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, January 20, 1923-April 14, 2013) 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
- Free and Easy 8 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Oishinbo as Yuzan Kaibara
1995
1994
- The Friends as Kihachi Denpo
- Turning Point as Urano
- Free and Easy 7
- Free and Easy Special
1993
- The Last Dance as Buhei Mukai
- Free and Easy 6 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto as Self
- Making of Daibyonin as Self
1992
- Basara: The Princess Goh as Junsai
- Free and Easy 5 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Luminous Moss as Headmaster / Captain
1991
- My Sons as Akio Asano
- Free and Easy 4 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1990
- Free and Easy 3 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
1989
- Free and Easy 2 as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- Rikyu as Rikyu
1988
- A Taxing Woman's Return as Teppei Onisawa
- Wuthering Heights as Takamaru
- Free and Easy as Ichinosuke Suzuki
- 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
- Lone Wolf and Cub as Yagyū Retsudō
- 子連れ狼
- The Fugitive Samurai
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
- Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely as Hachiro Munakata
- Akai Shisen
- Nukata no Ōkimi
- 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
- The Possessed
- Barefoot Gen as Father
1975
- Solar Eclipse as Conservative MP
- Waga seishun no toki
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Masaoka
1974
- Himiko as Nashime
- The Tattered Banner as Shozo Tanaka
- Scalpel as Shiro Kikukawa
1973
- Deeper Than Blue as Yukiyoshi Tamiya
- Coup d'Etat as Ikki Kita
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
- Confessions Among Actresses as Minakawa
- Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow as Shigata Komijiro
- 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
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
- The Neon Taiheiki
1967
- Zatoichi the Outlaw as Asagoro
- 剣 as Asaemon Yamada
1966
- The Threat as Misawa
- Captive's Island as Daigoku
- Thirst for Love as Tetsuya Ezaki
- Glorious Fights as Genichiro Gunji
1965
- Kwaidan as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
- A Fugitive from the Past as Takichi Inukai
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Gisuke Hayashida
- Tokyo Untouchable as Naoto Nishiyama
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Muneaki Takuan - Priest
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
- Zoku ôsho as Sakita Sankichi
- The Life of Rikisha-Man
- Tokyo Untouchable: Escape as Naoto, Nishiyama
- The Life of a Horse-Trader as 片山米太郎
- Futari dake no toride
1962
- Harakiri as Kageyu Saito
- The Broken Commandment as Rentaro Inoko
- The King
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Muneaki Takuan
- The Christian Revolt as Uemonsaku
- The Escape
- Hell's Kitchen
- Umineko ga tonde
1961
- Miyamoto Musashi as Muneaki Takuan
- The Catch as Kazumasa Takano
- Run, Genta, Run!
- Fateful Birthplace
- City
- Like Fire is My Life
1960
- The Great Road
- Devotion to Railway as Yoshito Matsuzaki
- The Stragglers
- Hunting Opium-Eaters
1959
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Newspaperman A
- The Song of the Cart
- The Murderer Must Die as Tetsuo Yazaki
- Thus Another Day as Kenzô Akada
- A Dead Drifter
1958
- Night Drum as Hikokurô Ogura
- Face in the Dark as Kijima
- The Undefeated Woman
- Wind, Woman and Road as Sentaro
- Yoku
- The Outsiders as Takeshi Ohiwa
1957
- Stepbrothers as Hantaro Kido
- But the Flesh is Weak as Ichiro Kurakoshi
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Keizo Sasaki
1956
- The Burmese Harp as Captain Inouye
- Phoenix as Film actor (uncredited)
- Crossroad as Shōgo Ise
- Wandering Shore
- Dotanba
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Evil Reward
1955
- Till We Meet Again as Jiro Sone
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Hanakawa
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- A Hole of My Own Making
- Striving to Live
- The Beautiful Nuns
- Vanished Glory
- The Samurai of Edo
- Bodyguard from Hell
- The Three Faces as Ken'ichirō Kishi
1954
- Super Hawk Volume II
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Matahachi
- Super Hawk Volume I
- Turbid Youth
- Farewell Rabaul as Captain Katase
- Itsuko to sono haha as Yasukazu Sugi
- Women's House
- Good Son-in-Law
1953
- Wife as Tadashi Tanimura
- The Eagle of the Pacific as Staff Officer (uncredited)
- Husband and Wife as Ryota Takemura
- The Lovers as Sugawa
- The Blue Revolution
- The Red Light Military Base as Koichi Kawanabe
- Omatsuri hanjiro
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The burglar
- Reunion
- Escape Zone
- About Love
- Koibito-tachi no iru machi
1952
- Sword for Hire as Tachibana Jurata
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Beauty and the Thief as Kuroki no Jiro
- Doctor's Day Off
- Adolescence as Teacher Harada
- Shanghai Rose as Manabe, First lieutenant
- The Whisper of Spring
1951
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tsuyoshi Yabuki
- Boyhood as Teacher Shimomura
- The Good Fairy as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter
- Beauty of Life
- Story of Lightning