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
- Japan's No. 1 Braggart as Furui
- The Honest Fool
- How to Make Money
1963
- High and Low as Second Reporter
- Young Guy in Hawaii
- Young Swordsman as Yabe Senjuro
- Legends of Honor
1962
1961
- Epitaph to My Love as Torikie
- Killers on Parade
- Koi no gashū as Shuzo, Tomie's father
- Hijō no otoko
- Aoi kairyū
- Hikkoshi yatsure
- Incidental Murders as Genji
- With Wife, Children, and Friends
- Furimuita hanayome as Yasunosuke Fukuhara
- Kigeki: Kane no naru ki ni koi ga saku
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Reporter A
- Irohanihoheto
- Banana
- Only She Knows
- The Last Trump Card as Yaichi Saito
- Hot Corner Murder as Hobara
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Furuya
- Floating Weeds as Kichinosuke
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Shopkeeper
- Fox and Raccoon as Hangoro Iizuka
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- Thus Another Day as Man A
- Tokyo Omnibus
- Koko ni otoko ari
1958
1957
- The Lower Depths as Yoshisaburo the Gambler
- Tokyo is a Fine Place
- A Case of Honor
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- A Tale of Dung and Urine
- The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
- Times of Joy and Sorrow as Mr. Kanemaki
1956
- Horeruna Yanpachi
- Early Spring as Hirayama
- The Thick-Walled Room as Nishimura
- Sound of Youth
- I Will Buy You as Tamekichi Kurita
- Headquarters of Crime Detection
- Typhoon Furor
- The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1955
- Ejima and Ikushima as 岡本五郎右衛門
- 元祿美少年記 as 父長助
- Here Is a Spring
- Christ in Bronze as Iwakichi
- Chutaro of Banba
- The Vassal's Neck
- Iroha Elegy
1954
1951
- Jōen no hatoba
- Carmen Comes Home as Oka
- Five Men of Edo as Kodaira
- Weeping Doll as Shige
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Moriyama
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Kichitarō
1950
- Scandal as Cameraman A
- Crazy Uproar
- 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
- There Was a Father as Graduate
- Sumida River
- 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 Layabout and Seabathing
- Before the Wedding
- The Boss's Son at College as Kitamura
- Happy Times
1932
- No Blood Relation as Guy on bike
- The Loyal 47 Ronin