BIO

Seiji Miyaguchi | 宮口精二 was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1913.   His father was a carpenter.

He began his career in Japanese theatre in 1933, at the age of 20.

Miyaguchi made his film debut in Akira Kurosawa’s Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (1945) and remained with his stock company through 1960.

Miyaguchi received the Mainichi Film Award for Supporting Actor for his performance in Seven Samurai (1954).

After more than 90 films, his last picture was released in 1986.

A baseball enthusiast, Miyaguchi spent many weekends as a home plate umpire for Japan’s amateur leagues in Tokyo.

He and his wife Ari raised a son, Tomo Miyaguchi, who, beginning in the 1990s, has worked as a Japan advisor for several Hollywood films.

Miyaguchi died of lung cancer in 1985, at the age of 71.

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