--- name: "Seiji Miyaguchi" canonical: "https://film.one/person/seiji-miyaguchi" fi1m_id: "seiji-miyaguchi" imdb_id: "nm0594348" tmdb_id: 20829 wikidata_id: "Q922612" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 November 1913" died: "12 April 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 92 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-25T07:47:35.923164+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Seiji Miyaguchi ## Identity Seiji Miyaguchi - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/seiji-miyaguchi - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** seiji-miyaguchi - **IMDb ID:** nm0594348 - **TMDB ID:** 20829 - **Wikidata ID:** Q922612 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiji_Miyaguchi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922612, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594348/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20829 Actor. Born 15 November 1913 in Tokyo, Japan. Died 12 April 1985. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 November 1913, Tokyo, Japan - **Died:** 12 April 1985 - **Active:** 1952–1957 - **Also known as:** 宫口精二, Сэйдзи Миягути - **Average Fi1m score:** 92, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 92 to 87 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, History 1 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $105m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiji_Miyaguchi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922612, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594348/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20829 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Seven Samurai*](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md) (95) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese stage and film actor. Born in Tokyo, he graduated from Tokyo Municipal Junior High School and co-founded the Bungakuza theatre troupe in 1937. He received the Mainichi Theater Award in 1949 for his stage work. Miyaguchi began appearing in films from 1945. He is known for roles in Akira Kurosawa's *Seven Samurai* (1954) as Kyuzo, *Ikiru* (1952) as a yakuza boss, and *Throne of Blood* (1957), as well as films by directors including Yasujirō Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi. He received the Mainichi Film Concours Award for Best Supporting Actor for *Seven Samurai*. His later credits include the television series *Shōgun* (1980). Miyaguchi died in 1985. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Throne of Blood* (1957), Fi1m 88, as Phantom samurai — [page](https://film.one/film/throne-of-blood.md) - *Seven Samurai* (1954), Fi1m 95, as Kyuzo — [page](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md) - *Ikiru* (1952), Fi1m 92, as Yakuza Boss — [page](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md) ## Complete filmography (117) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Farewell to the Ark* (1984), as Old man - *Antonio Gaudí* (1984), as Boada (voice) - *Mermaid Legend* (1984), as Tatsuo - *White Snake Enchantment* (1983), as Jikan - *Lake of Illusions* (1982), as Yoshikane Nagao - *The Challenge* (1982), as Old Man - *Shōgun* (1980), series, as Muraji - *Special Crime Investigation Front* (1977), series, Actor - *Melodies of a White Night* (1976), Actor - *The Fossil* (1975), as Sunami - *Aoi sanmyaku* (1975), as Mr. Okamoto - *Tora-san's Lovesick* (1974), Actor - *Tora-san's Dear Old Home* (1972), as Shukichi - *To Love Again* (1971), Actor - *Hajimete no Tabi* (1971), Actor - *The Militarists* (1970), as Shinegori Togo - *My Brother, My Love* (1968), as Ginsaku Kitagawa - *Admiral Yamamoto* (1968), as Ito - *Young Guy in Rio* (1968), Actor - *Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant* (1968), as Den'nosuke Kakishima - *Five Gents and Karate Grandpa* (1968), as Den'nosuke Kakishima (Atsuko's Father, Wealthy Man in Takamatsu) - *Pomegranate Time* (1967), as Naokichi Kuwata - *Japan's Longest Day* (1967), as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo - *River of Forever* (1967), Actor - *Punch Guy* (1966), Actor - *Samurai Spy* (1965), as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa - *The Start of Life* (1965), as Tatsugoro Ishiguro - *Start Here* (1965), as Old Man - *Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon* (1965), as Dr. Gulliver (voice) - *Song of Farewell* (1965), as Masao Nomura - *The Dedicated Gunman* (1965), Actor - *Kwaidan* (1965), as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea") - *The Radish and the Carrot* (1965), Actor - *The Enforcer* (1964), Actor - *Raised in a Palace* (1964), as Tsukada - *The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers* (1964), as Detective (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de ...") (uncredited) - *Fumiko's Five Benefactors* (1964), as Detective (uncredited) - *Night Scandal* (1964), as Daizo Suzuki - *The Naked Executive* (1964), as Heikichi Hamanaka - *Intentions of Murder* (1964), as Genji Miyata - *Our Happiness Alone* (1964), Actor - *Night Scandal in Japan* (1964), as Detective Tasaka - *Pale Flower* (1964), as Funada - *Samurai from Nowhere* (1964), as Tatewaki Komuro - *Warrior of the Wind* (1964), Actor - *Mother* (1963), as Doctor - *A House in the Quarter* (1963), as Sanzaemon Katagiri - *The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji* (1963), as Shūhei Isomura - *Youth After School* (1963), as Shinkichi Yamaguchi - *La Fée Diabolique* (1963), Actor - *Escape from Hell* (1963), as Usuke - *Twin Sisters of Kyoto* (1963), as Takichiro Sada - *Attack Squadron* (1963), as Onishi - *Anything For Success* (1962), Actor - *Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights* (1962), as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke - *Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi* (1962), Actor - *The Broken Commandment* (1962), as School master - *The Inheritance* (1962), as Yoshida - *Structure of Hate* (1961), Actor - *That Guy and I* (1961), Actor - *Miyamoto Musashi* (1961), as Bamboo craftsman Kisuke - *Enraptured* (1961), Actor - *Get 'em All* (1960), as Takahashi - *The War Without Weapons* (1960), as Mochizuki - *The Last Trump Card* (1960), as Yoshimura - *The Bad Sleep Well* (1960), as Public Prosecutor Okakura - *Deep River Melody* (1960), Actor - *The Twilight Story* (1960), Actor - *Irohanihoheto* (1960), Actor - *Banana* (1960), Actor - *Goodbye to Glory* (1960), as Hikocho - *Ah Special Attack Corps* (1960), Actor - *A Secret Rendezvous* (1959), as Yuichiro - *Tokyo Omnibus* (1959), Actor - *Someday I'll Know* (1959), as Masao Shiroyama - *Farewell to Spring* (1959), as Akira's father - *Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan* (1959), Actor - *Jōen* (1959), Actor - *The Most Valuable Wife* (1959), as Rintaro Nonomiya - *The Human Condition I: No Greater Love* (1959), as Kyôritsu Ô - *Accomplice* (1958), Actor - *The Spell of the Hidden Gold* (1958), as Senjuro Takebe - *In Self-Defense* (1958), Actor - *The Ballad of Narayama* (1958), as Matayan - *The Rickshaw Man* (1958), Actor - *Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen* (1958), Actor - *Stakeout* (1958), as Yuji Shimooka, the police detective - *Black River* (1957), as Kin - *The Story of Pure Love* (1957), Actor - *A Dangerous Hero* (1957), as Sasai - *Akuma no kao* (1957), Actor - *Untamed Woman* (1957), as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother - *Hateful Things* (1957), Actor - *Tokyo Twilight* (1957), as Policeman - *Night Butterflies* (1957), Actor - *Throne of Blood* (1957), as Phantom samurai — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/throne-of-blood.md) - *Flowing* (1956), as Namie's Uncle - *In Case of One Woman* (1956), as Tomoki Hisamoto - *Will-o'-the-Wisp* (1956), Actor - *Punishment Room* (1956), Actor - *The Underworld* (1956), Actor - *Early Spring* (1956), as Yuzo Miura - *Samurai of the Great Earth* (1956), Actor - *Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made* (1955), Actor - *Frame of Snow* (1955), as Ishiyama (Engineer) - *The Street Without Sun* (1954), as Okimi's father - *Seven Samurai* (1954), as Kyuzo — Fi1m 95, [page](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md) - *An Inlet of Muddy Water* (1953), Actor - *The Last Embrace* (1953), as Gangster - *Ikiru* (1952), as Yakuza Boss — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md) - *Beauty of Life* (1951), Actor - *Fireworks Over the Sea* (1951), as Gunzo Ishiguro - *Early Summer* (1951), as Nishiwaki - *The Good Fairy* (1951), as Assistant editor - *Three-Fingered Detective* (1947), Actor - *A Descendant of Urashima Taro* (1946), Actor - *Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two* (1945), as Kohei Tsuzaki ## Gallery - ![Seiji Miyaguchi](https://film.one/media/person/59906/gallery-5f9e20c5f1ad.jpg) Seiji Miyaguchi — 演劇出版社　撮影者不明, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Michiko_Saga_and_Seiji_Miyaguchi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![『七人の侍』。左から三船敏郎、宮口精二、千秋実。 (1953)](https://film.one/media/person/59906/gallery-d6cd50760390.jpg) 『七人の侍』。左から三船敏郎、宮口精二、千秋実。 (1953) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Sekai-Geino-Gaho-1953-August-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![『七人の侍』 (1953)](https://film.one/media/person/59906/gallery-9003842828f1.jpg) 『七人の侍』 (1953) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Sekai-Geino-Gaho-1953-August-6.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - Medal with Purple Ribbon 1983: Medal with Purple Ribbon (won) - Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor 1955: Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor (won), for *Seven Samurai* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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