仲代達矢
At a 2017 event, the actor Tatsuya Nakadai stated that during the filming of Kurosawa's 1963 "High and Low", he felt added pressure having to deliver a 10-minute monologue because Mitsui was in the scene. The two also appeared onscreen together in Kobayashi’s "The Human Condition" (1959) and "The Inheritance" (1962), as well as Okamoto’s Battle of Okinawa (1971); in 1975, Nakadai appeared in a stage production of Gorky’s "The Lower Depths" as the gambler character who was closely associated in Japan with Mitsui’s portrayal in Kurosawa’s 1957 film version.