Koichi Sato (佐藤 浩市, Satō Kōichi, born December 10, 1960) is a Japanese actor. He is the son of veteran Japanese actor Rentarō Mikuni.
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Koichi Sato | |
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佐藤 浩市 | |
![]() Koichi Sato at 28th Tokyo International Film Festival | |
Born | (1960-12-10) December 10, 1960 (age 61) Tokyo, Japan |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1980–present |
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
Children | Kanichiro[1] |
Parent | Rentarō Mikuni (father) |
Sato has appeared in some of Junji Sakamoto's films such as Tokarev,[2] Face,[3] KT,[4] Children of the Dark,[5] and Human Trust.[6]
He also appeared in Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django,[7] Yoichi Sai's Kamui Gaiden,[8] and Takahisa Zeze's Heaven's Story.[9]
Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1981 | The Gate of Youth | Shinsuke Ibuki | Kinji Fukasaku and Koreyoshi Kurahara | ||
Manon | Yōichi Higashi | ||||
1982 | Dotonbori River | Kinji Fukasaku | |||
The Gate of Youth 2 | Shinsuke Ibuki | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Lead | ||
1983 | Antarctica | Koreyoshi Kurahara | |||
The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | ||||
Battle Anthem | Toshio Masuda | ||||
1984 | Fireflies in the North | Hideo Gosha | |||
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | ||||
Mitsugetsu | Hōjin Hashiura | Lead | |||
1985 | Penguin's Memory | Mike Davis (voice) | Shinji Kimura | Lead | |
Kids | Masaharu Takahashi | ||||
Love Hotel | Shinji Sōmai | ||||
1986 | A Promise | Yoshishige Yoshida | |||
Death Powder | Kiyoshi | Shigeru Izumiya | Lead | ||
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacoast | Nobuhiko Obayashi | ||||
1988 | The Silk Road | Zhao Xingde | Junya Sato | Lead | |
1989 | Shadow of China | Akira Kitayama | Mitsuo Yanagimachi | ||
Company-Sponsored Funeral | Toshio Masuda | ||||
1990 | Ruten no umi | Buichi Saitō | |||
1991 | Psychic Girl Reiko | Takao Okawara | |||
1994 | Crest of Betrayal | Tamiya Iemon | Kinji Fukasaku | Lead | |
Tokarev | Junji Sakamoto | ||||
1995 | Gonin | Mikihiko Bandai | Takashi Ishii | Lead | |
Pu | Mikio Yamazaki | Lead | |||
1996 | Oishinbo | Shirō Yamaoka | Azuma Morisaki | Lead | |
Gonin 2 | Takashi Ishii | ||||
1997 | Lie lie Lie | Shun Nakahara | Lead | ||
30 | Shinobu Sakagami | ||||
1998 | Spiral | George Iida | Lead | ||
Wait and See | Shinji Sōmai | Lead | |||
2000 | Face | Junji Sakamoto | |||
Whiteout | Setsurō Wakamatsu | ||||
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Junji Sakamoto | ||||
2002 | KT | Masuo Tomita | Junji Sakamoto | Lead | |
Utsutsu | Hisashi Tōma | Lead | |||
2003 | Rockers | Takanori Jinnai | |||
When the Last Sword Is Drawn | Saitō Hajime | Yōjirō Takita | |||
Samurai Resurrection | Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi | Hideyuki Hirayama | |||
Wild Berries | Miwa Nishikawa | ||||
2004 | Infection | Dr. Akiba | Masayuki Ochiai | Lead | [10] |
2005 | Aegis | Junji Sakamoto | |||
What the Snow Brings | Kichitaro Negishi | ||||
Sea Cat | Yoshimitsu Morita | ||||
2006 | Waiting in the Dark | Daisuke Tengan | [11] | ||
The Uchoten Hotel | Kōki Mitani | ||||
Starfish Hotel | John Williams | Lead | |||
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth | Tetsu Maeda | ||||
2007 | Sukiyaki Western Django | Taira no Kiyomori | Takashi Miike | ||
Smile | Takanori Jinnai | ||||
Love Never to End | Yasuo Tsuruhashi | ||||
A Gentle Breeze in the Village | Nobuhiro Yamashita | ||||
2008 | The Magic Hour | Taiki Murata | Kōki Mitani | Lead | |
Nobody to Watch Over Me | Ryoichi Kimizuka | Lead | |||
Children of the Dark | Junji Sakamoto | ||||
Free and Easy 19 | Yūzō Asahara | ||||
2009 | Kamui Gaiden | Yoichi Sai | |||
Brass Knuckle Boys | Kankurō Kudō | ||||
Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess | Hiroshi Nishitani | ||||
2010 | Heaven's Story | Takahisa Zeze | |||
The Last Ronin | Shigemichi Sugita | Lead | |||
2011 | A Ghost of a Chance | Taiki Murata | Kōki Mitani | ||
Unfair 2: The Answer | Shimako Satō | ||||
That's the Way!! | Hideaki Satō | ||||
Someday | Junji Sakamoto | ||||
2012 | Dearest | Yasuo Furuhata | |||
Reunion | Ryoichi Kimizuka | ||||
The Floating Castle | Isshin Inudo and Shinji Higuchi | ||||
2013 | The Kiyosu Conference | Ikeda Tsuneoki | Kōki Mitani | ||
Unforgiven | Lee Sang-il | ||||
Human Trust | Junji Sakamoto | Lead | |||
A Chair on the Plains | Izuru Narushima | Lead | |||
2014 | The Vancouver Asahi | Yuya Ishii | |||
Time Trip App | Saigō Takamori | Toshio Lee | |||
2015 | The Pearls of the Stone Man | Yūzō Asahara | Lead | ||
Terminal | Tetsuo Shinohara | Lead | [12] | ||
Hero | Masayuki Suzuki | ||||
Unfair: The End | Shimako Satō | ||||
Gonin Saga | Mikihiko Bandai | Takashi Ishii | Cameo | ||
Galaxy Turnpike | Taiki Murata | Kōki Mitani | |||
2016 | 64: Part I | Takahisa Zeze | Lead | ||
64: Part II | Takahisa Zeze | Lead | |||
Midnight Diner 2 | Ishida | Joji Matsuoka | |||
2017 | Flower and Sword | Sen no Rikyū | Tetsuo Shinohara | ||
2018 | Sakura Guardian in the North | Yōjirō Takita | |||
My Friend A | Shūji Yamauchi | Takahisa Zeze | |||
A Banana? At This Time of Night? | Tetsu Maeda | ||||
2019 | The Fable | The Boss | Kan Eguchi | [13] | |
Hit me Anyone One More Time | Kōki Mitani | ||||
The Promised Land | Takahisa Zeze | ||||
Red Snow | Sayaka Kai | ||||
The Landlady | Sachi Hamano | ||||
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki | PM Keiichirō Tarumi | Setsurō Wakamatsu | |||
Almost a Miracle | Yuya Ishii | ||||
2020 | Fukushima 50 | Toshio Isaki | Setsurō Wakamatsu | Lead | |
The Gun 2020 | Masaharu Take | ||||
I Never Shot Anyone | Michio Kodama | Junji Sakamoto | |||
Silent Tokyo | Jin Asahina | Takafumi Hatano | Lead | ||
Bolt | Yoshida (voice) | Kaizo Hayashi | |||
2021 | Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction | Ryūji Tōmatsu | Daihachi Yoshida | ||
The Sun Stands Still | Takeshi Kazama | Eiichirō Hasumi | |||
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill | The Boss | Kan Eguchi | [13] | ||
2022 | Soul at Twenty | Ken'ichi Takahashi | Jun Akiyama | [14] | |
Kingdom 2: Far and Away | Lü Buwei | Shinsuke Sato | [15] | ||
2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D. 2 | Inoue Hanjūrō | Shunsaku Kawake | [16] | |
Família | Komaba | Izuru Narushima | [17] | ||
Haru ni Chiru | Hirooka | Takahisa Zeze | Lead | [18] | |
Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1986 | Musashibō Benkei | Kiso Yoshinaka | NHK | ||
1990 | Tobu ga Gotoku | Sakamoto Ryōma | NHK | Taiga drama | |
1991 | Takeda Shingen | Uesugi Kenshin | TBS | TV movie | [19] |
1992 | Shin'ai naru Mono e | Fuji TV | |||
1993 | Hotel Doctor | TV Asahi | Lead | ||
Subarashiki kana Jinsei | Fuji TV | ||||
1993–94 | Homura Tatsu | Minamoto no Yoshiie | NHK | Taiga drama | |
1994 | Yokohama Shinjū | NTV | Lead | ||
1995 | Koi mo Nidome nara | NTV | |||
Koibito yo | Fuji TV | ||||
The Abe Clan | Abe Yagobei | Fuji TV | TV movie | ||
1996 | Tsubasa o Kudasai! | Fuji TV | |||
1998 | Tabloid | Fuji TV | |||
1999 | Africa no Yoru | Fuji TV | |||
Dokushin Seikatsu | TBS | ||||
2000 | Tenki-yoho no Koibito | Katsuhiko Yano | Fuji TV | Lead | |
2001 | Aru Hi, Arashi no You ni | NHK | |||
Chūshingura 1/47 | Ōishi Kuranosuke | Fuji TV | TV movie | ||
2002 | Tengoku e no Kaidan | NTV | Lead | ||
2003 | Welcome to the High Plains | Seiji Omokawa | TBS | Lead | |
2004 | Shinsengumi! | Serizawa Kamo | NHK | Taiga drama | |
Pride | Fuji TV | ||||
2005 | Climber's High | Kazumasa Yūki | NHK | Lead, miniseries | |
2006 | The Animal Trail | TV Asahi | |||
Suppli | Fuji TV | ||||
2007 | High and Low | Kingo Gondō | TV Asahi | Lead, TV movie | |
2009 | The Summer of the Bureaucrats | Shingo Kazakoshi | TBS | Lead | |
2010 | Wagaya no Rekishi | Fuji TV | Miniseries | ||
2012 | The Locked Room Murders | Fuji TV | |||
2014 | Leaders | Saichiro Aichi | TBS | Lead, miniseries | |
2015 | Murder on the Orient Express | Fuji TV | Miniseries | ||
2016 | Botchan | Fuji TV | Special appearance, TV movie | ||
Sogeki | TV Asahi | Lead, TV movie | |||
2017 | Leaders 2 | Saichiro Aichi | TBS | Lead, TV movie | |
Ishitsubute | Wowow | Lead | |||
2018 | Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot | Keisuke Miyake | Netflix | ||
As a Father of Murderer Son | Keiichi Yoshinaga | TV Tokyo | Lead, TV movie | ||
Cold Case Season 2 | Naoya Terayama | Wowow | Ep. 4 | ||
2020 | The Sun Stands Still: The Eclipse | Takeshi Kazama | Wowow | Miniseries | |
2021 | Okehazama | Saitō Dōsan | Fuji TV | TV movie | [20] |
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses | Yukio Nonishi | NHK | Miniseries | [21] | |
2022 | The 13 Lords of the Shogun | Kazusa Hirotsune | NHK | Taiga drama | [22] |
General | |
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National libraries | |
Other |
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