Kōji Mitsui
Born: 1910-03-06 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Died: 1979-07-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Mitsui Koji ( March 6, 1910 - April 20, 1979 ) was a Japanese actor. His real name was Mitsui Hikohide. After the war, he played an active role as a supporting actor in films directed by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu . His former stage name was Mitsui Hideo. Changed his stage name to Mitsui Koji in Ozu's Hen in the Wind (1948) . His role as the playboy Kisaburo in Kurosawa Akira 's The Lower Depths (1957) won him the Best Supporting Actor award at the 12th Mainichi Film Awards and the 8th Blue Ribbon Awards, solidifying his status as a supporting actor. After going freelance in 1960, he worked not only in films but also in television dramas and on stage, but after undergoing surgery for a stomach ulcer in 1971, his health deteriorated and he scaled back his acting career. He died of heart failure on April 20, 1979 at a hospital in Kamakura. He was 69 years old.
Filmography
1975
1972
1971
- The Battle of Okinawa as Old Man
1970
- Dodes'ka-den as Foodstand owner
1969
- Our Miyo-chan as Yagi
1968
- Nanami: The Inferno of First Love as Mr. Otagaki
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Old Journalist
- The Greatest Challenge of All
1965
- Red Beard as Heikichi
- A Fugitive from the Past as Motojima
- Salaryman's Medal
1964
- Woman in the Dunes as Village Elder
- I Am a Medical Examiner
- The Honest Fool
- Japan's No. 1 Braggart as Furui
- How to Make Money
1963
- High and Low as Second Reporter
- Young Swordsman as Yabe Senjuro
- Young Guy in Hawaii
- Legends of Honor
1962
1961
- Epitaph to My Love as Torikie
- Killers on Parade
- Incidental Murders as Genji
- Hijō no otoko
- Kigeki: Kane no naru ki ni koi ga saku
- Hikkoshi yatsure
- With Wife, Children, and Friends
- Aoi kairyū
- Furimuita hanayome as Yasunosuke Fukuhara
- Koi no gashū as Shuzo, Tomie's father
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Reporter A
- Only She Knows
- The Last Trump Card as Yaichi Saito
- Irohanihoheto
- Hot Corner Murder as Hobara
- Banana
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Furuya
- Floating Weeds as Kichinosuke
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Shopkeeper
- Tokyo Omnibus
- Fox and Raccoon as Hangoro Iizuka
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- Koko ni otoko ari
- Thus Another Day as Man A
1958
1957
- The Lower Depths as Yoshisaburo the Gambler
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
- A Case of Honor
- Times of Joy and Sorrow as Mr. Kanemaki
- A Tale of Dung and Urine
1956
- Early Spring as Hirayama
- 刑事部屋
- The Thick-Walled Room as Nishimura
- I Will Buy You as Tamekichi Kurita
- Sound of Youth
- The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
- Typhoon Furor
1955
- Here Is a Spring
- Christ in Bronze as Iwakichi
- Ejima and Ikushima as 岡本五郎右衛門
- 元祿美少年記 as 父長助
- Chutaro of Banba
- The Vassal's Neck
- Iroha Elegy
1954
1951
- Weeping Doll as Shige
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Moriyama
- Five Men of Edo as Kodaira
- Jōen no hatoba
- Carmen Comes Home as Oka
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Kichitarō
1950
- Crazy Uproar
- Scandal as Cameraman A
- The Actress and the Detective
- Onna no ryūkō
1949
1948
- A Hen in the Wind as Hideo
- Great X as Yoshioka
- The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1946
- Iki na fûraibô as Gentarô
1945
- Victory Song as Kawanishi
1944
- Field Army Orchestra as Murakami
1943
1942
- Sumida River
- There Was a Father as Graduate
- The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1940
1939
- Spring Thunder as Kensuke Ide
- Haha o tataeru uta
1938
1935
- Lumberjack and Lady
- A Hero of Tokyo as Hideo Nemoto
1934
- A Story of Floating Weeds as Shinkichi
- Street Without End as Guest (at café)
- A Mother Should Be Loved as Kousaku
- The Genealogy of Women
1933
- Dragnet Girl as Hiroshi
- The Boss's Son at College as Kitamura
- The Layabout and Seabathing
- Happy Times
- Before the Wedding
1932
- The Loyal 47 Ronin
- No Blood Relation as Guy on bike