Ken Mitsuishi

Ken Mitsuishi
光石 研
Born	(1961-09-26) September 26, 1961 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 and Tokyo Playboy Club.

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)
• 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)
• Black School Rules (2019), Toshio Inoue
• I Was a Secret Bitch (2019)

2020s

• A Beloved Wife (2020)
• Aokute, Itakute, Moroi (2020)
• A Balance (2021)
• The Supporting Actors: The Movie (2021), himself

Television

• Oshin (1983)
• Ghost Soup (1992)
• Gift (1997)
• Bayside Shakedown (1998)
• 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
• Rikuō (2017), Tōru Arimura
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017), Akechi Mitsuhide
• Todome no Kiss (2018), Akira Dojima
• The Supporting Actors 2 (2018), himself
• When a Tree Falls (2018)
• Designer Shibui Naoto no Kyūjitsu (2019), Naoto Shibui
• Yell (2020), Yasutaka Sekiuchi
• Our Sister's Soulmate (2020), Kikuo Kawakami
• The Supporting Actors 3 (2021), himself
• Pension Metsa (2021)

External links

• Official profile (in Japanese)
• Ken Mitsuishi at IMDb