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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)