Rentaro Mikuni
Born: 1923-01-20 in Ota, Gunma, Japan
Died: 2013-04-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rentaro Mikuni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2012
- Chronicle of My Mother as Hayato
2011
2009
- Free and Easy 20: Final
- Through the Mist as (archive footage)
2008
2007
2006
2005
- Free and Easy 16 as Suzuki
2004
2003
- Free and Easy 14 as Suzuki Ichinosuke
- The Wind Carpet as Kinta Nakata
2000
1999
- The Old Man and the Sea as (voice)
- Will to Live as Yasukichi
- Rainbow Cape
1998
- Free and Easy: Samurai Edition as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Free and Easy 10 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1997
- Free and Easy 9 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1996
- Oishinbo as Yuzan Kaibara
- Free and Easy 8 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1995
1994
- The Friends as Kihachi Denpo
- Free and Easy Special
- Turning Point as Urano
- Free and Easy 7
1993
- The Last Dance as Buhei Mukai
- Free and Easy 6 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Making of Daibyonin as Self
- Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto as Self
1992
- Basara: The Princess Goh as Junsai
- Luminous Moss as Headmaster / Captain
- Free and Easy 5 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1991
- My Sons as Akio Asano
- Free and Easy 4 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1990
- Free and Easy 3 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1989
- Rikyu as Rikyu
- Free and Easy 2 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1988
- Wuthering Heights as Takamaru
- Free and Easy as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- A Taxing Woman's Return as Teppei Onisawa
- The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return" as Self
1986
- A Human Promise as Ryôsaku Morimoto
- Beyond the Shining Sea as Takeya Oumi
1984
- The Street of Desire as Tadao Shimoda
- 子連れ狼
- The Fugitive Samurai
- Lone Wolf and Cub as Yagyū Retsudō
1983
- The Women of Osaka Castle as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1982
- The Go Masters as 松波麟作
1981
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Hajime Sandaiji
- Sekigahara as Masanobu Honda
- Rennyo and His Mother
- Auto Town
1980
- Nukata no Ōkimi
- Akai Shisen
- Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely as Hachiro Munakata
- The Bear Storm
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Shizuo Enokizu
- Nomugi Pass
1978
- Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu as Koichiro dojima
- Never Give Up as Kazunari Ohba
- August Without Emperor as Tameichiro Emi
- Kazoku Netsu
1977
- Mount Hakkoda as Major Yamada
- Sweet Revenge as Kinzo Otsuka
- The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
- The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao as Sunao Kikutake
1976
- Akai Unmei
- The Inugami Family as Sahei Inugami
- Barefoot Gen as Father
- The Possessed
1975
- Solar Eclipse as Conservative MP
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Masaoka
1974
- Himiko as Nashime
- Scalpel as Shiro Kikukawa
- The Tattered Banner as Shozo Tanaka
1973
- Coup d'Etat as Ikki Kita
- Deeper Than Blue as Yukiyoshi Tamiya
1972
- Professional Killers
- Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Zatoichi at Large as Boss Tetsugoro
- The Rendezvous as Detective Yamamuro
- Journey Into Solitude as Kunitaro Matsuda
- Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1971
- The Earth is Born Again as Eisuke Noda
- Shadow of Deception as Keitaro Nishida
- Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow as Shigata Komijiro
- Confessions Among Actresses as Minakawa
- Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death as Baiken Shishido
- 3,000 Kilometer Trap
1970
- Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny as Shigata Komijiro
- Duel at Fort Ezo as Shimbei Usa
- City of Beasts as Yusaku Ishihama
1969
- Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Kamo Serizawa
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Nekichi Futori
- Neon taiheiki
1967
- 剣 as Asaemon Yamada
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Asagoro
1966
- Captive's Island as Daigoku
- Glorious Fights as Genichiro Gunji
- The Threat as Misawa
- Thirst for Love as Tetsuya Ezaki
1965
- Kwaidan as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
- A Fugitive from the Past as Takichi Inukai
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Gisuke Hayashida
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Muneaki Takuan - Priest
- Tokyo Untouchable as Naoto Nishiyama
1964
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brother
- A Story from Echigo as Gonsuke Sabu
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Takuan
1963
- Tale of Army Brutality as Yahichi Inumaru
- Escape from Hell as Shinpei
- Futari dake no toride
- Zoku ôsho as Sakita Sankichi
- Tokyo Untouchable: Escape as Naoto, Nishiyama
- The Life of a Horse-Trader as 片山米太郎
- The Life of Rikisha-Man
1962
- Harakiri as Kageyu Saito
- The Escape
- The Broken Commandment as Rentaro Inoko
- The Christian Revolt as Uemonsaku
- The King
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Muneaki Takuan
- Umineko ga tonde
- Hell's Kitchen
1961
- The Catch as Kazumasa Takano
- Miyamoto Musashi as Muneaki Takuan
- City
- Run, Genta, Run!
- Fateful Birthplace
- Like Fire is My Life
1960
- Devotion to Railway as Yoshito Matsuzaki
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
- The Great Road
- The Stragglers
1959
- Thus Another Day as Kenzô Akada
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Newspaperman A
- A Dead Drifter
- The Song of the Cart
- The Murderer Must Die as Tetsuo Yazaki
1958
- Night Drum as Hikokurô Ogura
- Yoku
- The Outsiders as Takeshi Ohiwa
- Wind, Woman and Road as Sentaro
- Face in the Dark as Kijima
- The Undefeated Woman
1957
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Keizo Sasaki
- Stepbrothers as Hantaro Kido
- But the Flesh is Weak as Ichiro Kurakoshi
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Captain Inouye
- Ryûri no kishi
- Phoenix as (Uncredited)
- Crossroad as Shōgo Ise
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Dotanba
- Evil Reward
1955
1954
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Matahachi
- Farewell Rabaul as Captain Katase
- Turbid Youth
- Itsuko to sono haha as Yasukazu Sugi
- Women's House
- Good Son-in-Law
1953
- The Eagle of the Pacific as Staff Officer (uncredited)
- Wife as Tadashi Tanimura
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The burglar
- The Red Light Military Base as Koichi Kawanabe
- Escape Zone
- Husband and Wife as Ryota Takemura
- Koibito-tachi no iru machi
- Omatsuri hanjiro
- The Blue Revolution
- Reunion
- Aijô ni tsuite
- The Lovers as Sugawa
1952
- Sword for Hire as Tachibana Jurata
- Beauty and the Thief as Kuroki no Jiro
- Doctor's Day Off
- Shanghai Rose as Manabe, First lieutenant
- Adolescence as Teacher Harada
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- The Whisper of Spring
1951
- Beauty of Life
- The Good Fairy as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter
- Boyhood as Teacher Shimomura
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tsuyoshi Yabuki
- Story of Lightning