Kōji Mitsui
Birthday: 1910-03-06
Place of Birth: 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.
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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No Blood Relation
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her ga...
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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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Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to ...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Epitaph to My Love
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegi...
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Woman in the Dunes
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken capti...
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Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpect...
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model....
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Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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A Fugitive from the Past
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash ...
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The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unawa...
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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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Sumida River
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi S...
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慶安水滸傳
Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino...
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Beautiful Tengu
During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Frie...
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The Greatest Challenge of All
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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A Hen in the Wind
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son b...
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元祿美少年記
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting h...
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The ...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads ...
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A Hero of Tokyo
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the her...
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Dragnet Girl
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealo...
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The Boss's Son at College
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Street Without End
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, de...
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Five Men of Edo
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo...
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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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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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Chutaro of Banba
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring r...
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes ...
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Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima...
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. Sh...
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Killers on Parade
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews whe...
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The Genealogy of Women
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparentl...
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Christ in Bronze
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan....
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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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Children of the Sun
At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes ...
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Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...
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Lumberjack and Lady
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a pra...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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Gang vs. Gang
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame f...
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Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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Incidental Murders
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers,...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob...
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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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Hot Corner Murder
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game....
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Weeping Doll
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan....
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Tange Sazen
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by t...
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Our Miyo-chan
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl....
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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Only She Knows
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating...
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The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fi...
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A Case of Honor
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic ...
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There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...
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The Honest Fool
Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His...
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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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Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...
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The Layabout and Seabathing
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer ca...
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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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Spring Thunder
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at sin...
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Japan's No. 1 Braggart
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old m...
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanes...
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Great Jailbreak
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to...
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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Typhoon
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been...
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Police Precinct Part 8
Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol ca...
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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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Beyond the Rainbow
One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner o...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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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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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....
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Koi no gashū
Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miy...
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Ohana han
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives...
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Hibi no haishin
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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