Shinsuke Mikimoto

Nihongo|Shinsuke Mikimoto|御木本伸介|Mikimoto Shinsuke|extra=May 22, 1931–August 5, 2002 was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades.

Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo (Saint Paul's) University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics. Mikimoto died of lung cancer in 2002.

Primarily a supporting actor, Mikimoto frequently appeared as a bad guy in "jidaigeki" on television and in film. Additionally, he took roles such as Kiyokawa Hachirō in "Moeyo Ken", a prime-time "bakumatsu" story on NET in 1970. He played Ōtaka Tadao (Gengo), one of the Forty-seven Ronin, in the 1971 "Daichūshingura" starring Toshiro Mifune. Another historical role was Hirate Masahide in the NHK Taiga drama "Takeda Shingen."

Mikimoto mostly took parts as fictional characters. His career includes seven appearances on "Mito Kōmon", spanning the years from 1978 to 1994. Many other long-running "jidaigeki" cast Mikimoto in guest-star roles, among them "Abarenbō Shōgun", "Zenigata Heiji", "Onihei Hankachō", "Ōoka Echizen", and "Chōshichirō Edo Nikki".

In film, Mikimoto appeared in "Gion Matsuri" (1968) with Kinnosuke Nakamura and Toshiro Mifune; "The Fall of Ako Castle" (1978), directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Nakamura, Mifune, and Sonny Chiba; and films set in modern times such as "Zero Fighter Burns" and the 1986 "The Return of Godzilla" with Raymond Burr and Japan Academy Prize-winning actress Yasuko Sawaguchi.

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This article incorporates material from 御木本伸介 ("Mikimoto Shinsuke") in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on March 15, 2008.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586534/ Shinsuke Mikimoto] at IMDB
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0103380.htm Mikimoto Shinsuke] at JMDB