Actor · Acting

Rentaro Mikuni

Born 1923-01-20

Died 2013-04-14

📍 Ota, Gunma, Japan

Rentaro Mikuni (三國連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) 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.

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Filmography 199

Chronicle of My Mother

Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm

Free and Easy 20: Final

Through the Mist

as (archive footage)

Free and Easy 19

Free and Easy 18

Free and Easy 17

Free and Easy 16

Free and Easy 15

Free and Easy 14

as Suzuki Ichinosuke

The Wind Carpet

as Kinta Nakata

A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

Free and Easy 11

The Old Man and the Sea

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 10

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 9

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 8

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

as Yuzan Kaibara

Mitabi no kaikyô

Free and Easy 7

Free and Easy Special

as Kihachi Denpo

Free and Easy 6

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto

Making of Daibyonin

Free and Easy 5

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

as Headmaster / Captain

Basara: The Princess Goh

Free and Easy 4

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 3

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Free and Easy 2

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

as Ichinosuke Suzuki

Wuthering Heights

The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"

A Taxing Woman's Return

as Teppei Onisawa

Shinran: Path to Purity

River of Fireflies

A Human Promise

as Ryôsaku Morimoto

Beyond the Shining Sea

Kimi ga kagayaku toki

The Street of Desire

as Tadao Shimoda

Lone Wolf and Cub

as Yagyū Retsudō

The Fugitive Samurai

The Women of Osaka Castle

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

as 松波麟作

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

as Hajime Sandaiji

Rennyo and His Mother

as Masanobu Honda

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely

as Hachiro Munakata

Nukata no Ōkimi

Vengeance Is Mine

as Shizuo Enokizu

Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu

as Koichiro dojima

as Kazunari Ohba

August Without Emperor

as Tameichiro Emi

as Kinzo Otsuka

The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao

as Sunao Kikutake

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

as Major Yamada

The Inugami Family

as Sahei Inugami

as Conservative MP

Two in the Amsterdam Rain

as Shiro Kikukawa

The Tattered Banner

as Shozo Tanaka

Deeper Than Blue

as Yukiyoshi Tamiya

Journey Into Solitude

as Kunitaro Matsuda

Nemuri Kyoshiro

Professional Killers

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

as Detective Yamamuro

Zatoichi at Large

as Boss Tetsugoro

Confessions Among Actresses

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

as Shigata Komijiro

3,000 Kilometer Trap

The Earth is Born Again

Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death

as Baiken Shishido

Shadow of Deception

as Keitaro Nishida

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

as Shigata Komijiro

as Yusaku Ishihama

Duel at Fort Ezo

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

as Kamo Serizawa

Profound Desires of the Gods

as Nekichi Futori

Zatoichi the Outlaw

Glorious Fights

as Genichiro Gunji

Captive's Island

Thirst for Love

as Tetsuya Ezaki

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

as Muneaki Takuan - Priest

Tale of Japanese Burglars

as Gisuke Hayashida

Tokyo Untouchable

as Naoto Nishiyama

A Fugitive from the Past

as Takichi Inukai

as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")

Wolves, Pigs & Men

as Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brother

A Story from Echigo

as Gonsuke Sabu

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple

as Sakita Sankichi

The Life of a Horse-Trader

as 片山米太郎

Tale of Army Brutality

as Yahichi Inumaru

The Life of Rikisha-Man

Futari dake no toride

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

as Naoto, Nishiyama

Escape from Hell

Umineko ga tonde

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

as Muneaki Takuan

as Kageyu Saito

The Broken Commandment

as Rentaro Inoko

Shiro Amakusa: The Christian Rebel

as Kazumasa Takano

Run, Genta, Run!

Fateful Birthplace

Like Fire is My Life

Miyamoto Musashi

as Muneaki Takuan

Devotion to Railway

as Yoshito Matsuzaki

Hunting Opium-Eaters

The Murderer Must Die

as Tetsuo Yazaki

Thus Another Day

as Kenzô Akada

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

as Newspaperman A

The Song of the Cart

as Takeshi Ohiwa

The Undefeated Woman

Face in the Dark

as Hikokurô Ogura

Wind, Woman and Road

But the Flesh is Weak

as Ichiro Kurakoshi

The Eagle and the Hawk

as Keizo Sasaki

as Hantaro Kido

Nikoyon monogatari

Ryûri no kishi

as (Uncredited)

The Burmese Harp

as Captain Inouye

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

The Samurai of Edo

A Hole of My Own Making

The Beautiful Nuns

Till We Meet Again

Bodyguard from Hell

Striving to Live

Policeman's Diary

as Patrolman Hanakawa

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Good Son-in-Law

Itsuko to sono haha

as Yasukazu Sugi

Farewell Rabaul

as Captain Katase

Red-Light Bases

as Koichi Kawanabe

Omatsuri hanjiro

The Eagle of the Pacific

as Staff Officer (uncredited)

Aijô ni tsuite

as Tadashi Tanimura

Koibito-tachi no iru machi

Husband and Wife

as Ryota Takemura

My Wonderful Yellow Car

The Whisper of Spring

Beauty and the Thief

as Kuroki no Jiro

as Teacher Harada

as Manabe, First lieutenant

as Tachibana Jurata

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Doctor's Day Off

Story of Lightning

Fireworks Over the Sea

as Tsuyoshi Yabuki

as Teacher Shimomura

as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporter