Seiji Miyaguchi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 15 November 1913 · Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- 12 April 1985
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.
Known for
Acting 117
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' as Self
- 1984Farewell to the Ark as Old man
- 1984Antonio Gaudí as Boada (voice)
- 1984Mermaid Legend as Tatsuo
- 1983White Snake Enchantment as Jikan
- 1982Lake of Illusions as Yoshikane Nagao
- 1982The Challenge as Old Man
- 1976Melodies of a White Night
- 1975The Fossil as Sunami
- 1975Aoi sanmyaku as Mr. Okamoto
- 1974Tora-san's Lovesick as 高见
- 1972Tora-san's Dear Old Home as 修吉
- 1971To Love Again
- 1971Hajimete no Tabi
- 1970The Militarists as Shinegori Togo
- 1968My Brother, My Love as Ginsaku Kitagawa
- 1968Admiral Yamamoto as Ito
- 1968Young Guy in Rio
- 1968Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Den'nosuke Kakishima
- 1968Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu)
- 1967Pomegranate Time as Naokichi Kuwata
- 1967Japan's Longest Day as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
- 1967River of Forever
- 1966Punch Guy
- 1965Samurai Spy as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
- 1965The Start of Life as Tatsugoro Ishiguro
- 1965Start Here as Old Man
- 1965Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon as Dr. Gulliver (voice)
- 1965Song of Farewell as Masao Nomura
- 1965The Dedicated Gunman
- 1965Kwaidan as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- 1965The Radish and the Carrot
- 1964The Enforcer
- 1964Raised in a Palace as Tsukada
- 1964The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)
- 1964Fumiko's Five Benefactors as Detective (uncredited)
- 1964Night Scandal as Daizo Suzuki
- 1964The Naked Executive as Heikichi Hamanaka
- 1964Intentions of Murder as Genji Miyata
- 1964Our Happiness Alone
- 1964Night Scandal in Japan as Detective Tasaka
- 1964Pale Flower as Funada
- 1964Samurai from Nowhere as Tatewaki Komuro
- 1964Warrior of the Wind
- 1963Mother as Doctor
- 1963A House in the Quarter as Sanzaemon Katagiri
- 1963The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji as Shūhei Isomura
- 1963Youth After School as Shinkichi Yamaguchi
- 1963La Fée Diabolique
- 1963Escape from Hell as Usuke
- 1963Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Takichiro Sada
- 1963Attack Squadron as Onishi
- 1962Anything For Success
- 1962Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
- 1962Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- 1962The Broken Commandment as School master
- 1962The Inheritance as Yoshida
- 1961Structure of Hate
- 1961That Guy and I
- 1961Miyamoto Musashi as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
- 1961Enraptured
- 1961The Human Condition as Kyôritsu Ô
- 1960Get 'em All as Takahashi
- 1960The War Without Weapons as Mochizuki
- 1960The Last Trump Card as Yoshimura
- 1960The Bad Sleep Well as Public Prosecutor Okakura
- 1960Deep River Melody
- 1960The Twilight Story
- 1960Irohanihoheto
- 1960Banana
- 1960Goodbye to Glory as Hikocho
- 1960Ah Special Attack Corps
- 1959A Secret Rendezvous as Yuichiro
- 1959Tokyo Omnibus
- 1959Someday I'll Know as Masao Shiroyama
- 1959Farewell to Spring as Akira's father
- 1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- 1959Jōen
- 1959The Most Valuable Wife as Rintaro Nonomiya
- 1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Kyôritsu Ô
- 1958Accomplice
- 1958The Spell of the Hidden Gold as Senjuro Takebe
- 1958In Self-Defense
- 1958The Ballad of Narayama as Matayan
- 1958The Rickshaw Man
- 1958Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
- 1958Stakeout as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective
- 1957Black River as Kin
- 1957The Story of Pure Love
- 1957A Dangerous Hero as Sasai
- 1957Akuma no kao
- 1957Untamed Woman as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother
- 1957Hateful Things
- 1957Tokyo Twilight as Policeman
- 1957Night Butterflies
- 1957Throne of Blood as Phantom samurai
- 1956Flowing as Namie's Uncle
- 1956In Case of One Woman as Tomoki Hisamoto
- 1956Will-o'-the-Wisp
- 1956Punishment Room
- 1956The Underworld
- 1956Early Spring as Yuzo Miura
- 1956Samurai of the Great Earth
- 1955Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
- 1955Frame of Snow as Ishiyama (Engineer)
- 1954The Street Without Sun as Okimi's father
- 1954Seven Samurai as Kyuzo
- 1953An Inlet of Muddy Water
- 1953The Last Embrace as Gangster
- 1952Ikiru as Yakuza Boss
- 1951Beauty of Life
- 1951Fireworks Over the Sea as Gunzo Ishiguro
- 1951Early Summer as Nishiwaki
- 1951The Good Fairy as Assistant editor
- 1947Three-Fingered Detective
- 1946A Descendant of Urashima Taro
- 1945Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two as Kohei Tsuzaki