Rentarō Mikuni

Rentarō Mikuni
Mikuni, c. 1950s
Born
Masao Sato

(1923-01-20)20 January 1923
Ōta, Gunma, Empire of Japan
Died14 April 2013(2013-04-14) (aged 90)
Inagi, Tokyo, Japan
OccupationsActor, film director
Years active1950–2013
ChildrenKōichi Satō
RelativesKanichiro (grandson)

Rentarō Mikuni (Japanese: 三國連太郎, Hepburn: Mikuni Rentarō; 20 January 1923 – 14 April 2013) was a Japanese actor and film director. He starred in several films of Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai, Shōhei Imamura, Tomu Uchida and many others. Mikuni received numerous awards for his performances and was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his film Shinran: Path to Purity, which he wrote and directed.

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