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
- Through the Mist as (archive footage)
- Free and Easy 20: Final
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 10 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Free and Easy: Samurai Edition 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 7
- Free and Easy Special
- Turning Point as Urano
1993
- The Last Dance as Buhei Mukai
- Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto as Self
- Free and Easy 6 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Making of Daibyonin 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
- A Taxing Woman's Return as Teppei Onisawa
- Free and Easy as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return" as Self
1986
- Beyond the Shining Sea as Takeya Oumi
- A Human Promise as Ryôsaku Morimoto
1984
- The Street of Desire as Tadao Shimoda
- The Fugitive Samurai
- 子連れ狼
- 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
- Sekigahara as Masanobu Honda
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Hajime Sandaiji
- Auto Town
- Rennyo and His Mother
1980
- Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely as Hachiro Munakata
- Nukata no Ōkimi
- Akai Shisen
- 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
- Sweet Revenge as Kinzo Otsuka
- Mount Hakkoda as Major Yamada
- 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
- Waga seishun no toki
- 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
- Journey Into Solitude as Kunitaro Matsuda
- The Rendezvous as Detective Yamamuro
- Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1971
- Confessions Among Actresses as Minakawa
- Shadow of Deception as Keitaro Nishida
- 3,000 Kilometer Trap
- The Earth is Born Again as Eisuke Noda
- Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death as Baiken Shishido
- Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow as Shigata Komijiro
1970
- Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny as Shigata Komijiro
- City of Beasts as Yusaku Ishihama
- Duel at Fort Ezo as Shimbei Usa
1969
- Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Kamo Serizawa
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Nekichi Futori
- Neon taiheiki
1967
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Asagoro
- 剣 as Asaemon Yamada
1966
- Captive's Island as Daigoku
- The Threat as Misawa
- Glorious Fights as Genichiro Gunji
- Thirst for Love as Tetsuya Ezaki
1965
- Kwaidan as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
- A Fugitive from the Past as Takichi Inukai
- Tokyo Untouchable as Naoto Nishiyama
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Muneaki Takuan - Priest
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Gisuke Hayashida
1964
- A Story from Echigo as Gonsuke Sabu
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brother
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Takuan
1963
- Zoku ôsho as Sakita Sankichi
- Escape from Hell as Shinpei
- Tale of Army Brutality as Yahichi Inumaru
- Futari dake no toride
- The Life of a Horse-Trader as 片山米太郎
- The Life of Rikisha-Man
- Tokyo Untouchable: Escape as Naoto, Nishiyama
1962
- Harakiri as Kageyu Saito
- The Broken Commandment as Rentaro Inoko
- Hell's Kitchen
- The Christian Revolt as Uemonsaku
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Muneaki Takuan
- The Escape
- The King
- Umineko ga tonde
1961
- Miyamoto Musashi as Muneaki Takuan
- The Catch as Kazumasa Takano
- Fateful Birthplace
- Run, Genta, Run!
- City
- Like Fire is My Life
1960
- The Stragglers
- Devotion to Railway as Yoshito Matsuzaki
- The Great Road
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
1959
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Newspaperman A
- Thus Another Day as Kenzô Akada
- The Song of the Cart
- The Murderer Must Die as Tetsuo Yazaki
- A Dead Drifter
1958
- Wind, Woman and Road as Sentaro
- The Undefeated Woman
- Night Drum as Hikokurô Ogura
- Yoku
- The Outsiders as Takeshi Ohiwa
- Face in the Dark as Kijima
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
- Wandering Shore
- Crossroad as Shōgo Ise
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Dotanba
- Phoenix as Film actor (uncredited)
- 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
- Wife as Tadashi Tanimura
- The Lovers as Sugawa
- The Blue Revolution
- The Eagle of the Pacific as Staff Officer (uncredited)
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The burglar
- About Love
- The Red Light Military Base as Koichi Kawanabe
- Koibito-tachi no iru machi
- Husband and Wife as Ryota Takemura
- Omatsuri hanjiro
- Escape Zone
- Reunion
1952
- Beauty and the Thief as Kuroki no Jiro
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Shanghai Rose as Manabe, First lieutenant
- Sword for Hire as Tachibana Jurata
- Doctor's Day Off
- The Whisper of Spring
- Adolescence as Teacher Harada
1951
- The Good Fairy as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter
- Boyhood as Teacher Shimomura
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tsuyoshi Yabuki
- Story of Lightning
- Beauty of Life