
1963
A Bridge for Two Alone
1958
Spring Thunder
Kensuke Ide
1939
Always in My Heart
1953The Vassal's Neck
1955
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1932
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1958
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the Green Grass
1954Furimuita hanayome
Yasunosuke Fukuhara
1961
Maria of the Ant Village
1958
Hadashi no hanayome
1962
Iroha Elegy
1955
How to Make Money
1964
A Mother Should Be Loved
Kousaku
1934The Father and His Son
1929
Hot Corner Murder
Hobara
1960
Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
古門前の長次
1953
A Hero of Tokyo
Hideo Nemoto
1935
慶安水滸傳
和尚廓念
1954
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956
Before the Wedding
1933
Kigeki: Kane no naru ki ni koi ga saku
1961Botchan
Nodaiko
1958
Our Planes Fly South
1943
Our Miyo-chan
Yagi
1969
Haha o tataeru uta
1939
The Boss's Son at College
Kitamura
1933
The Genealogy of Women
1934
Happy Times
1933
Field Army Orchestra
Murakami
1944