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Masayuki Mori

Highest Rated: 100% Ugetsu (1953)

Lowest Rated: 60% The Idiot (1951)

Birthday: Jan 13, 1911

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Birthplace: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Masayuki Mori, born Yukimitsu Arishima, was a Japanese actor best remembered for his work with legendary director Akira Kurosawa, notably on the latter's masterpiece "Rashomon" and later in several of his other great films. The son of novelist Takeo Arishima, Mori studied at Kyoto University and quickly found work on the stage. He began his career-spanning collaboration with Kurosawa in 1945, when he co-starred in the adventure drama "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail." He then began another career-long collaboration, this time with Kozaburo Yoshimura in his 1947 family drama, "Anjo-ke no butokai." Mori carried on working with the two famed directors as Japan entered a dark period after World War II. He worked again with Kurosawa on "Rashomon," where he portrayed the husband/victim Kanazawa-no-Takehiro, and next as Kinji Kameda in the adaptation of "The Idiot." Mori's intense expressiveness and his background on the stage served him well, and he soon became one of Japan's most respected actors. His roles throughout the '50s, in the 16th-century Japan-set "Ugetsu" and in Mikio Naruse's World War II film "Ukigumo," further established him as Japan's top talent. Of the dozens of features he starred in throughout the '60s, the most notable was Kurosawa's "The Bad Sleep Well," where Mori appeared as a corrupt company vice president.

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Highest rated movies

100% 93% Ugetsu
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100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well
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100% 93% When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
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98% 93% Rashomon
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86% 58% The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
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60% 73% The Idiot
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Human Torpedoes
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Northern Elegy
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84% Floating Clouds
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The Balloon
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Filmography

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No Score Yet 71% Admiral Yamamoto Prime Minister Konoe (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 67% Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alone on the Pacific Youth's Father (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Old and New Unknown (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 71% Her Brother Father (Character) - 1961
100% 93% When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Nobuhiko Fujisaki (Character) - 1960
100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well Company President Iwabuchi (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Night Drum Miyaji (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Northern Elegy Setsuo Katsuragi (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Human Torpedoes Hashizume (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Balloon Haruki Murakami (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 84% Floating Clouds Kengo Tomioka (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 76% Princess Yang Kwei-fei Emperor Xuan Zong (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Eternal Breasts Mori (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 89% Kokoro Nobuchi (Character) - 1955
100% 93% Ugetsu Genjurô (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Letter Unknown (Character) - 1953
60% 73% The Idiot Kinji Kameda (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 95% The Lady of Musashino Tadao Akiyama (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Good Fairy Nakanuma (Character) - 1951
98% 93% Rashomon Takehiro (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet In The Woods Unknown (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Broken Drum Unknown (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 88% The Ball at the Anjo House Masahiko 1st son (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 39% Judo Saga II Yoshima Dan (Character) - 1945
86% 58% The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail Kamei (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sanshiro Sugata II Unknown (Character) - 1945