Rentaro Mikuni
Acting • Born 1923-01-20 – Died 2013-04-14
Biography
Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rentaro Mikuni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
200 credits
The Bear Storm
Movie • 1980
3,000 Kilometer Trap
Movie • 1971
Good Son-in-Law
Movie • 1954
The Life of a Horse-Trader
Movie • 1963
片山米太郎
Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Movie • 1953
Escape Zone
Movie • 1953
Aijô ni tsuite
Movie • 1953
Kwaidan
Movie • 1965
Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
Omatsuri hanjiro
Movie • 1953
Bodyguard from Hell
Movie • 1955
Three Faces
Movie • 1955
Striving to Live
Movie • 1955
Turbid Youth
Movie • 1954
The Beautiful Nuns
Movie • 1955
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie • 1954
Matahachi
The Burmese Harp
Movie • 1956
Captain Inouye
Dotanba
Movie • 1956
Ryûri no kishi
Movie • 1956
The Undefeated Woman
Movie • 1958
Phoenix
Movie • 1956
(Uncredited)
Evil Reward
Movie • 1956
Yoku
Movie • 1958
A Dead Drifter
Movie • 1959
Like Fire is My Life
Movie • 1961
Umineko ga tonde
Movie • 1962
Futari dake no toride
Movie • 1963
The Stragglers
Movie • 1960
Fateful Birthplace
Movie • 1961
The King
Movie • 1962
The Life of Rikisha-Man
Movie • 1963
Never Give Up
Movie • 1978
Kazunari Ohba
Vengeance Is Mine
Movie • 1979
Shizuo Enokizu
Harakiri
Movie • 1962
Kageyu Saito
Rikyu
Movie • 1989
Rikyu
Tokyo Untouchable
Movie • 1965
Naoto Nishiyama
Neon taiheiki
Movie • 1968
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Movie • 1969
Kamo Serizawa
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Movie • 1981
Hajime Sandaiji
Profound Desires of the Gods
Movie • 1968
Nekichi Futori
The Last Dance
Movie • 1993
Buhei Mukai
Zatoichi at Large
Movie • 1972
Boss Tetsugoro
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Movie • 1967
Asagoro
The Catch
Movie • 1961
Kazumasa Takano
Himiko
Movie • 1974
Nashime
The Christian Revolt
Movie • 1962
Uemonsaku
The Outsiders
Movie • 1958
Takeshi Ohiwa
Coup d'Etat
Movie • 1973
Ikki Kita
The Broken Commandment
Movie • 1962
Rentaro Inoko
Boyhood
Movie • 1951
Teacher Shimomura
Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
Movie • 1971
Baiken Shishido
Mount Hakkoda
Movie • 1977
Major Yamada
The Friends
Movie • 1994
Kihachi Denpo
Miyamoto Musashi
Movie • 1961
Muneaki Takuan
A Fugitive from the Past
Movie • 1965
Takichi Inukai
The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
Movie • 1988
Self
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Movie • 1975
Masaoka
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Movie • 1980
Hachiro Munakata
Luminous Moss
Movie • 1992
Headmaster / Captain
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1988
Takamaru
The Good Fairy
Movie • 1951
Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter
Thus Another Day
Movie • 1959
Kenzô Akada
Someday
Movie • 2011
Making of Daibyonin
Movie • 1993
Self
Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
Movie • 2011
Chubei
The Rendezvous
Movie • 1972
Detective Yamamuro
Duel at Fort Ezo
Movie • 1970
Shimbei Usa
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1953
Ryota Takemura
Free and Easy 7
Movie • 1994
A Human Promise
Movie • 1986
Ryôsaku Morimoto
Wolves, Pigs & Men
Movie • 1964
Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brother
The Go Masters
Movie • 1982
松波麟作
Journey Into Solitude
Movie • 1972
Kunitaro Matsuda
Will to Live
Movie • 1999
Yasukichi
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Movie • 1971
Shigata Komijiro
A Taxing Woman's Return
Movie • 1988
Teppei Onisawa
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Movie • 1970
Shigata Komijiro
Shadow of Deception
Movie • 1971
Keitaro Nishida
Doctor's Day Off
Movie • 1952
Wind, Woman and Road
Movie • 1958
Sentaro
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
Movie • 1963
Naoto, Nishiyama
Free and Easy Special
Movie • 1994
Chronicle of My Mother
Movie • 2012
Hayato
Shinran: Path to Purity
Movie • 1987
Free and Easy 15
Movie • 2004
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Movie • 2001
Basara: The Princess Goh
Movie • 1992
Junsai
Wife
Movie • 1953
Tadashi Tanimura
Captive's Island
Movie • 1966
Daigoku
My Sons
Movie • 1991
Akio Asano
Confessions Among Actresses
Movie • 1971
Minakawa
The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
Movie • 1977
Sunao Kikutake
Free and Easy 19
Movie • 2008
Free and Easy 17
Movie • 2006
Rennyo and His Mother
Movie • 1981
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
Movie • 2001
Devotion to Railway
Movie • 1960
Yoshito Matsuzaki
Free and Easy 14
Movie • 2003
Suzuki Ichinosuke
Solar Eclipse
Movie • 1975
Conservative MP
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Tsuyoshi Yabuki
Policeman's Diary
Movie • 1955
Patrolman Hanakawa
August Without Emperor
Movie • 1978
Tameichiro Emi
Run, Genta, Run!
Movie • 1961
The Possessed
Movie • 1976
Barefoot Gen
Movie • 1976
Father
The Song of the Cart
Movie • 1959
The Old Man and the Sea
Movie • 1999
(voice)
Night Drum
Movie • 1958
Hikokurô Ogura
A Hole of My Own Making
Movie • 1955
Nikoyon monogatari
Movie • 1956
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Movie • 1965
Gisuke Hayashida
Through the Mist
Movie • 2009
(archive footage)
The Fugitive Samurai
Movie • 1984
Glorious Fights
Movie • 1966
Genichiro Gunji
The Women of Osaka Castle
Movie • 1983
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The Tattered Banner
Movie • 1974
Shozo Tanaka
River of Fireflies
Movie • 1987
The Lovers
Movie • 1953
Sugawa
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie • 1959
Newspaperman A
A Story from Echigo
Movie • 1964
Gonsuke Sabu
Free and Easy 9
Movie • 1997
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy 2
Movie • 1989
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy
Movie • 1988
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy 6
Movie • 1993
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Beauty and the Thief
Movie • 1952
Kuroki no Jiro
Sword for Hire
Movie • 1952
Tachibana Jurata
The Threat
Movie • 1966
Misawa
Farewell Rabaul
Movie • 1954
Captain Katase
Thirst for Love
Movie • 1966
Tetsuya Ezaki
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Movie • 1972
The Inugami Family
Movie • 1976
Sahei Inugami
Sweet Revenge
Movie • 1977
Kinzo Otsuka
Oishinbo
Movie • 1996
Yuzan Kaibara
Deeper Than Blue
Movie • 1973
Yukiyoshi Tamiya
Free and Easy 8
Movie • 1996
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy 4
Movie • 1991
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy 5
Movie • 1992
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy 3
Movie • 1990
Ichinosuke Suzuki
Free and Easy 16
Movie • 2005
Suzuki
Free and Easy 10
Movie • 1998
Ichinosuke Suzuki
The Wind Carpet
Movie • 2003
Kinta Nakata
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Movie • 1962
Muneaki Takuan
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Takuan
The Eagle and the Hawk
Movie • 1957
Keizo Sasaki
Escape from Hell
Movie • 1963
Shinpei
The Escape
Movie • 1962
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Movie • 1965
Muneaki Takuan - Priest
Stepbrothers
Movie • 1957
Hantaro Kido
Face in the Dark
Movie • 1958
Kijima
The Earth is Born Again
Movie • 1971
Eisuke Noda
Zoku ôsho
Movie • 1963
Sakita Sankichi
Tale of Army Brutality
Movie • 1963
Yahichi Inumaru
Beyond the Shining Sea
Movie • 1986
Takeya Oumi
But the Flesh is Weak
Movie • 1957
Ichiro Kurakoshi
Crossroad
Movie • 1956
Shōgo Ise
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1955
Jiro Sone
Mitabi no kaikyô
Movie • 1995
The Street of Desire
Movie • 1984
Tadao Shimoda
Turning Point
Movie • 1994
Urano
Nomugi Pass
Movie • 1979
Free and Easy 18
Movie • 2007
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Movie • 1977
Free and Easy 11
Movie • 2000
The Eagle of the Pacific
Movie • 1953
Staff Officer (uncredited)
Shanghai Rose
Movie • 1952
Manabe, First lieutenant
Adolescence
Movie • 1952
Teacher Harada
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Movie • 1953
The burglar
Red-Light Bases
Movie • 1953
Koichi Kawanabe
Itsuko to sono haha
Movie • 1954
Yasukazu Sugi
The Great Road
Movie • 1960
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Movie • 1998
Ichinosuke Suzuki
City of Beasts
Movie • 1970
Yusaku Ishihama
Hell's Kitchen
Movie • 1962
The Blue Revolution
Movie • 1953
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie • 1955
The Samurai of Edo
Movie • 1955
Beauty of Life
Movie • 1951
Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Movie • 1985
Free and Easy 20: Final
Movie • 2009
Vanished Glory
Movie • 1955
Women's House
Movie • 1954
Story of Lightning
Movie • 1951
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
The Whisper of Spring
Movie • 1952
The Murderer Must Die
Movie • 1959
Tetsuo Yazaki
Reunion
Movie • 1953
Hunting Opium-Eaters
Movie • 1960
City
Movie • 1961
Asshii-tachi no machi
Movie • 1981
Scalpel
Movie • 1974
Shiro Kikukawa
Lone Wolf and Cub
Movie • 1984
Yagyū Retsudō
Professional Killers
TV • 1972
剣
TV • 1967
Asaemon Yamada
Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
TV • 1978
Koichiro dojima
Kazoku Netsu
TV • 1978
Nemuri Kyoshiro
TV • 1972
Sekigahara
TV • 1981
Masanobu Honda
子連れ狼
TV • 1984
Nukata no Ōkimi
TV • 1980
Akai shisen
TV • 1980
Akai Unmei
TV • 1976