Kōji Mitsui
Acting · Born 1910-03-06 · age 69 at death · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
Titles
High and Low
The Hidden Fortress
Woman in the Dunes
Red Beard
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Bad Sleep Well
Floating Weeds
Dodes'ka-den
The Lower Depths
Scandal
Early Spring
There Was a Father
A Story of Floating Weeds
A Hen in the Wind
A Fugitive from the Past
Japan's Longest Day
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Love Letter
The Inheritance
Dragnet Girl
Carmen Comes Home
The Thick-Walled Room
I Will Buy You
A Mother Should Be Loved
No Blood Relation
The Battle of Okinawa
Killers on Parade
Young Swordsman
Street Without End
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Thus Another Day
Fireworks Over the Sea
Victory Song
Here Is a Spring
Mother Country
Epitaph to My Love
Always in My Heart Part 2
Always in My Heart
Lucky Dragon No. 5
The Body
Chutaro of Banba
Gang vs. Gang
A Hero of Tokyo
The Boss's Son at College
Five Men of Edo
The Vassal's Neck
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Lumberjack and Lady
Times of Joy and Sorrow
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Young Guy in Hawaii
Great Jailbreak
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Ishimatsu of the Forest
The Greatest Challenge of All
元祿美少年記
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Firefly Light
The Genealogy of Women