Kōji Mitsui
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.
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
0
The Hidden Fortress
8
Hikkoshi yatsure
0
No Blood Relation
7.067
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.1
The Bad Sleep Well
7.693
Ishimatsu of the Forest
0
The Lower Depths
7.063
High and Low
8.347
Epitaph to My Love
7
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
0
Otoko no Uta
0
Zoku aizen katsura
0
A Story of Floating Weeds
7.123
Woman in the Dunes
8.2
Floating Weeds
7.5
Iki na fûraibô
0
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
6.9
Carmen Comes Home
6.2
I Will Buy You
7
A Fugitive from the Past
7.5
The Thick-Walled Room
7.1
A Mother Should Be Loved
6.071
The Body
6.5
Sumida River
0
Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
0
慶安水滸傳
0
Beautiful Tengu
0
The Greatest Challenge of All
7
Ejima and Ikushima
0
A Hen in the Wind
7.1
元祿美少年記
0
Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
0
Koko ni otoko ari
0
Shin kitsune to tanuki
0
Haha o tataeru uta
0
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
0
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
0
A Hero of Tokyo
5
A Roaring Trade
0
Dragnet Girl
6.7
The Boss's Son at College
7
Red Beard
8.1
Dodes'ka-den
7
Our Planes Fly South
0
Scandal
6.9
Street Without End
6.6
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
0
Five Men of Edo
5
The Inheritance
7.2
Irohanihoheto
0
Here Is a Spring
7.333
Botchan
0
Chutaro of Banba
5
Love Letter
6.771
With Wife, Children, and Friends
0
Firefly Light
0
The Battle of Okinawa
7.5
Furimuita hanayome
0
The Vassal's Neck
0
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
6
Thus Another Day
5.6
Killers on Parade
6.2
The Genealogy of Women
0
Christ in Bronze
0
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.7
Children of the Sun
0
Victory Song
5.2
Young Swordsman
6.5
Lumberjack and Lady
4
Great X
0
The Unbalanced Wheel
0
Gang vs. Gang
7
Tokyo Bay
7
Drunkard's Paradise
0
How to Make Money
0
Incidental Murders
5
Happy Times
0
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
0
Tokyo Omnibus
0
Hadashi no hanayome
0
Legends of Honor
0
Hot Corner Murder
0
Weeping Doll
0
Tange Sazen
0
A Fool's Love
0
Our Miyo-chan
0
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5
Always in My Heart
6.8
Maria of the Ant Village
0
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
0
A Bridge for Two Alone
0
Times of Joy and Sorrow
9
Only She Knows
0
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
8
A Case of Honor
0
There Was a Father
6.954
The Honest Fool
0
Fireworks Over the Sea
5
Mother Country
6.5
The Layabout and Seabathing
0
Early Spring
7.523
Spring Thunder
0
Japan's No. 1 Braggart
0
Iroha Elegy
0
Our Chief, Our Doctor
0
Great Jailbreak
7
The Young Ace in Hawaii
0
Typhoon
0
Police Precinct Part 8
0
Japan's Longest Day
7.125
Okinu and Banto
0
Crazy Uproar
0
Beyond the Rainbow
0
Lucky Dragon No. 5
7.3
Salaryman's Medal
0
刑事部屋
0
Hijō no otoko
0
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
0
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
0
Koi no gashū
0
Ohana han
0
Hibi no haishin
0
Fox and Raccoon
0