Kōji Mitsui
Known for: Acting
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
Film
High and Low
Second Reporter
1963
Film
Woman in the Dunes
Village Elder
1964
Film
Red Beard
Heikichi
1965
Film
The Hidden Fortress
Guard (uncredited)
1958
Film
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Furuya
1959
Film
The Bad Sleep Well
Reporter A
1960
Film
Dodes'ka-den
Foodstand owner
1970
Film
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
Film
Our Chief, Our Doctor
1952
Film
Crazy Uproar
1950
Film
Weeping Doll
Shige
1951
Film
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957
Film
The Battle of Okinawa
Old Man
1971
Film
Sumida River
1942
Film
Epitaph to My Love
Torikie
1961
Film
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Shopkeeper
1959
Film
Only She Knows
1960
Film
A Fugitive from the Past
Motojima
1965
Film
Okinu and Banto
1940
Film
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
Film
Japan's Longest Day
Old Journalist
1967
Film
Lumberjack and Lady
1935
Film
Scandal
Cameraman A
1950
Film
Floating Weeds
Kichinosuke
1959
Film
Love Letter
1953
Film
The Lower Depths
Yoshisaburo the Gambler
1957
Film
There Was a Father
Graduate
1942
Film
Gang vs. Gang
1962
Film
A Hen in the Wind
Hideo
1948
Film
Early Spring
Hirayama
1956
Film
Five Men of Edo
Kodaira
1951
Film
Great Jailbreak
1975
Film
Dragnet Girl
Hiroshi
1933
Film
The Inheritance
1962
Film
A Case of Honor
1957
Film
Ejima and Ikushima
岡本五郎右衛門
1955
The Actress and the Detective
1950
Film
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
Film
Thus Another Day
Man A
1959
Film
Victory Song
Kawanishi
1945
Film
Young Guy in Hawaii
1963
Film
A Story of Floating Weeds
Shinkichi
1934
Film
Maria of the Ant Village
1958
Film
Always in My Heart
1953
Film
Killers on Parade
1961
Film
Fireworks Over the Sea
Moriyama
1951
Film
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Mr. Kanemaki
1957
Film
Young Swordsman
Yabe Senjuro
1963
Film
The Thick-Walled Room
1956
Film
Carmen Comes Home
Oka
1951
Film
Banana
1960
Film
Sound of Youth
1956
Film
元祿美少年記
父長助
1955
Film
Hadashi no hanayome
1962
Film
Japan's No. 1 Braggart
Furui
1964
Film
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Mr. Otagaki
1968
Film
The Boss's Son at College
Kitamura
1933
Film
Street Without End
Guest (at café)
1934
Film
Christ in Bronze
Iwakichi
1955
Film
A Tale of Dung and Urine
1957
Film
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
Film
慶安水滸傳
和尚廓念
1954
Film
Here Is a Spring
1955
Film
Aoi kairyū
1961
Film
A Fool's Love
Seki
1949
Film
Spring Thunder
Kensuke Ide
1939
Film
The Last Trump Card
Yaichi Saito
1960
Film
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1958
Film
I Will Buy You
Tamekichi Kurita
1956
Film
Tokyo Bay
Narcotics Control Agent Hayashi
1962
Film
Hibi no haishin
1958
Film
The Body
1962
Film
No Blood Relation
Guy on bike
1932
Film
Mother Country
1962
Film
Our Planes Fly South
1943
Film
Police Precinct Part 8
1958
Film
Field Army Orchestra
Murakami
1944
Film
Our Miyo-chan
Yagi
1969
Film
Otoko no Uta
1962
Film
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942
Film
Beyond the Rainbow
1972
Film
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Kichitarō
1951
Film
A Mother Should Be Loved
Kousaku
1934
Film
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1932
Film
Typhoon Furor
1956
Film
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1957
Film
A Roaring Trade
1962
Furimuita hanayome
Yasunosuke Fukuhara
1961
Film
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1958
Film
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962
Film
Hikkoshi yatsure
1961
Film
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Film
Jealousy
1949
Film
Firefly Light
1958
Film
With Wife, Children, and Friends
1961
Film
Incidental Murders
Genji
1961
Film
Punch Guy
1966
Film
A Bridge for Two Alone
1958
Film
Tange Sazen
1952
Film
The Honest Fool
1964
Film
刑事部屋
1956
Film
Happy Times
1933
Iki na fûraibô
Gentarô
1946
Film
Great X
Yoshioka
1948
Botchan
Nodaiko
1958
Film
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1954
Film
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956
Film
Iroha Elegy
1955
Film
How to Make Money
1964
Film
Onna no ryūkō
1950
Film
Koi no gashū
Shuzo, Tomie's father
1961
Film
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Film
Irohanihoheto
1960
Film
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Film
Ohana han
Mizorogi
1966
Film
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
Film
Chutaro of Banba
1955
Film
Fox and Raccoon
Hangoro Iizuka
1959
Film
Legends of Honor
1963
Film
Beautiful Tengu
弥之助
1954
Film
Kigeki: Kane no naru ki ni koi ga saku
1961
The Vassal's Neck
1955
Film
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958
Film
The Layabout and Seabathing
1933
The Father and His Son
1929
Film
Koko ni otoko ari
1959
Children of the Sun
1938
Film
Hijō no otoko
1961
Film
Hot Corner Murder
Hobara
1960
Film
Salaryman's Medal
1965
Film
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
Film
The Genealogy of Women
1934
Film
A Hero of Tokyo
Hideo Nemoto
1935
Film
Before the Wedding
1933
Film
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954
Film
Haha o tataeru uta
1939
Film
Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
古門前の長次
1953
Film
Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
1954
Film
Jōen no hatoba
1951
Avalanche
1952