Rentaro Mikuni

Rentaro Mikuni
Born	January 20, 1923 (1923-01-20) (age 89) Gunma, Japan
Occupation	Actor

Rentaro Mikuni (三國連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō^?, born January 20, 1923) is a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He has appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and has 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.^[1]^[2] Kōichi Satō is his son.

Filmography

(incomplete)

Samurai I : Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
(警察日記 Keisatsu nikki), literally: Policeman's Diary (1955)
A Hole of My Own Making (自分の穴の中で Jibun no ana no nakade) (1955)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Harakiri (1962)
Kwaidan (1965)
Himiko (1974)
Kiri-no-hata (1977)
Hakkodasan (1977)
Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Ningen no yakusoku (1986)
Shinran: Path to Purity (1987 - directed)
A Taxing Woman 2 (1988)
Tsuribaka nisshi (1988)
Wuthering Heights (1988)
Rikyu (1989)
Tsuribaka nisshi 3 (1990)
Tsuribaka nisshi 2 (1989)
Tsuribaka nisshi 4 (1991)
Musuko (1991)
Luminous Moss (1992)
Tsuribaka nisshi 6 (1993)
Daibyonin (1993)
Tsuribaka nisshi 7 (1994)
Mitabi no kaikyô (1995)
Taiga no itteki (2001)

References

^ "ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー" (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1960/. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
^ "ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー" (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1989/. Retrieved 2010-04-08.

External links

Rentaro Mikuni at the Internet Movie Database

Awards

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor

Toshirō Mifune (1951) · Hisaya Morishige (1955) · Keiji Sada (1956) · Frankie Sakai (1957) · Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1958) · Hiroyuki Nagato (1959) · Rentaro Mikuni (1960) · Toshirō Mifune (1961) · Tatsuya Nakadai (1962) · Yorozuya Kinnosuke (1963) · Keiju Kobayashi (1964) · Toshirō Mifune (1965) · Hajime Hana (1966) · Bunta Sugawara (1975) · Tetsuya Watari (1976) · Ken Takakura (1977) · Ken Ogata (1978) · Tomisaburo Wakayama (1979) · Tatsuya Nakadai (1980) · Toshiyuki Nagashima (1981) · Kiyoshi Atsumi (1982) · Ken Ogata (1983) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1984) · Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985) · Kunie Tanaka (1986) · Takanori Jinnai (1987) · Hajime Hana (1988) · Rentaro Mikuni (1989) · Yoshio Harada (1990) · Naoto Takenaka (1991) · Masahiro Motoki (1992) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1993) · Eiji Okuda (1994) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1995) · Kōji Yakusho (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Takeshi Kitano (1998) · Ken Takakura (1999) · Yūji Oda (2000) · Mansai Nomura (2001) · Kōichi Satō (2002) · Toshiyuki Nishida (2003) · Akira Terao (2004) · Hiroyuki Sanada (2005) · Ken Watanabe (2006) · Ryō Kase (2007) · Masahiro Motoki (2008)

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Ken Takakura (1978) · Ken Ogata (1979) · Tomisaburo Wakayama (1980) · Ken Takakura (1981) · Ken Takakura (1982) · Mitsuru Hirata (1983) · Ken Ogata (1984) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1985) · Minoru Chiaki (1986) · Ken Ogata (1987) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1988) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1989) · Rentaro Mikuni (1990) · Ittoku Kishibe (1991) · Rentaro Mikuni (1992) · Masahiro Motoki (1993) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1994) · Kōichi Satō (1995) · Rentaro Mikuni (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Kōji Yakusho (1998) · Akira Emoto (1999) · Ken Takakura (2000) · Akira Terao (2001) · Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) · Hiroyuki Sanada (2003) · Kiichi Nakai (2004) · Akira Terao (2005) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2006) · Ken Watanabe (2007) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2008) · Masahiro Motoki (2009) · Ken Watanabe (2010)

Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Hideji Ōtaki (1976) · Katō Takeshi (1977) · Tsunehiko Watase (1978) · Rentaro Mikuni (1979) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1980) · Katsuo Nakamura (1981) · Akira Emoto (1982) · Jūzō Itami (1983) · Kaku Takashina (1984) · Tomokazu Miura (1985) · Kei Suma (1986) · Masahiko Tsugawa (1987) · Tsurutarō Kataoka (1988) · Yoshio Harada (1989) · Renji Ishibashi (1990) · Hiroshi Kanbe (1991) · Takehiro Murata (1992) · Ittoku Kishibe (1993) · Kiichi Nakai (1994) · Etsushi Toyokawa (1995) · Tetsuya Watari (1996) · Masahiko Nishimura (1997) · Ren Osugi (1998) · Kippei Shiina (1999) · Tadanobu Asano (2000) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2001) · Ryo Ishibashi (2002) · Hiroyuki Miyasako (2003) · Yoshido Harada (2004) · Shinichi Tsutsumi (2005) · Teruyuki Kagawa (2006) · Shirō Itō (2007) · Masato Sakai (2008) · Eita (2009)

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Name	Mikuni, Rentaro
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Date of birth	January 20, 1923
Place of birth	Gunma, Japan
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