Seiji Miyaguchi
Born: 1913-11-15 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1985-04-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Seiji Miyaguchi (宮口 精二 Miyaguchi Seiji, November 15, 1913–April 12, 1985) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman) despite the actor's confession to have never handled a sword before the role, Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. He died of lung cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seiji Miyaguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1984
- Mermaid Legend as Tatsuo
- Farewell to the Ark as Old man
- Antonio Gaudí as Boada (voice)
1983
- White Snake Enchantment as Jikan
1982
- The Challenge as Old Man
- Lake of Illusions as Yoshikane Nagao
1980
- Shōgun as Muraji
1975
- The Fossil as Sunami
- Aoi sanmyaku as Mr. Okamoto
1974
1972
- Tora-san's Dear Old Home as Shukichi
1970
- The Militarists as Shinegori Togo
1968
- Admiral Yamamoto as Ito
- My Brother, My Love as Ginsaku Kitagawa
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Den'nosuke Kakishima
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu)
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
- Pomegranate Time as Naokichi Kuwata
- River of Forever
1965
- Kwaidan as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Samurai Spy as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
- The Start of Life as Tatsugoro Ishiguro
- Song of Farewell as Masao Nomura
- Start Here as Old Man
- Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon as Dr. Gulliver (voice)
- The Dedicated Gunman
1964
- Pale Flower as Funada
- Intentions of Murder as Genji Miyata
- Samurai from Nowhere as Tatewaki Komuro
- Raised in a Palace as Tsukada
- Night Scandal in Japan as Detective Tasaka
- Warrior of the Wind
- Night Scandal as Daizo Suzuki
- The Enforcer
- The Naked Executive as Heikichi Hamanaka
- Our Happiness Alone
- Fumiko's Five Benefactors as Detective (uncredited)
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)
1963
- The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji as Shūhei Isomura
- A House in the Quarter as Sanzaemon Katagiri
- Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Takichiro Sada
- Escape from Hell as Usuke
- Mother as Doctor
- Youth After School as Shinkichi Yamaguchi
1962
- The Inheritance as Yoshida
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
- Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- The Broken Commandment as School master
- Anything For Success
1961
- Enraptured
- Miyamoto Musashi as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
- Structure of Hate
- That Guy and I
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Public Prosecutor Okakura
- Ah Special Attack Corps
- The Twilight Story
- Deep River Melody
- Goodbye to Glory as Hikocho
- Irohanihoheto
- Get 'em All as Takahashi
- 最後の切札
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Kyôritsu Ô
- The Most Valuable Wife as Rintaro Nonomiya
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- Jōen
- A Secret Rendezvous as Yuichiro
- Farewell to Spring as Akira's father
- Someday I'll Know as Masao Shiroyama
- Tokyo Omnibus
1958
- Stakeout as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective
- The Rickshaw Man
- The Ballad of Narayama as Matayan
- Accomplice
- Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
- The Spell of the Hidden Gold as Senjuro Takebe
- In Self-Defense
1957
- Throne of Blood as Phantom samurai
- Tokyo Twilight as Policeman
- Black River as Kin
- Untamed Woman as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother
- The Story of Pure Love
- 悪魔の顔
- Night Butterflies
- A Dangerous Hero
- Hateful Things
1956
- Early Spring as Yuzo Miura
- Flowing as Namie's Uncle
- The Underworld
- Punishment Room
- Samurai of the Great Earth
- Will-o'-the-Wisp
1955
- Frame of Snow as Ishiyama (Engineer)
1954
- Seven Samurai as Kyuzo
- The Street Without Sun as Okimi's father
1953
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- The Last Embrace as Gangster
1952
- Ikiru as Yakuza Boss
1951
- Early Summer as Nishiwaki
- The Good Fairy as Assistant editor
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Gunzo Ishiguro
- Beauty of Life
1945
- Sanshiro Sugata Part Two as Kohei Tsuzaki