Birthday
1913/11/14
Day of death
1985/04/12 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also know as
宫口精二, Сэйдзи Миягути
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.
(1965) Kwaidan
as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
(1975) Aoi sanmyaku
as Mr. Okamoto
(1959) The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kyôritsu Ô
(1960) The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor Okakura
(1963) Youth After School
as Shinkichi Yamaguchi
(1958) Stakeout
as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective
(1963) Mother
as Doctor
(1964) Pale Flower
as Funada
(1964) Fumiko's Five Benefactors
as Detective (uncredited)
(1945) Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Kohei Tsuzaki
(1967) Japan's Longest Day
as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
(1965) Samurai Spy
as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
(1976) Melodies of a White Night
as ---
(1951) Early Summer
as Nishiwaki
(1964) The Naked Executive
as Heikichi Hamanaka
(1962) Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
as ---
(1964) Night Scandal
as Daizo Suzuki
(1963) Escape from Hell
as Usuke
(1967) Pomegranate Time
as Naokichi Kuwata
(1957) Black River
as Kin
(1964) Samurai from Nowhere
as Tatewaki Komuro
(1962) The Broken Commandment
as School master
(1971) Hajimete no Tabi
as ---
(1984) Mermaid Legend
as Tatsuo
(1964) Night Scandal in Japan
as Detective Tasaka
(1970) The Militarists
as Shinegori Togo
(1957) A Dangerous Hero
as ---
(1957) 悪魔の顔
as ---
(1967) River of Forever
as ---
(1962) Gekkyū dorobō
as ---
(1959) A Secret Rendezvous
as Yuichiro
(1982) The Challenge
as Old Man
(1952) Ikiru
as Yakuza Boss
(1957) Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
(1956) Samurai of the Great Earth
as ---
(1956) Will-o'-the-Wisp
as ---
(1984) Farewell to the Ark
as Old man
(1964) The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)
(1956) Flowing
as Namie's Uncle
(1958) The Ballad of Narayama
as Matayan
(1983) White Snake Enchantment
as Jikan
(1962) The Inheritance
as Yoshida
(1971) To Love Again
as ---
(1960) Irohanihoheto
as ---
(1957) Night Butterflies
as ---
(1964) Raised in a Palace
as Tsukada
(1951) The Good Fairy
as Assistant editor
(1959) Farewell to Spring
as Akira's father
(1960) Deep River Melody
as ---
(1960) The Twilight Story
as ---
(1963) Twin Sisters of Kyoto
as Takichiro Sada
(1958) The Spell of the Hidden Gold
as Senjuro Takebe
(1953) The Last Embrace
as Gangster
(1961) Enraptured
as ---
(1959) Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as ---
(1956) Punishment Room
as ---
(1965) Song of Farewell
as Masao Nomura
(1963) A House in the Quarter
as Sanzaemon Katagiri
(1960) Goodbye to Glory
as Hikocho
(1964) Warrior of the Wind
as ---
(1984) Antonio Gaudí
as Boada (voice)
(1964) Our Happiness Alone
as ---
(1961) Miyamoto Musashi
as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
(1962) Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
(1972) Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as Shukichi
(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
as Self
(1956) The Underworld
as ---
(1958) Accomplice
as ---
(1960) Get 'em All
as Takahashi
(1959) Tokyo Omnibus
as ---
(1965) The Start of Life
as Tatsugoro Ishiguro
(1946) A Descendant of Urashima Taro
as ---
(1965) The Radish and the Carrot
as ---
(1974) The Fossil
as Sunami
(1959) Someday I'll Know
as Masao Shiroyama
(1963) The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
as Shūhei Isomura
(1968) My Brother, My Love
as Ginsaku Kitagawa
(1964) Intentions of Murder
as Genji Miyata
(1959) The Most Valuable Wife
as Rintaro Nonomiya
(1964) The Enforcer
as ---
(1957) Tokyo Twilight
as Policeman
(1957) The Story of Pure Love
as ---
(1957) Untamed Woman
as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother
(1958) The Rickshaw Man
as ---
(1951) Fireworks Over the Sea
as Gunzo Ishiguro
(1961) That Guy and I
as ---
(1954) Seven Samurai
as Kyuzo
(1974) Tora-san's Lovesick
as ---
(1982) Lake of Illusions
as Yoshikane Nagao
(1965) Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
as Dr. Gulliver (voice)
(1968) Admiral Yamamoto
as Ito
(1954) The Street Without Sun
as Okimi's father
(1956) Early Spring
as Yuzo Miura
(1947) Three-Fingered Detective
as ---
(1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water
as ---
(1951) Beauty of Life
as ---
(1965) The Dedicated Gunman
as ---
(1960) Ah Special Attack Corps
as ---
(1959) Jōen
as ---
(1977) Special Crime Investigation Front
as ---
(1980) Shōgun
as Muraji