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
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
- 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
- Killers on Parade
- With Wife, Children, and Friends
- Incidental Murders as Genji
- Koi no gashū as Shuzo, Tomie's father
- Hikkoshi yatsure
- Furimuita hanayome as Yasunosuke Fukuhara
- Hijō no otoko
- Epitaph to My Love as Torikie
- 喜劇 金の実る樹に恋が咲く
- Aoi kairyū
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Reporter A
- Irohanihoheto
- Hot Corner Murder as Hobara
- The Last Trump Card as Yaichi Saito
- Only She Knows
- Banana
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Furuya
- Floating Weeds as Kichinosuke
- Tokyo Omnibus
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- Thus Another Day as Man A
- Fox and Raccoon as Hangoro Iizuka
- Koko ni otoko ari
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Shopkeeper
1958
1957
- The Lower Depths as Yoshisaburo the Gambler
- The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
- Times of Joy and Sorrow as Mr. Kanemaki
- A Case of Honor
- The Unbalanced Wheel
1956
- Early Spring as Hirayama
- The Thick-Walled Room
- Typhoon Furor
- 刑事部屋
- The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
- I Will Buy You as Tamekichi Kurita
- Seishun no oto
1955
- Here Is a Spring
- 元祿美少年記 as 父長助
- Chutaro of Banba
- Christ in Bronze as Iwakichi
- Ejima and Ikushima as 岡本五郎右衛門
- Iroha Elegy
- The Vassal's Neck
1954
1951
- Carmen Comes Home as Oka
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Kichitarō
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Moriyama
- Five Men of Edo as Kodaira
- Weeping Doll as Shige
1950
- Scandal as Cameraman A
- Crazy Uproar
- 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
- Yasen gungakutai as Murakami
1943
1942
- There Was a Father as Graduate
- The Spy Has Not Died Yet
- Sumida River
1940
1939
- Spring Thunder as Kensuke Ide
- Haha o tataeru uta
1938
1935
- A Hero of Tokyo as Hideo Nemoto
- Lumberjack and Lady
1934
- Street Without End as Guest (at café)
- A Story of Floating Weeds as Shinkichi
- The Genealogy of Women
- A Mother Should Be Loved as Kousaku
1933
- Dragnet Girl as Hiroshi
- The Boss's Son at College as Kitamura
- Happy Times
- The Layabout and Seabathing
- Before the Wedding
1932
- The Loyal 47 Ronin
- No Blood Relation as Guy on bike