Ken Mitsuishi

Japanese actor

Ken Mitsuishi
光石研
Born	(1961-09-26) September 26, 1961 (age 62) Yahata Nishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978 - present

Ken Mitsuishi (光石研, Mitsuishi Ken, born 26 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in films such as Chaos^[1] and Tokyo Playboy Club.^[2]

Filmography

Film

1980s

Tora's Tropical Fever (1980)
Foster Daddy, Tora! (1980)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
Tora-san, the Expert (1982)
Okinawan Boys (1983)
Tora-san's Island Encounter (1985)
Final Take (1986)

1990s

No Worries on the Recruit Front (1991)
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (1993)
Love Letter (1995)
Helpless (1996)
Swallowtail (1996)
The Pillow Book (1996), The Husband
Two Punks (1996)
The Eel (1997)
April Story (1998)
Tokyo Eyes (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Audition (1999)
Shady Glove (1999)

2000s

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)
Whiteout (2000)
Chaos (2000), Komiyama
Eureka (2000)
Hush! (2001), Shoji Kurita
2009 Lost Memories (2002), Hideyo
Border Line (2002)
KT (2002)
Harmful Insect (2002)
Dead End Run (2003)
Tokyo Noir (2004)
Lady Joker (2004)
Out of This World (2004)
Scrap Heaven (2005)
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005), Tetsuzo Shimabara
Aegis (2005)
Crickets (2006)
Sugar and Spice (2006)
The Pavillion Salamandre (2006), Morihiro Kagawa
Invisible Waves (2006), Lizard
Thank You (2006)
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Exte (2007)
Sad Vacation (2007)
Nightmare Detective 2 (2008), Takio Kagenuma
Tokyo! (2008)

2010s

Heaven's Story (2010), Shioya
Nude (2010), Enomoto
13 Assassins (2010)
Villain (2010)
Tokyo Oasis (2011)
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Himizu (2011)
A Man with Style (2011)^[3]
Rent-a-Cat (2012)
Tokyo Playboy Club (2012)
Bread of Happiness (2012)
Outrage Beyond (2012)
Dawn of a Filmmaker (2013)
The Backwater (2013)
Homeland (2014)
Three Stories of Love (2015)
The Big Bee (2015)
A Cappella (2016)
A Man Called Pirate (2016)
Natsumi's Fipanly (2016)
Shin Godzilla (2016), the governor of Tokyo
14 That Night (2016), Takashi's father
Golden Orchestra (2016)
Outrage Coda (2017), Gomi
Side Job (2017)
Before We Vanish (2017), Suzuki
Pumpkin and Mayonnaise (2017), Yasuhara
Evil and the Mask (2018), Sakakibara
My Friend A (2018)
A Forest of Wool and Steel (2018), Akino
Mori, The Artist's Habitat (2018), Asahina
The Chaplain (2018)
The Fable (2019), Hamada
Strawberry Song (2019)
Mio on the Shore (2019)
Ninkyō Gakuen (2019)
Listen to the Universe (2019)^[4]
Black School Rules (2019), Toshio Inoue
I Was a Secret Bitch (2019)
And Life Goes On: The Movie (2019)^[5]

2020s

A Beloved Wife (2020)
Blue, Painful, Fragile (2020)^[6]
A Balance (2021)^[7]
The Supporting Actors: The Movie (2021), himself
Hama no Asahi to Usotsuki-domo to (2021)^[8]
My Daddy (2021), Chu-san^[9]
One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022)^[10]
BL Metamorphosis (2022), Numata^[11]
In Love and Deep Water (2023)^[12]
Ripples (2023)^[13]
Dreaming in Between (2023)^[3]
Schoolyard Sparkles (2023)^[14]
All the Long Nights (2024)^[15]
Dear Family (2024), Eiji Ishiguro^[16]

Television

Oshin (1983)
Ghost Soup (1992)
Gift (1997)
Bayside Shakedown (1998)
The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters (2003), Shuichi Yoneyama
Yoshitsune (2005), Minamoto no Nakatsuna
Fūrin Kazan (2007), Yamamoto Sadahisa
Shingari (2015), Katase
Fukigen na Kajitsu (2016), Tetsushi Tsukui
Cold Case (2016), Tōru Kaneko
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
The Supporting Actors (2017), himself
Frankenstein's Love (2017), Keijirō Inaba
Hiyokko (2017), Gorō Fukuda
Shimokitazawa Die Hard (2017), himself
Rikuoh (2017), Tōru Arimura
Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017), Akechi Mitsuhide
Kiss that Kills (2018), Akira Dojima
The Supporting Actors 2 (2018), himself
When a Tree Falls (2018)
Designer Shibui Naoto no Kyūjitsu (2019), Naoto Shibui
And Life Goes On (2019)^[5]
Yell (2020), Yasutaka Sekiuchi
Our Sister's Soulmate (2020), Kikuo Kawakami^[17]
The Supporting Actors 3 (2021), himself
Pension Metsa (2021)
A Day-Off of Hana Sugisaki (2023)^[18]
The Days (2023)^[19]

Video games

Lost Judgment (2021), Akihiro Ehara^[20]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref
2016	37th Yokohama Film Festival	Best Supporting Actor	Three Stories of Love	Won	^[21]
2022	76th Mainichi Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor	A Balance	Nominated	^[22]

References

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