Seiji Miyaguchi
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seiji Miyaguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: November 15, 1913
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Special Crime Investigation Front
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
The Militarists
The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love.
Filmography
as Old man
as Boada (voice)
as Tatsuo
as Jikan
as Yoshikane Nagao
as Old Man
as Muraji
as Sunami
as Mr. Okamoto
as Shukichi
as Shinegori Togo
as Ginsaku Kitagawa
as Ito
as Den'nosuke Kakishima
as Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu)
as Naokichi Kuwata
as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
as Tatsugoro Ishiguro
as Old Man
as Dr. Gulliver (voice)
as Masao Nomura
as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
as Tsukada
as Detective (uncredited)
as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)
as Daizo Suzuki
as Heikichi Hamanaka
as Genji Miyata
as Detective Tasaka
as Funada
as Tatewaki Komuro
as Doctor
as Sanzaemon Katagiri
as Shūhei Isomura
as Shinkichi Yamaguchi
as Usuke
as Takichiro Sada
as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
as School master
as Yoshida
as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
as Takahashi
as Public Prosecutor Okakura
as Hikocho
as Yuichiro
as Masao Shiroyama
as Akira's father
as Rintaro Nonomiya
as Kyôritsu Ô
as Matayan
as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective
as Kin
as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother
as Policeman
as Phantom samurai
as Namie's Uncle
as Yuzo Miura
as Ishiyama (Engineer)
as Okimi's father
as Kyuzo
as Gangster
as Yakuza Boss
as Gunzo Ishiguro
as Nishiwaki
as Assistant editor
as Kohei Tsuzaki