Kōji Mitsui
Acting
Born: 1910-03-06 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
Known For
High and Low
Second Reporter
The Hidden Fortress
Guard (uncredited)
Woman in the Dunes
Village Elder
Red Beard
Heikichi
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Furuya
The Bad Sleep Well
Reporter A
Floating Weeds
Kichinosuke
Dodes'ka-den
Foodstand owner
The Lower Depths
Yoshisaburo the Gambler
Scandal
Cameraman A
Early Spring
Hirayama
There Was a Father
Graduate
A Story of Floating Weeds
Shinkichi
A Hen in the Wind
Hideo
A Fugitive from the Past
Motojima
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Mr. Otagaki
Japan's Longest Day
Old Journalist
Love Letter
The Inheritance
Dragnet Girl
Hiroshi
Carmen Comes Home
Oka
The Thick-Walled Room
Nishimura
I Will Buy You
Tamekichi Kurita
A Mother Should Be Loved
Kousaku
No Blood Relation
Guy on bike
The Battle of Okinawa
Old Man
Killers on Parade
Young Swordsman
Yabe Senjuro
Street Without End
Guest (at café)
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Shopkeeper
Thus Another Day
Man A
Fireworks Over the Sea
Moriyama
Victory Song
Kawanishi
Here Is a Spring
Mother Country
Epitaph to My Love
Torikie
Always in My Heart Part 2
Always in My Heart
Lucky Dragon No. 5
