# Ken Mitsuishi

Ken Mitsuishi (光石 研, Mitsuishi Ken, born 26 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in films such as Chaos and Tokyo Playboy Club.

## Filmography
### 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)
* 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)
* 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 the Summer Sand (2025)
* Frontline (2025), Todoroki

### Television

* 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

### Video games

* Lost Judgment (2021), Akihiro Ehara

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work(s) | Result |
| 2016 | 37th Yokohama Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | Three Stories of Love | Won |
| 2022 | 76th Mainichi Film Awards | Best Supporting Actor | A Balance | Nominated |
| 2025 | 18th Asian Film Awards | Best Supporting Actor | All the Long Nights | Nominated |