Masayuki Mori (actor)

This article is about the Japanese actor. For the producer of Takeshi Kitano's films, see Masayuki Mori (film producer).

Masayuki Mori
Born	(1911-01-13)January 13, 1911 Sapporo, Japan
Died	October 7, 1973(1973-10-07) (aged 62) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1931–1973

Masayuki Mori (森 雅之, Mori Masayuki, 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.

Selected filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1945	The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail		Akira Kurosawa
	Sanshiro Sugata Part II		Akira Kurosawa
1947	A Ball at the Anjo House		Kōzaburō Yoshimura
1950	Rashomon	Unnamed samurai	Akira Kurosawa
1951	The Idiot		Akira Kurosawa
	The Lady of Musashino		Kenji Mizoguchi
1953	Ugetsu	Genjūrō	Kenji Mizoguchi
	Older Brother, Younger Sister	Inokichi	Mikio Naruse
1953	Love Letter		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		Kinuyo Tanaka
1956	The Balloon	Haruki Murakami	Yuzo Kawashima
1957	Untamed		Mikio Naruse
	Elegy of the North		Heinosuke Gosho
1958	Night Drum		Tadashi Imai
1960	The Bad Sleep Well	Iwabuchi	Akira Kurosawa
	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs		Mikio Naruse
	Her Brother		Kon Ichikawa
	Daughters, Wives and a Mother		Mikio Naruse
1961	As a Wife, As a Woman	Keijirō Kōno	Mikio Naruse
1963	Bushido, Samurai Saga		Tadashi Imai
	Alone on the Pacific		Kon Ichikawa
1968	Admiral Yamamoto	Fumimaro Konoe	Seiji Maruyama
1970	Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival	The Dark Lord	Kenji Misumi

Television

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

External links

• Masayuki Mori at IMDb
• Masayuki Mori at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)