Seiji Miyaguchi
Birthday: 1913-11-14 | Place of Birth: Tokyo, JapanSeiji 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.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
1983
White Snake Enchantment
as Jikan
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
1965
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
as Dr. Gulliver (voice)
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
as Tatewaki Komuro
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kyôritsu Ô
1958
Stakeout
as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective
1954
Seven Samurai
as Kyuzo