Portrait of Seiji Miyaguchi

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

Filmography

1984
1984
Antonio Gaudí

as Boada (voice)

1984
1982
Lake of Illusions

as Yoshikane Nagao

1982
The Challenge

as Old Man

1980
Shōgun

as Muraji

1975
The Fossil

as Sunami

1975
Aoi sanmyaku

as Mr. Okamoto

1970
The Militarists

as Shinegori Togo

1968
My Brother, My Love

as Ginsaku Kitagawa

1968
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

as Den'nosuke Kakishima

1968
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

as Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu)

1967
Pomegranate Time

as Naokichi Kuwata

1967
Japan's Longest Day

as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

1965
Samurai Spy

as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa

1965
The Start of Life

as Tatsugoro Ishiguro

1965
Start Here

as Old Man

1965
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

as Dr. Gulliver (voice)

1965
Song of Farewell

as Masao Nomura

1965
Kwaidan

as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

1964
1964
Fumiko's Five Benefactors

as Detective (uncredited)

1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited)

1964
Night Scandal

as Daizo Suzuki

1964
The Naked Executive

as Heikichi Hamanaka

1964
Intentions of Murder

as Genji Miyata

1964
Night Scandal in Japan

as Detective Tasaka

1964
Pale Flower

as Funada

1964
Samurai from Nowhere

as Tatewaki Komuro

1963
Mother

as Doctor

1963
A House in the Quarter

as Sanzaemon Katagiri

1963
The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

as Shūhei Isomura

1963
Youth After School

as Shinkichi Yamaguchi

1963
1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Takichiro Sada

1962
The Broken Commandment

as School master

1962
The Inheritance

as Yoshida

1961
Miyamoto Musashi

as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke

1961
The Human Condition

as Kyôritsu Ô

1960
Get 'em All

as Takahashi

1960
The Bad Sleep Well

as Public Prosecutor Okakura

1960
1959
1959
Someday I'll Know

as Masao Shiroyama

1959
Farewell to Spring

as Akira's father

1959
1959
The Most Valuable Wife

as Rintaro Nonomiya

1958
Stakeout

as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective

1957
1957
Untamed Woman

as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother

1957
Tokyo Twilight

as Policeman

1957
Throne of Blood

as Phantom samurai

1956
Flowing

as Namie's Uncle

1956
Early Spring

as Yuzo Miura

1954
The Street Without Sun

as Okimi's father

1954
1953
The Last Embrace

as Gangster

1952
Ikiru

as Yakuza Boss

1951
Fireworks Over the Sea

as Gunzo Ishiguro

1951
Early Summer

as Nishiwaki

1951
The Good Fairy

as Assistant editor

1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

as Kohei Tsuzaki