Kōji Mitsui
Acting • Born 1910-03-06 – Died 1979-07-20
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.
Filmography
132 credits
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Movie • 1951
Kichitarō
The Hidden Fortress
Movie • 1958
Guard (uncredited)
Hikkoshi yatsure
Movie • 1961
No Blood Relation
Movie • 1932
Guy on bike
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Furuya
The Bad Sleep Well
Movie • 1960
Reporter A
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Movie • 1949
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1957
Yoshisaburo the Gambler
High and Low
Movie • 1963
Second Reporter
Epitaph to My Love
Movie • 1961
Torikie
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Movie • 1962
Otoko no Uta
Movie • 1962
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie • 1962
A Story of Floating Weeds
Movie • 1934
Shinkichi
Woman in the Dunes
Movie • 1964
Village Elder
Floating Weeds
Movie • 1959
Kichinosuke
Iki na fûraibô
Movie • 1946
Gentarô
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Movie • 1968
Mr. Otagaki
Carmen Comes Home
Movie • 1951
Oka
I Will Buy You
Movie • 1956
Tamekichi Kurita
A Fugitive from the Past
Movie • 1965
Motojima
The Thick-Walled Room
Movie • 1956
A Mother Should Be Loved
Movie • 1934
Kousaku
The Body
Movie • 1962
Sumida River
Movie • 1942
Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
Movie • 1953
古門前の長次
慶安水滸傳
Movie • 1954
和尚廓念
Beautiful Tengu
Movie • 1954
弥之助
The Greatest Challenge of All
Movie • 1967
Ejima and Ikushima
Movie • 1955
岡本五郎右衛門
A Hen in the Wind
Movie • 1948
Hideo
元祿美少年記
Movie • 1955
父長助
Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
Movie • 1954
Koko ni otoko ari
Movie • 1959
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Movie • 1962
Haha o tataeru uta
Movie • 1939
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Movie • 1954
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Movie • 1954
A Hero of Tokyo
Movie • 1935
Hideo Nemoto
A Roaring Trade
Movie • 1962
Dragnet Girl
Movie • 1933
Hiroshi
The Boss's Son at College
Movie • 1933
Kitamura
Red Beard
Movie • 1965
Heikichi
Dodes'ka-den
Movie • 1970
Foodstand owner
Our Planes Fly South
Movie • 1943
Scandal
Movie • 1950
Cameraman A
Street Without End
Movie • 1934
Guest (at café)
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Movie • 1958
Five Men of Edo
Movie • 1951
Kodaira
The Inheritance
Movie • 1962
Irohanihoheto
Movie • 1960
Here Is a Spring
Movie • 1955
Botchan
Movie • 1958
Nodaiko
Chutaro of Banba
Movie • 1955
Love Letter
Movie • 1953
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Movie • 1961
Firefly Light
Movie • 1958
The Battle of Okinawa
Movie • 1971
Furimuita hanayome
Movie • 1961
Yasunosuke Fukuhara
The Vassal's Neck
Movie • 1955
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Movie • 1957
Thus Another Day
Movie • 1959
Man A
Killers on Parade
Movie • 1961
The Genealogy of Women
Movie • 1934
Christ in Bronze
Movie • 1955
Iwakichi
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie • 1959
Shopkeeper
Children of the Sun
Movie • 1938
Victory Song
Movie • 1945
Kawanishi
Young Swordsman
Movie • 1963
Yabe Senjuro
Lumberjack and Lady
Movie • 1935
Great X
Movie • 1948
Yoshioka
The Unbalanced Wheel
Movie • 1957
Gang vs. Gang
Movie • 1962
Tokyo Bay
Movie • 1962
Narcotics Control Agent Hayashi
Drunkard's Paradise
Movie • 1962
How to Make Money
Movie • 1964
Incidental Murders
Movie • 1961
Genji
Happy Times
Movie • 1933
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Movie • 1948
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie • 1959
Hadashi no hanayome
Movie • 1962
Legends of Honor
Movie • 1963
Hot Corner Murder
Movie • 1960
Hobara
Weeping Doll
Movie • 1951
Shige
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1952
A Fool's Love
Movie • 1949
Seki
Our Miyo-chan
Movie • 1969
Yagi
Always in My Heart Part 2
Movie • 1953
Always in My Heart
Movie • 1953
Maria of the Ant Village
Movie • 1958
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
Movie • 1942
A Bridge for Two Alone
Movie • 1958
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Movie • 1957
Mr. Kanemaki
Only She Knows
Movie • 1960
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Movie • 1956
A Case of Honor
Movie • 1957
There Was a Father
Movie • 1942
Graduate
The Honest Fool
Movie • 1964
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Moriyama
Mother Country
Movie • 1962
The Layabout and Seabathing
Movie • 1933
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Hirayama
Spring Thunder
Movie • 1939
Kensuke Ide
The Sandal Keeper
Movie • 1964
Furui
Iroha Elegy
Movie • 1955
Our Chief, Our Doctor
Movie • 1952
Great Jailbreak
Movie • 1975
Young Guy in Hawaii
Movie • 1963
Typhoon
Movie • 1956
Police Precinct Part 8
Movie • 1958
Japan's Longest Day
Movie • 1967
Old Journalist
Okinu and Banto
Movie • 1940
Crazy Uproar
Movie • 1950
Beyond the Rainbow
Movie • 1972
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Movie • 1959
Salaryman's Medal
Movie • 1965
刑事部屋
Movie • 1956
Hijō no otoko
Movie • 1961
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Movie • 1958
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Movie • 1958
Koi no gashū
Movie • 1961
Shuzo, Tomie's father
Ohana han
Movie • 1966
Mizorogi
Hibi no haishin
Movie • 1958
Fox and Raccoon
Movie • 1959
Hangoro Iizuka
喜劇 金の実る樹に恋が咲く
Movie • 1961
The Father and His Son
Movie • 1929
Onna no ryūkō
Movie • 1950
Yasen gungakutai
Movie • 1944
Murakami
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1932
Before the Wedding
Movie • 1933
Punch Guy
Movie • 1966
Seishun no oto
Movie • 1956