
Seiji Miyaguchi
Acting • Born 1913-11-15 – Died 1985-04-12
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.
Filmography
112 credits
Kwaidan
Movie • 1965
Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Aoi sanmyaku
Movie • 1975
Mr. Okamoto

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Kyôritsu Ô

The Bad Sleep Well
Movie • 1960
Public Prosecutor Okakura

Youth After School
Movie • 1963
Shinkichi Yamaguchi

Stakeout
Movie • 1958
Yuji Shimooka, the police detective

Mother
Movie • 1963
Doctor

Pale Flower
Movie • 1964
Funada

Fumiko's Five Benefactors
Movie • 1964
Detective (uncredited)

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
Movie • 1945
Kohei Tsuzaki

Japan's Longest Day
Movie • 1967
Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

Samurai Spy
Movie • 1965
Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa

Melodies of a White Night
Movie • 1976

Early Summer
Movie • 1951
Nishiwaki

The Naked Executive
Movie • 1964
Heikichi Hamanaka

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Movie • 1962

Night Scandal
Movie • 1964
Daizo Suzuki

Escape from Hell
Movie • 1963
Usuke

Pomegranate Time
Movie • 1967
Naokichi Kuwata

Black River
Movie • 1957
Kin

Samurai from Nowhere
Movie • 1964
Tatewaki Komuro

The Broken Commandment
Movie • 1962
School master

Hajimete no Tabi
Movie • 1971

Mermaid Legend
Movie • 1984
Tatsuo

Night Scandal in Japan
Movie • 1964
Detective Tasaka

The Militarists
Movie • 1970
Shinegori Togo

A Dangerous Hero
Movie • 1957

悪魔の顔
Movie • 1957

River of Forever
Movie • 1967

Anything For Success
Movie • 1962

A Secret Rendezvous
Movie • 1959
Yuichiro

The Challenge
Movie • 1982
Old Man

Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Yakuza Boss

Throne of Blood
Movie • 1957
Phantom samurai

Samurai of the Great Earth
Movie • 1956

Will-o'-the-Wisp
Movie • 1956

Farewell to the Ark
Movie • 1984
Old man

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Movie • 1964
Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)

Flowing
Movie • 1956
Namie's Uncle

The Ballad of Narayama
Movie • 1958
Matayan

White Snake Enchantment
Movie • 1983
Jikan

The Inheritance
Movie • 1962
Yoshida

To Love Again
Movie • 1971

Irohanihoheto
Movie • 1960

Night Butterflies
Movie • 1957

Raised in a Palace
Movie • 1964
Tsukada

The Good Fairy
Movie • 1951
Assistant editor

Farewell to Spring
Movie • 1959
Akira's father

Deep River Melody
Movie • 1960

The Twilight Story
Movie • 1960

The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Movie • 1958
Senjuro Takebe

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Movie • 1963
Takichiro Sada

The Last Embrace
Movie • 1953
Gangster

Enraptured
Movie • 1961

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie • 1959

Punishment Room
Movie • 1956

Song of Farewell
Movie • 1965
Masao Nomura

A House in the Quarter
Movie • 1963
Sanzaemon Katagiri

Goodbye to Glory
Movie • 1960
Hikocho

Warrior of the Wind
Movie • 1964

Antonio Gaudí
Movie • 1984
Boada (voice)

Our Happiness Alone
Movie • 1964

Miyamoto Musashi
Movie • 1961
Bamboo craftsman Kisuke

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Movie • 1962
Bamboo craftsman Kisuke

Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Movie • 1972
Shukichi

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
Movie • 2002
Self

The Underworld
Movie • 1956

Accomplice
Movie • 1958

Get 'em All
Movie • 1960
Takahashi

Tokyo Omnibus
Movie • 1959

The Start of Life
Movie • 1965
Tatsugoro Ishiguro

A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Movie • 1946

The Radish and the Carrot
Movie • 1965

The Fossil
Movie • 1975
Sunami

Someday I'll Know
Movie • 1959
Masao Shiroyama

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
Movie • 1963
Shūhei Isomura

My Brother, My Love
Movie • 1968
Ginsaku Kitagawa

Intentions of Murder
Movie • 1964
Genji Miyata

The Most Valuable Wife
Movie • 1959
Rintaro Nonomiya

The Enforcer
Movie • 1964

Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Policeman

The Story of Pure Love
Movie • 1957

Untamed Woman
Movie • 1957
Sotaro, Oshima's older brother

The Rickshaw Man
Movie • 1958

Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Gunzo Ishiguro

That Guy and I
Movie • 1961

Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Kyuzo

Tora-san's Lovesick
Movie • 1974

Lake of Illusions
Movie • 1982
Yoshikane Nagao

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
Movie • 1965
Dr. Gulliver (voice)

Admiral Yamamoto
Movie • 1968
Ito

The Street Without Sun
Movie • 1954
Okimi's father

Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Yuzo Miura

Three-Fingered Detective
Movie • 1947

An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie • 1953

Beauty of Life
Movie • 1951

The Dedicated Gunman
Movie • 1965

Ah Special Attack Corps
Movie • 1960

Jōen
Movie • 1959

In Self-Defense
Movie • 1958

Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Movie • 1958

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Movie • 1968
Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu)

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Movie • 1968
Den'nosuke Kakishima

Structure of Hate
Movie • 1961

最後の切札
Movie • 1960

Hateful Things
Movie • 1957

Start Here
Movie • 1965
Old Man

Frame of Snow
Movie • 1955
Ishiyama (Engineer)

Punch Guy
Movie • 1966

Young Guy in Rio
Movie • 1968

Special Crime Investigation Front
TV • 1977

Shōgun
TV • 1980
Muraji