Seiji Miyaguchi

Seiji Miyaguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi (left) and Michiko Saga on stage in 1966
Born	(1913-11-15)November 15, 1913 Tokyo, Japan
Died	April 12, 1985(1985-04-12) (aged 71)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1933–1985
Awards	Mainichi Film Concours Best Supporting Actor 1955 Seven Samurai

Seiji Miyaguchi (宮口 精二, Miyaguchi Seiji, November 15, 1913 – April 12, 1985) was a Japanese actor who appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and many others. He succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 71.

Selected filmography

• 1945: Sanshiro Sugata Part II - Kohei Tsuzaki
• 1946: Urashima Tarô no kôei
• 1947: Sanbon yubi no otoko
• 1951: The Good Fairy - Editor-in-chief
• 1951: Early Summer - Nishiwaki
• 1951: Fireworks over the Sea - Gunzô Ishiguro
• 1951: Inochi uruwashi - Oshima
• 1952: Ikiru - Yakuza Boss
• 1953: The Last Embrace - Gangster
• 1953: Senkan Yamato
• 1953: An Inlet of Muddy Water - Gen Shichi (Story 3)
• 1954: Seven Samurai - Kyuzo, the master swordsman
• 1954: Taiyo no nai machi
• 1955: Izumi e no michi
• 1956: Kyatsu o nigasuna
• 1956: Flowing
• 1956: Ankokugai
• 1956: Shokei no heya - Hanya, Katsumi's father
• 1956: Onibi
• 1956: Aru onna no baai - Tomoki Hisamoto
• 1956: Nagareru - Namie's uncle
• 1957: Throne of Blood - Phantom samurai
• 1957: Tokyo Twilight - Policeman
• 1957: Aruse
• 1957: Nikui mono
• 1957: Yoru no chô - Customer
• 1957: Kiken na eiyu
• 1957: Jun'ai monogatari - Judge
• 1957: Kuroi kawa - Kin
• 1958: Stakeout - Yuji Shimooka, the police detective
• 1958: Kuroi kafun - Kitaga
• 1958: Rickshaw Man - Fencing master
• 1958: The Ballad of Narayama - Mata-yan
• 1958: Ryu ni makasero
• 1958: Nemuri Kyôshirô burai hikae: Maken jigoku - Senjuro Takebe
• 1959: The Human Condition - Kyôritsu Ô
• 1959: Saikô shukun fujin - Rintaro Nonomiya
• 1959: Kiku to Isamu - Doctor
• 1959: Farewell to Spring - Akira's father
• 1959: Aruhi watashi wa - Masao Shiroyama
• 1959: Mikkai
• 1959: Jôen - Ôshû Mitani
• 1960: Banana
• 1960: Bokutô kitan - Yoshizo
• 1960: The Bad Sleep Well - Prosecutor Okakura
• 1960: 'Minagoroshi no uta' yori kenjû-yo saraba! - Takahashi
• 1961: Enraptured - Prof. Nunokawa
• 1961: Miyamoto Musashi - Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
• 1961: Aitsu to watashi - Kokichi, Saburo's father
• 1961: Kuroi gashû dainibu: Kanryû
• 1962: Karami-ai
• 1962: The Outcast - School master
• 1962: Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights - Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
• 1962: Gekkyû dorobo
• 1963: Attack Squadron!
• 1963: Koto - Takichiro Sada
• 1963: Mushukunin-betsuchô - Usuke
• 1963: Subarashii akujo
• 1963: Alibi - Asakichi Sagawa
• 1963: Mashiroki Fuji no ne - Shûhei Isomura
• 1963: Gobanchô yûgirirô - Sanzaemon
• 1963: Mother - Doctor
• 1963: Hikaru umi - Seiji Tajima
• 1964: Kaze no bushi
• 1964: Pale Flower - Gang leader
• 1964: Nihiki no mesu inu - Detective Tasaka
• 1964: Samurai from Nowhere - Tatewaki Komuro
• 1964: Unholy Desire - Genji Miyata
• 1964: Hadaka no jûyaku - Heikichi Hamanaka
• 1964: Akujo - Daizo Suzuki
• 1964: Ai to shi o mitsumete
• 1964: Kuruwa sodachi - Tsukada
• 1964: Kwaidan - Old man (segment "Chawan no naka")
• 1964: Kenji Kirishima Saburô - Masayuki Mori
• 1965: Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon - Prof. Gulliver (voice)
• 1965: Miseinen - Zoku cupola no aru machi - Tatsugorô Ishiguro
• 1965: Samurai Spy - Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
• 1966: Panchi yarô - Wada's Father
• 1967: Taifû to zakuro - Naokichi Kuwata
• 1967: Chikumagawa zesshô
• 1967: Japan's Longest Day - Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
• 1968: Shachô hanjôki
• 1968: Zoku shacho hanjôki
• 1968: Rio no wakadaishô
• 1968: Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku - Ito
• 1968: Aniki no koibito - Ginsaku Kitagawa
• 1970: The Militarists' - Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
• 1971: To Love Again - Miya's father
• 1972: Tora-san's Dear Old Home - Utako's father
• 1974: The Fossil - Sunami
• 1974: Tora-san's Lovesick - Utako's father
• 1975: Aoi sanmyaku
• 1977: Melodii beloy nochi
• 1980: Tobe ikarosu no tsubasa - Miwa
• 1980: Shōgun (TV Mini-Series) - Muraji
• 1982: The Challenge - Old Man
• 1982: Maboroshi no mizuumi - Yoshikane Nagao
• 1983: Hakujasho - Jikan
• 1984: Ningyo densetsu - Tatsuo
• 1984: Farewell to the Ark - Old man
• 1986: Oedipus no yaiba - Yoshiyama (final film role)

Selected television appearances

• 1965: Taikōki - Manase Dōsan
• 1972: Shin Heike Monogatari - Fujiwara no Shunzei
• 1976: Kaze to Kumo to Niji to - Musashi no Takeshiba
• 1979: Oretachi wa Tenshi da! (1979) Episode14
• 1983: Tokugawa Ieyasu - Torii Tadayoshi
• 1984: Sanga Moyu - Ichirō Kiyose

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1983)

External links

• Seiji Miyaguchi at IMDb
• Seiji Miyaguchi at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)