Kōji Mitsui
Acting
Born 1910-03-06
Died 1979-07-20
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
140 credits
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor 1
Awards
Won 1 Blue Ribbon for Best Supporting Actor Award
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor 1 won
- 1958 Best Supporting Actor Won
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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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Filmography
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Acting
34 credits
High and Low
Woman in the Dunes
The Hidden Fortress
Red Beard
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Bad Sleep Well
The Battle of Okinawa
Dodes'ka-den
Floating Weeds
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Epitaph to My Love
There Was a Father
Japan's Longest Day
Early Spring
A Fugitive from the Past
The Lower Depths
Weeping Doll
A Hen in the Wind
Scandal
A Story of Floating Weeds
Five Men of Edo
Dragnet Girl
Ejima and Ikushima
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Times of Joy and Sorrow
元祿美少年記
Carmen Comes Home
Street Without End
Victory Song
Fireworks Over the Sea
Thus Another Day
Young Swordsman
Fox and Raccoon
A Mother Should Be Loved
Other credits
26 credits
Drunkard's Paradise
Crazy Uproar
Our Chief, Our Doctor
The Unbalanced Wheel
Love Letter
Only She Knows
Sumida River
Okinu and Banto
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Lumberjack and Lady
The Inheritance
Always in My Heart Part 2
Maria of the Ant Village
The Actress and the Detective
Gang vs. Gang
A Case of Honor
Great Jailbreak
Always in My Heart
The Thick-Walled Room
Young Guy in Hawaii
Killers on Parade
A Bridge for Two Alone
Sound of Youth
Hadashi no hanayome
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Banana
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