
Rentaro Mikuni
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 20, 1923
- Died
- April 14, 2013 (aged 90)
- Birthplace
- Ota, Gunma, Japan
Biography
Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, January 20, 1923-April 14, 2013) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rentaro Mikuni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Filmography

The Rotten Wheelbarrow
Movie

Chronicle of My Mother
Movie · as Hayato

Someday
Movie

Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
Movie · as Chubei

Through the Mist
Movie · as (archive footage)

Free and Easy 20: Final
Movie

Free and Easy 19
Movie

Free and Easy 18
Movie

Free and Easy 17
Movie

Free and Easy 16
Movie · as Suzuki

Free and Easy 15
Movie

Free and Easy 14
Movie · as Suzuki Ichinosuke

The Wind Carpet
Movie · as Kinta Nakata

Free and Easy 13
Movie

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
Movie

Free and Easy 11
Movie

Will to Live
Movie · as Yasukichi

The Old Man and the Sea
Movie · as (voice)

Rainbow Cape
Movie

Free and Easy 10
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 9
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Oishinbo
Movie · as Yuzan Kaibara

Free and Easy 8
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Mitabi no kaikyô
Movie

The Friends
Movie · as Kihachi Denpo

Free and Easy 7
Movie

Free and Easy Special
Movie

Turning Point
Movie · as Urano

The Last Dance
Movie · as Buhei Mukai

Making of Daibyonin
Movie · as Self

Free and Easy 6
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto
Movie · as Self

Luminous Moss
Movie · as Headmaster / Captain

Basara: The Princess Goh
Movie · as Junsai

Free and Easy 5
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

My Sons
Movie · as Akio Asano

Free and Easy 4
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 3
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Rikyu
Movie · as Rikyu

Free and Easy 2
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
Movie · as Self

Wuthering Heights
Movie · as Takamaru

A Taxing Woman's Return
Movie · as Teppei Onisawa

Free and Easy
Movie · as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Shinran: Path to Purity
Movie

River of Fireflies
Movie

A Human Promise
Movie · as Ryôsaku Morimoto

Beyond the Shining Sea
Movie · as Takeya Oumi

Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Movie

The Fugitive Samurai
Movie

The Street of Desire
Movie · as Tadao Shimoda

Lone Wolf and Cub
Movie · as Yagyū Retsudō
子連れ狼
TV · 1 ep

The Women of Osaka Castle
Movie · as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The Go Masters
Movie · as 松波麟作

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Movie · as Hajime Sandaiji

Rennyo and His Mother
Movie

Auto Town
Movie

Sekigahara
TV · as Masanobu Honda · 3 eps

The Bear Storm
Movie

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Movie · as Hachiro Munakata

Nukata no Ōkimi
TV · 2 eps

Akai Shisen
TV · 2 eps

Vengeance Is Mine
Movie · as Shizuo Enokizu

Nomugi Pass
Movie

Never Give Up
Movie · as Kazunari Ohba

August Without Emperor
Movie · as Tameichiro Emi

Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
TV · as Koichiro dojima · 21 eps

Kazoku Netsu
TV · 2 eps

Mount Hakkoda
Movie · as Major Yamada

The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
Movie · as Sunao Kikutake

Sweet Revenge
Movie · as Kinzo Otsuka

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Movie

The Possessed
Movie

Barefoot Gen
Movie · as Father

The Inugami Family
Movie · as Sahei Inugami

Akai Unmei
TV · 28 eps

Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Movie · as Masaoka

Solar Eclipse
Movie · as Conservative MP

Waga seishun no toki
Movie

Himiko
Movie · as Nashime

The Tattered Banner
Movie · as Shozo Tanaka

Scalpel
Movie · as Shiro Kikukawa

Coup d'Etat
Movie · as Ikki Kita

Deeper Than Blue
Movie · as Yukiyoshi Tamiya

Zatoichi at Large
Movie · as Boss Tetsugoro

The Rendezvous
Movie · as Detective Yamamuro

Journey Into Solitude
Movie · as Kunitaro Matsuda

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Movie

Professional Killers
TV · 1 ep

Nemuri Kyoshiro
TV · 1 ep

3,000 Kilometer Trap
Movie

Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
Movie · as Baiken Shishido

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Movie · as Shigata Komijiro

Shadow of Deception
Movie · as Keitaro Nishida

Confessions Among Actresses
Movie · as Minakawa

The Earth is Born Again
Movie · as Eisuke Noda

Duel at Fort Ezo
Movie · as Shimbei Usa

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Movie · as Shigata Komijiro

City of Beasts
Movie · as Yusaku Ishihama

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Movie · as Kamo Serizawa

The Neon Taiheiki
Movie

Profound Desires of the Gods
Movie · as Nekichi Futori

Zatoichi the Outlaw
Movie · as Asagoro
剣
TV · as Asaemon Yamada · 1 ep

Captive's Island
Movie · as Daigoku

Glorious Fights
Movie · as Genichiro Gunji

The Threat
Movie · as Misawa

Thirst for Love
Movie · as Tetsuya Ezaki

Kwaidan
Movie · as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")

Tokyo Untouchable
Movie · as Naoto Nishiyama

A Fugitive from the Past
Movie · as Takichi Inukai

Tale of Japanese Burglars
Movie · as Gisuke Hayashida

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Movie · as Muneaki Takuan - Priest

Wolves, Pigs & Men
Movie · as Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brother

A Story from Echigo
Movie · as Gonsuke Sabu

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie · as Takuan

The Life of a Horse-Trader
Movie · as 片山米太郎

Futari dake no toride
Movie

The Life of Rikisha-Man
Movie

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
Movie · as Naoto, Nishiyama

Escape from Hell
Movie · as Shinpei

The King 2
Movie · as Sakita Sankichi

Tale of Army Brutality
Movie · as Yahichi Inumaru

Umineko ga tonde
Movie

The King
Movie · as Sankichi Sakata

Harakiri
Movie · as Kageyu Saito

The Christian Revolt
Movie · as Uemonsaku

The Broken Commandment
Movie · as Rentaro Inoko

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Movie · as Muneaki Takuan

The Escape
Movie

Hell's Kitchen
Movie

Like Fire is My Life
Movie

Fateful Birthplace
Movie

The Catch
Movie · as Kazumasa Takano

Miyamoto Musashi
Movie · as Muneaki Takuan

Run, Genta, Run!
Movie

City
Movie

The Stragglers
Movie

Devotion to Railway
Movie · as Yoshito Matsuzaki

The Great Road
Movie

Hunting Opium-Eaters
Movie

A Dead Drifter
Movie

Thus Another Day
Movie · as Kenzô Akada

The Song of the Cart
Movie

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie · as Newspaperman A

The Murderer Must Die
Movie · as Tetsuo Yazaki

The Undefeated Woman
Movie

Yoku
Movie

The Outsiders
Movie · as Takeshi Ohiwa

Wind, Woman and Road
Movie · as Sentaro

Night Drum
Movie · as Hikokurô Ogura

Face in the Dark
Movie · as Kijima

The Eagle and the Hawk
Movie · as Keizo Sasaki

Stepbrothers
Movie · as Hantaro Kido

But the Flesh is Weak
Movie · as Ichiro Kurakoshi

The Burmese Harp
Movie · as Captain Inouye

Dotanba
Movie

Wandering Shore
Movie

Phoenix
Movie · as Film actor (uncredited)

Evil Reward
Movie

Nikoyon monogatari
Movie

Crossroad
Movie · as Shōgo Ise

Bodyguard from Hell
Movie

The Three Faces
Movie · as Ken'ichirō Kishi

Striving to Live
Movie

The Beautiful Nuns
Movie

Policeman's Diary
Movie · as Patrolman Hanakawa

A Hole of My Own Making
Movie

Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Jiro Sone

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie

The Samurai of Edo
Movie

Vanished Glory
Movie

Good Son-in-Law
Movie

Turbid Youth
Movie

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie · as Matahachi

Farewell Rabaul
Movie · as Captain Katase

Itsuko to sono haha
Movie · as Yasukazu Sugi

Women's House
Movie
Super Hawk Volume I
Movie

Super Hawk Volume II
Movie

Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Movie

Escape Zone
Movie

About Love
Movie

Omatsuri hanjiro
Movie

Husband and Wife
Movie · as Ryota Takemura

Wife
Movie · as Tadashi Tanimura

The Lovers
Movie · as Sugawa

The Eagle of the Pacific
Movie · as Staff Officer (uncredited)

My Wonderful Yellow Car
Movie · as The burglar

The Red Light Military Base
Movie · as Koichi Kawanabe

The Blue Revolution
Movie

Reunion
Movie

Doctor's Day Off
Movie

Beauty and the Thief
Movie · as Kuroki no Jiro

Sword for Hire
Movie · as Tachibana Jurata

Shanghai Rose
Movie · as Manabe, First lieutenant

Adolescence
Movie · as Teacher Harada

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie

The Whisper of Spring
Movie

Boyhood
Movie · as Teacher Shimomura

The Good Fairy
Movie · as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter

Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie · as Tsuyoshi Yabuki

Beauty of Life
Movie

Story of Lightning
Movie


