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
- Turning Point as Urano
- The Friends as Kihachi Denpo
- Free and Easy 7
- Free and Easy Special
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
- 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
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Hajime Sandaiji
- Sekigahara as Masanobu Honda
- Auto Town
- Rennyo and His Mother
1980
- Nukata no Ōkimi
- Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely as Hachiro Munakata
- Akai Shisen
- The Bear Storm
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Shizuo Enokizu
- Nomugi Pass
1978
- Never Give Up as Kazunari Ohba
- Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu as Koichiro dojima
- 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
- The Possessed
- Barefoot Gen as Father
1975
- Solar Eclipse as Conservative MP
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Masaoka
1974
- Himiko as Nashime
- The Tattered Banner as Shozo Tanaka
- Scalpel as Shiro Kikukawa
1973
- Coup d'Etat as Ikki Kita
- Deeper Than Blue as Yukiyoshi Tamiya
1972
- Professional Killers
- Nemuri Kyoshiro
- Journey Into Solitude as Kunitaro Matsuda
- The Rendezvous as Detective Yamamuro
- Zatoichi at Large as Boss Tetsugoro
- Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1971
- Confessions Among Actresses as Minakawa
- Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow as Shigata Komijiro
- The Earth is Born Again as Eisuke Noda
- Shadow of Deception as Keitaro Nishida
- 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
- 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
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Muneaki Takuan - Priest
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Gisuke Hayashida
- Tokyo Untouchable as Naoto Nishiyama
1964
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Takuan
- Wolves, Pigs & Men as Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brother
- A Story from Echigo as Gonsuke Sabu
1963
- Tale of Army Brutality as Yahichi Inumaru
- Escape from Hell as Shinpei
- 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
- Zoku ôsho as Sakita Sankichi
1962
- Harakiri as Kageyu Saito
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Muneaki Takuan
- The Broken Commandment as Rentaro Inoko
- The King
- The Escape
- Shiro Amakusa: The Christian Rebel as Uemonsaku
- Umineko ga tonde
- Hell's Kitchen
1961
- Miyamoto Musashi as Muneaki Takuan
- The Catch as Kazumasa Takano
- Fateful Birthplace
- Run, Genta, Run!
- City
- Like Fire is My Life
1960
- The Great Road
- Devotion to Railway as Yoshito Matsuzaki
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
- The Stragglers
1959
- The Murderer Must Die as Tetsuo Yazaki
- A Dead Drifter
- Thus Another Day as Kenzô Akada
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Newspaperman A
- The Song of the Cart
1958
- The Undefeated Woman
- The Outsiders as Takeshi Ohiwa
- Night Drum as Hikokurô Ogura
- Yoku
- Face in the Dark as Kijima
- Wind, Woman and Road as Sentaro
1957
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Keizo Sasaki
- But the Flesh is Weak as Ichiro Kurakoshi
- Stepbrothers as Hantaro Kido
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Captain Inouye
- Dotanba
- Evil Reward
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Phoenix as (Uncredited)
- Crossroad as Shōgo Ise
- Ryûri no kishi
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
- Husband and Wife as Ryota Takemura
- The Eagle of the Pacific as Staff Officer (uncredited)
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The burglar
- Red-Light Bases as Koichi Kawanabe
- Koibito-tachi no iru machi
- Wife as Tadashi Tanimura
- Escape Zone
- Aijô ni tsuite
- Reunion
- The Lovers as Sugawa
- Omatsuri hanjiro
- The Blue Revolution
1952
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Doctor's Day Off
- Sword for Hire as Tachibana Jurata
- Adolescence as Teacher Harada
- Shanghai Rose as Manabe, First lieutenant
- The Whisper of Spring
- Beauty and the Thief as Kuroki no Jiro
1951
- Boyhood as Teacher Shimomura
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tsuyoshi Yabuki
- Beauty of Life
- Story of Lightning
- The Good Fairy as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter