Seiji Miyaguchi
Birthday: 1913-11-15
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Seiji Miyaguchi (宮口 精二 Miyaguchi Seiji, November 15, 1913–April 12, 1985) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman) despite the actor's confession to have never handled a sword before the role, Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. He died of lung cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seiji Miyaguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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Youth After School
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develo...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of ...
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Pale Flower
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan...
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Fumiko's Five Benefactors
A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles....
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Samurai Spy
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob...
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Melodies of a White Night
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultur...
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The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...
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Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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The Broken Commandment
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat...
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Mermaid Legend
A couple of abalone divers has to confront brutal investors setting foot in their coastline....
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Night Scandal in Japan
Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish b...
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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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A Secret Rendezvous
After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of...
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The Challenge
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole ...
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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Farewell to the Ark
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and ...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefa...
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Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le...
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White Snake Enchantment
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangl...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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To Love Again
A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them ...
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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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Raised in a Palace
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl...
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The Good Fairy
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investi...
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Farewell to Spring
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as st...
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Deep River Melody
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's ...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin...
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The Last Embrace
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subs...
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Enraptured
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Punishment Room
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend ...
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Song of Farewell
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he l...
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A House in the Quarter
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successfu...
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Goodbye to Glory
A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country....
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Warrior of the Wind
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and roman...
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Antonio Gaudí
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings,...
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Our Happiness Alone
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobu...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young wom...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses ...
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The Underworld
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantica...
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Get 'em All
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks ...
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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The Start of Life
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father lose...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashi...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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The Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a gli...
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The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally ge...
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Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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The Most Valuable Wife
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daugh...
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Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they ...
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into U...
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Lake of Illusions
A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running ...
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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor ...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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Three-Fingered Detective
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony....
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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Ah Special Attack Corps
Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as...
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In Self-Defense
A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-def...
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...
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Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
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Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep u...
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Structure of Hate
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over ...
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Hateful Things
The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying ...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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Frame of Snow
During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in lo...
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