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.
Seven Samurai
as KyuzoA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Ikiru
as Yakuza BossKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Throne of Blood
as Phantom samuraiReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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Kwaidan
as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kyôritsu ÔAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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Early Summer
as NishiwakiA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor OkakuraIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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Tokyo Twilight
as PolicemanTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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Early Spring
as Yuzo MiuraA young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless...
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Pale Flower
as FunadaA gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as MatayanIn Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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The Challenge
as Old ManRick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the...
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White Snake Enchantment
as JikanUta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Kohei TsuzakiIn this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Foreign Minister Shigenori TogoFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Admiral Yamamoto
as ItoAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
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Mermaid Legend
as TatsuoAfter a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five...
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Intentions of Murder
as Genji MiyataThe neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Bamboo craftsman KisukeThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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The Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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Flowing
as Namie's UncleOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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Samurai Spy
as Jinnai-Kazutaka HorikawaYears of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke...
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Black River
as KinA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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Farewell to the Ark
as Old manA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
as Takichiro SadaIn this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a...
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The Inheritance
as YoshidaA dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose...
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Untamed Woman
as Sotaro, Oshima's older brotherA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Bamboo craftsman KisukeIn this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the...
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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
as Dr. Gulliver (voice)The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets...
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Stakeout
as Yuji Shimooka, the police detectiveTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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Three-Fingered Detective
as uncreditedBeing acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding...
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Night Scandal in Japan
as Detective TasakaMayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in...
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Punishment Room
as uncreditedShimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his...
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The Broken Commandment
as School masterUshimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...
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Farewell to Spring
as Akira's fatherFive longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not...
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Antonio Gaudí
as Boada (voice)Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing...
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Lake of Illusions
as Yoshikane NagaoA woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
as uncreditedReputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô...
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Samurai from Nowhere
as Tatewaki KomuroMisawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of...
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Deep River Melody
as uncreditedA poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's...
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The Underworld
as uncreditedYakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become...
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Melodies of a White Night
as uncreditedA Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as uncreditedKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as Gunzo IshiguroA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as ShukichiWhile Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young...
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A House in the Quarter
as Sanzaemon KatagiriWith her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a...
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Night Butterflies
as uncreditedA traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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The Fossil
as SunamiAn industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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The Twilight Story
as uncreditedIn this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...
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A Secret Rendezvous
as YuichiroAfter witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
as uncreditedAfter Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs...
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The Story of Pure Love
as uncreditedJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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The Good Fairy
as Assistant editorThe wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to...
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To Love Again
as uncreditedA Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Someday I'll Know
as Masao ShiroyamaA modern love story involving different affairs.
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Escape from Hell
as UsukeThis suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...
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Pomegranate Time
as Naokichi KuwataComedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Our Happiness Alone
as uncreditedMototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother,...
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That Guy and I
as uncreditedAsada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's...
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The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
as Shūhei IsomuraAzusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi,...
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Warrior of the Wind
as uncreditedA suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and...
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Fumiko's Five Benefactors
as Detective (uncredited)A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.
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Samurai of the Great Earth
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".
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Mother
as DoctorA divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life...
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Tokyo Omnibus
as uncreditedThe story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...
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Get 'em All
as TakahashiGang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother...
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Raised in a Palace
as TsukadaSet in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young...
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Accomplice
as uncreditedBased on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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The Start of Life
as Tatsugoro IshiguroA young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father...
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Goodbye to Glory
as HikochoA story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
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The Naked Executive
as Heikichi HamanakaThe executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work",...
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Irohanihoheto
as uncreditedThe anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano,...
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Ah Special Attack Corps
as uncreditedDepicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic...
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Youth After School
as Shinkichi Yamaguchi"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that...
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The Last Embrace
as GangsterYukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two...
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Song of Farewell
as Masao NomuraAfter her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as...
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Shōgun
as MurajiAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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