Seiji Miyaguchi

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

Born: Tokyo, Japan, 1913-11-14

Died: 1985-04-12

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	Sanshiro Sugata Part Two	Kohei Tsuzaki	60
2	1946	A Descendant of Urashima Taro		60
3	1947	Three-Fingered Detective		0
4	1951	The Good Fairy	Assistant editor	55
5	1951	Early Summer	Nishiwaki	78
6	1951	Fireworks Over the Sea	Gunzo Ishiguro	50
7	1951	Beauty of Life		0
8	1952	Ikiru	Yakuza Boss	83
9	1953	The Last Embrace	Gangster	0
10	1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water		61
11	1954	Seven Samurai	Kyuzo	85
12	1954	The Street Without Sun	Okimi's father	0
13	1956	Samurai of the Great Earth		0
14	1956	Early Spring	Yuzo Miura	76
15	1956	The Underworld		0
16	1956	Punishment Room		69
17	1956	Will-o'-the-Wisp		0
18	1956	Flowing	Namie's Uncle	71
19	1957	Throne of Blood	Phantom samurai	79
20	1957	Night Butterflies		63
21	1957	Tokyo Twilight	Policeman	77
22	1957	Untamed Woman	Sotaro, Oshima's older brother	73
23	1957	悪魔の顔		0
24	1957	A Dangerous Hero		0
25	1957	The Story of Pure Love		68
26	1957	Black River	Kin	69
27	1958	Stakeout	Yuji Shimooka, the police detective	69
28	1958	The Rickshaw Man		72
29	1958	The Ballad of Narayama	Matayan	75
30	1958	The Spell of the Hidden Gold	Senjuro Takebe	60
31	1958	Accomplice		0
32	1959	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	Kyôritsu Ô	81
33	1959	The Most Valuable Wife	Rintaro Nonomiya	75
34	1959	Jōen		0
35	1959	Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan		57
36	1959	Farewell to Spring	Akira's father	62
37	1959	Someday I'll Know	Masao Shiroyama	0
38	1959	Tokyo Omnibus		0
39	1959	A Secret Rendezvous	Yuichiro	52
40	1960	Ah Special Attack Corps		0
41	1960	Goodbye to Glory	Hikocho	0
42	1960	Irohanihoheto		0
43	1960	The Twilight Story		80
44	1960	Deep River Melody		60
45	1960	The Bad Sleep Well	Public Prosecutor Okakura	77
46	1960	Get 'em All	Takahashi	60
47	1961	Enraptured		0
48	1961	Miyamoto Musashi	Bamboo craftsman Kisuke	73
49	1961	That Guy and I		100
50	1962	The Inheritance	Yoshida	72
51	1962	The Broken Commandment	School master	66
52	1962	Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi		0
53	1962	Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights	Bamboo craftsman Kisuke	74
54	1962	Gekkyū dorobō		0
55	1963	Twin Sisters of Kyoto	Takichiro Sada	65
56	1963	Escape from Hell	Usuke	62
57	1963	Youth After School	Shinkichi Yamaguchi	0
58	1963	A House in the Quarter	Sanzaemon Katagiri	60
59	1963	The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji	Shūhei Isomura	0
60	1963	Mother	Doctor	68
61	1964	Warrior of the Wind		67
62	1964	Pale Flower	Funada	74
63	1964	Night Scandal in Japan	Detective Tasaka	0
64	1964	Our Happiness Alone		0
65	1964	Samurai from Nowhere	Tatewaki Komuro	71
66	1964	Intentions of Murder	Genji Miyata	71
67	1964	The Naked Executive	Heikichi Hamanaka	0
68	1964	Night Scandal	Daizo Suzuki	0
69	1964	Fumiko's Five Benefactors	Detective (uncredited)	0
70	1964	The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers	Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)	52
71	1964	Raised in a Palace	Tsukada	60
72	1964	The Enforcer		0
73	1965	The Radish and the Carrot		100
74	1965	Kwaidan	Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")	77
75	1965	The Dedicated Gunman		0
76	1965	Song of Farewell	Masao Nomura	0
77	1965	Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon	Dr. Gulliver (voice)	59
78	1965	The Start of Life	Tatsugoro Ishiguro	0
79	1965	Samurai Spy	Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa	66
80	1967	River of Forever		0
81	1967	Japan's Longest Day	Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo	71
82	1967	Pomegranate Time	Naokichi Kuwata	0
83	1968	Admiral Yamamoto	Ito	83
84	1968	My Brother, My Love	Ginsaku Kitagawa	0
85	1970	The Militarists	Shinegori Togo	80
86	1971	Hajimete no Tabi		0
87	1971	To Love Again		0
88	1972	Tora-san's Dear Old Home	Shukichi	75
89	1974	The Fossil	Sunami	68
90	1974	Tora-san's Lovesick		73
91	1975	Aoi sanmyaku	Mr. Okamoto	0
92	1976	Melodies of a White Night		45
93	1982	The Challenge	Old Man	60
94	1982	Lake of Illusions	Yoshikane Nagao	15
95	1983	White Snake Enchantment	Jikan	65
96	1984	Mermaid Legend	Tatsuo	69
97	1984	Antonio Gaudí	Boada (voice)	72
98	1984	Farewell to the Ark	Old man	70
99	2002	Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'	Self	100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	Special Crime Investigation Front		100
2	1980	Shōgun	Muraji	77