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Kôji Mitsui admits to war crimes in his penultimate onscreen role, an episode of the 1976 Toshiro Mifune series “Ronin in a Lawless Town.” #三井弘次

『女は二度生まれる』(1961) 『雁の寺』(1962) 『しとやかな獣』(1962) ☆ 山茶花究氏

The Nihilist, the Buddhist, and the Existentialist… The Three Natures of Man, embodied by Kôji Mitsui, Bokuzen Hidari, and Eijirô Tôno, in Akira Kurosawa’s “The Lower Depths” (1957). #三井弘次 #左卜全 #東野英治郎

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Kôji Mitsui with Toshiro Mifune and Ganjirô Nakamura, and with Mifune and Eijirô Tôno (with back to camera), in Kurosawa’s ensemble masterpiece “The Lower Depths” (1957). #三井弘次

Happy Birthday to the inimitable Toshirô Mifune! 🐐🐐🐐🐐 🙏🫡 #三船敏郎

Kôji Mitsui and Masao Wakahara in a somber early scene from Hideo Ôba’s 1950 adaptation of Takashi Nagai’s memoir “The Bells of Nagasaki,” depicting the consequences of Nagai’s first wartime exposure to radiation—examining X-rays in real time without the use of film. #三井弘次

A suspicious Kôji Mitsui, suited up for Shochiku’s splashy “Ejima and Ikushima.” Hideo Ôba included extensive theater scenes in this 1955 adaptation of a serialized novel about the scandal involving a kabuki actor and a lady of the shôgun’s harem who missed her curfew. #三井弘次

A masked Kôji Mitsui (then Hideo) alongside Tokuji Kobayashi and Kuniko Miyake at the main gate of Shochiku’s Ofuna Studio, in a 1940 studio mag. Ofuna would be nicknamed “House of Mitsui,” playing on Mitsui’s devotion—and the famous dynasty to which he wasn’t related. #三井弘次

"Shimazo (Kichijirô Ueda), a timid policeman who is Osugi's uncle"   #上田吉二郎 #どん底

After starring him in 1930’s silents, Ozu gave aging youth lead Hideo Mitsui small ensemble parts in “There Was A Father” (1941) and “A Hen In The Wind” (1948, pictured—now as Kôji Mitsui) before boosting his career resurgence with a showy role in 1956’s “Early Spring.” #三井弘次