1954Winner
Best Performance
Seven Samurai
Seiji Miyaguchi
Actor
Tokyo, Japan
November 15, 1913
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1952Winner
Best Performance
Ikiru
1963Nominee
Best Performance
A House in the Quarter
Career Highlights
1957Highlight
Best Performance
Throne of Blood
1965Highlight
Best Performance
Kwaidan