Ken Mitsuishi
Born September 26, 1961 is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in films such as Chaos and Tokyo Playboy Club.
Also recorded as Mitsuishi Ken
Ken Mitsuishi
- Name
- Ken Mitsuishi
- Born
- 26 September 1961
- Birthplace
- Yahata Nishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
- Occupation
- Actor
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Name — Ken Mitsuishi • Native Name — 光石 研 • Born — 26 September 1961 • Birthplace — Yahata Nishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1978 - present
Filmography
Filmography
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Television dramas
Television dramas
• 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) • Yell (2020), Yasutaka Sekiuchi • Our Sister's Soulmate (2020), Kikuo Kawakami • The Supporting Actors 3 (2021), himself • Pension Metsa (2021) • Roppongi Class (2022), Shinji Miyabe • A Day-Off of Hana Sugisaki (2023) • The Days (2023) • Minami-kun ga Koibito!? (2024), Shinichi Yamataka • The Big Chase: Tokyo SSBC Files (2025), Shigeru Kuzuhara • Chosen Home (2025), Jin Ichigaya • Sins of Kujo (2026), Nobuteru Nagaragi
Video games
Video games
• Lost Judgment (2021), Akihiro Ehara
Life and career
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Life and career
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1961
Ken Mitsuishi born at Yahatanishi-ku.
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) • Fuon (2004) • 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) • Kaidan (2007) • Nightmare Detective 2 (2008), Takio Kagenuma • Tokyo! (2008) • Oppai Volleyball (2009) • 2010s • Heaven's Story (2010), Shioya • Nude (2010), Enomoto • 13 Assassins (2010) • Villain (2010) • Wandering Home (2010), Kito Onigashira • 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) • And Life Goes On: The Movie (2019) • 2020s • A Beloved Wife (2020) • Blue, Painful, Fragile (2020) • A Balance (2021) • The Supporting Actors: The Movie (2021), himself • The Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za (2021) • My Daddy (2021), Chu-san • One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022) • BL Metamorphosis (2022), Numata • In Love and Deep Water (2023) • Ripples (2023) • Dreaming in Between (2023) • Schoolyard Sparkles (2023) • All the Long Nights (2024) • Dear Family (2024), Eiji Ishiguro • The Hotel of My Dream (2024) • Cells at Work! (2024) • BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues (2025) • On Summer Sand (2025), Takanobu Mochida • Frontline: Yokohama Bay (2025), Todoroki • Sham (2025), Shigeharu Danta • Night Flower (2025), Shinji Tada • Until We Meet Again (2026), Minoru Bando • Love≠Comedy (2026), Kenji Yamamura • All That Exists (2027), Koichi Fujishima • Sins of Kujo: The Movie (2027), Nobuteru Nagaregi
Awards and nominations
• Year — Award — Category — Work(s) — Result — Ref. References • 2016 — 37th Yokohama Film Festival — Best Supporting Actor — Three Stories of Love • 2022 — 76th Mainichi Film Awards — Best Supporting Actor — A Balance • 2025 — 18th Asian Film Awards — Best Supporting Actor — All the Long Nights
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- 1.Parkinson, David. Chaos - Film review and movie reviews - Radio Times. Radio Times. October 22, 2004.
- 2.HPriest. First trailer for "Tokyo Playboy Club" revealed. TokyoHive. November 4, 2011.
- 3.男はつらいよ 寅次郎ハイビスカスの花. Eiga.com.
- 4.怪談. allcinema.
- 5.おっぱいバレー. Eiga.com.
- 6.酔いがさめたら、うちに帰ろう。. Eiga.com.
- 7.シン・ゴジラ. Eiga.com.
- 8.Listen to the Universe. TIFF.
- 9.劇場版 そして、生きる. Eiga.com.
- 10.喜劇 愛妻物語. Eiga.com.
- 11.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.
- 12.由宇子の天秤. Eiga.com.
- 13.浜の朝日と嘘つきどもと. Eiga.com.
- 14.ムロツヨシ初主演映画で奈緒が妻役に、毎熊克哉、臼田あさ美、光石研も出演. Natalie.
- 15.やがて海へと届く. Eiga.com.
- 16.メタモルフォーゼの縁側. Eiga.com.
- 17.吉沢亮×宮崎あおい×坂元裕二、Netflix映画「クレイジークルーズ」製作決定. Natalie.
- 18.波紋. Eiga.com.
- 19.光石研、12年ぶりの映画単独主演作「逃げきれた夢」6月公開! 監督は「お嬢ちゃん」二ノ宮隆太郎. Eiga.com.
- 20.光る校庭. Eiga.com.
- 21.夜明けのすべて. Eiga.com.
- 22.大泉洋主演「ディア・ファミリー」に有村架純、満島真之介、光石研ら 新キャスト発表. Eiga.com.
- 23.私にふさわしいホテル. Eiga.com.
- 24.はたらく細胞. Eiga.com.
- 25.BAUS 映画から船出した映画館. Eiga.com.
- 26.オダギリジョー×髙石あかり×松たか子×満島ひかり、豪華共演 玉田真也監督が傑作戯曲を映画化「夏の砂の上」7月4日公開. Eiga.com. February 26, 2025.
- 27.フロントライン. Eiga.com.
- 28.でっちあげ 殺人教師と呼ばれた男. Eiga.com.
- 29.ナイトフラワー. Eiga.com.
- 30.ほどなく、お別れです. Eiga.com.
- 31.ラブ≠コメディ. Eiga.com.
- 32.存在のすべてを. Eiga.com.
- 33.Eiga.com.
- 34.義経. Haiyaku Jiten.
- 35.風林火山. Haiyaku Jiten.
- 36.おんな城主直虎. Haiyaku Jiten.
- 37.King & Prince 高橋海人が有村架純の弟役に 藤木直人、小池栄子、奈緒ら『姉ちゃんの恋人』出演へ. Real Sound. September 18, 2020.
- 38.「杉咲花の撮休」に上白石萌歌、橋本愛、光石研、若葉竜也、岡部たかし、芋生悠ら出演. Ntalie.
- 39.福島第一原発事故を描く『THE DAYS』、異なる視点が交錯するティザー映像 追加キャストに石田ゆり子ら. Crank-in!. April 3, 2023.
- 40.New Live-Action Minami's Lover Series Unveils More Cast, July 16 Debut. Anime News Network. 2024-06-12.
- 41.佐藤浩市、14年ぶりテレ朝連ドラ出演 新刑事ドラマは「よりバラエティーに富んでいる」. Encount Press. June 29, 2025.
- 42.ぼくたちん家の出演者・キャスト一覧. The Television.
- 43.柳楽優弥×松村北斗「九条の大罪」4月2日配信決定! 初映像&追加キャスト発表 鞍馬蔵人役は生田斗真. Eiga.com. January 26, 2026.
- 44.『LOST JUDGMENT:裁かれざる記憶』光石研 インタビュー映像. June 10, 2021.
- 45.第37回ヨコハマ映画祭 2015年日本映画個人賞. homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai.
- 46.毎日映画コンクール 候補作が決定 「ドライブ・マイ・カー」最多10ノミネート. Sponichi.
- 47.第18回アジア・フィルム・アワード ノミネートリスト. TIFF.
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