
Kōji Mitsui
Acting
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 Blu…

High and Low
1963
Second Reporter

The Hidden Fortress
1958
Guard (uncredited)

Woman in the Dunes
1964
Village Elder

Red Beard
1965
Heikichi

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Furuya

The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Reporter A

Floating Weeds
1959
Kichinosuke

Dodes'ka-den
1970
Foodstand owner

The Lower Depths
1957
Yoshisaburo the Gambler

Scandal
1950
Cameraman A

Early Spring
1956
Hirayama

There Was a Father
1942
Graduate

A Story of Floating Weeds
1934
Shinkichi

A Hen in the Wind
1948
Hideo

A Fugitive from the Past
1965
Motojima

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1968
Mr. Otagaki

Japan's Longest Day
1967
Old Journalist

The Inheritance
1962

Love Letter
1953

Dragnet Girl
1933
Hiroshi
