Masayuki Mori
January 13, 1911 – October 7, 1973 was a Japanese actor and son of novelist Takeo Arishima. Mori appeared in many of Akira Kurosawa's films such as Rashomon, The Idiot and The Bad Sleep Well. He also starred in pictures by Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu), Mikio Naruse (Floating Clouds) and other prominent directors.
Masayuki Mori

時事世界社 (Jiji Sekai-sha). · 『映画と演劇』1955年12月号、時事世界社、1955年、p. 4 Magazine for "Eiga to Engeki (Movies and theater)" December 1955 issue, Jiji Sekai-sha. 1955, p. 4 · Public domain
- Name
- Masayuki Mori
- Born
- 13 January 1911
- Birthplace
- Sapporo, Empire of Japan
- Died
- 7 October 1973
- Place of death
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Actor
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Honours
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor
- Languages
- Japanese
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January 13, 1911 – October 7, 1973 was a Japanese actor and son of novelist Takeo Arishima. Mori appeared in many of Akira Kurosawa's films such as Rashomon, The Idiot and The Bad Sleep Well. He also starred in pictures by Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu), Mikio Naruse (Floating Clouds) and other prominent directors.
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• Name — Masayuki Mori • Born — 13 January 1911 • Birthplace — Sapporo, Empire of Japan • Died — 7 October 1973 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1931–1973
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• Year — Title — Role — Network — Notes • 1962 — Takasebune — Shōbei — NTV • 1968 — Ryōma ga Yuku — Yoshida Tōyō — NHK — Taiga drama • 1970 — Mominoki wa Nokotta — Date Aki — NHK — Taiga drama • 1972 — Shin Heike Monogatari — Fujiwara no Tadazane — NHK — Taiga drama

Movie poster for 1951 Japanese movie The Idiot (白痴, Hakuchi) showing Toshirō Mifune (left), Masayuki Mori (center) and Setsuko Hara (right).
Shochiku Company, Limited (松竹株式会社, Shōchiku Kabushiki Gaisha) © 1951 · scanned movie poster released by Shochiku Company, Limited
Masayuki Mori from Toho film " Raigekitai Shitsudo (Mobilization of torpedo bomber Corps) "(1944).
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• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1945 — The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail — Kamei — Akira Kurosawa • Sanshiro Sugata Part II — Yoshima Dan — Akira Kurosawa • 1947 — A Ball at the Anjo House — Masahiko Anjō — Kōzaburō Yoshimura • 1950 — Rashomon — Unnamed samurai — Akira Kurosawa • 1951 — The Idiot — Kinji Kameda — Akira Kurosawa • The Lady of Musashino — Tadao Akiyama — Kenji Mizoguchi • 1953 — Ugetsu — Genjūrō — Kenji Mizoguchi • Older Brother, Younger Sister — Inokichi — Mikio Naruse • 1953 — Love Letter — Reikichi Mayumi — Kinuyo Tanaka • 1954 — A Certain Woman — Shirō Toyoda • 1955 — Floating Clouds — Kengo Tomioka — Mikio Naruse • Princess Yang Kwei-Fei — Emperor Xuan Zong — Kenji Mizoguchi • The Heart — Nobuchi — Kon Ichikawa • The Eternal Breasts — Takashi Hori — Kinuyo Tanaka • 1956 — The Balloon — Haruki Murakami — Yuzo Kawashima • 1957 — Untamed — Hamaya — Mikio Naruse • Elegy of the North — Setsuo Katsuragi — Heinosuke Gosho • 1958 — Night Drum — Miyaji — Tadashi Imai • 1960 — The Bad Sleep Well — Iwabuchi — Akira Kurosawa • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs — Nobuhiko Fujisaki — Mikio Naruse • Her Brother — Father — Kon Ichikawa • Daughters, Wives and a Mother — Yūichirō Sakanishi — Mikio Naruse • 1961 — As a Wife, As a Woman — Keijirō Kōno — Mikio Naruse • 1963 — Bushido, Samurai Saga — Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori — Tadashi Imai • Alone on the Pacific — Father — Kon Ichikawa • 1968 — Admiral Yamamoto — Fumimaro Konoe — Seiji Maruyama • 1970 — Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival — The Dark Lord — Kenji Misumi
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- 1.Filmographie. JMDb.
- 2.Japanese Filmography : A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994. Mcfarland. 1996. 978-0-7864-0032-4.
- 3.prix Kinema Junpō - (1955年). kinenote.com.
- 4.毎日映画コンクール 第15回(1960年). mainichi.jp.
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