Ken Mitsuishi

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]

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

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)[3]
• Black School Rules (2019), Toshio Inoue
• I Was a Secret Bitch (2019)

2020s

• A Beloved Wife (2020)
• Aokute, Itakute, Moroi (2020)[4]

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

References

1. Parkinson, David (October 22, 2004). "Chaos - Film review and movie reviews - Radio Times". Radio Times. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
2. HPriest (November 4, 2011). "First trailer for "Tokyo Playboy Club" revealed". TokyoHive. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
3. "Listen to the Universe". TIFF. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
4. "吉沢亮×杉咲花W主演作「青くて痛くて脆い」に岡山天音、松本穂香、清水尋也ら出演". Natalie. Retrieved April 16, 2020.

External links

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