Seiji Miyaguchi
Acting Born Nov 15, 1913 Tokyo, Japan 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Seven Samurai (1954) as Kyuzo
- Shōgun (1980) as Muraji
- Special Crime Investigation Front (1977)
- Ikiru (1952) as Yakuza Boss
- Kwaidan (1965) as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- Throne of Blood (1957) as Phantom samurai
- White Snake Enchantment (1983) as Jikan
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) as Kyôritsu Ô
- The Bad Sleep Well (1960) as Public Prosecutor Okakura
- Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
- Admiral Yamamoto (1968) as Ito
- Intentions of Murder (1964) as Genji Miyata
- Lake of Illusions (1982) as Yoshikane Nagao
- Pale Flower (1964) as Funada
- Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965) as Dr. Gulliver (voice)
- A House in the Quarter (1963) as Sanzaemon Katagiri
- Early Summer (1951) as Nishiwaki
- Early Spring (1956) as Yuzo Miura
- Tokyo Twilight (1957) as Policeman
- Untamed Woman (1957) as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother
- The Ballad of Narayama (1958) as Matayan
- Samurai Spy (1965) as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
- The Challenge (1982) as Old Man
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)