Kōichi Satō (actor)
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Koichi Sato | |
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佐藤 浩市 | |
Born | |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1980–present |
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
Children | Kanichiro |
Parent | Rentarō Mikuni (father) |
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.
Career
Sato has appeared in some of Junji Sakamoto's films such as Tokarev, Face, KT, Children of the Dark, and Human Trust.
He also appeared in Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, Yoichi Sai's Kamui Gaiden, and Takahisa Zeze's Heaven's Story.
Filmography
Film
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 | |
2005 | Aegis | Junji Sakamoto | |||
What the Snow Brings | Kichitaro Negishi | ||||
Sea Cat | Yoshimitsu Morita | ||||
2006 | Waiting in the Dark | Daisuke Tengan | |||
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 | |||
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 | ||
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 | Hino | 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 | |||
2022 | Soul at Twenty | Ken'ichi Takahashi | Jun Akiyama | ||
Kingdom 2: Far and Away | Lü Buwei | Shinsuke Sato | |||
2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D. 2 | Inoue Hanjūrō | Shunsaku Kawake | ||
Familia | Komaba | Izuru Narushima | |||
One Last Bloom | Jin'ichi Hirooka | Takahisa Zeze | Lead | ||
Nemesis: The Movie | Mado | Yu Irie | |||
Kingdom: The Flame of Destiny | Lü Buwei | Shinsuke Sato | |||
We're Broke, My Lord! | Ikkosai | Tetsu Maeda | |||
Okiku and the World | Genbei | Junji Sakamoto | |||
Masked Hearts | Yuya Ishii | ||||
2024 | The Box Man | Gakuryū Ishii |
Television
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 | |
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 | Episode 4 | ||
2020 | The Sun Stands Still: The Eclipse | Takeshi Kazama | Wowow | Miniseries | |
2021 | Okehazama | Saitō Dōsan | Fuji TV | TV movie | |
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses | Yukio Nonishi | NHK | Miniseries | ||
2022 | The 13 Lords of the Shogun | Kazusa Hirotsune | NHK | Taiga drama | |
2023 | What Will You Do, Ieyasu? | Sanada Masayuki | NHK | Taiga drama |
Awards and nominations
Awards won
- 1982: 24th Blue Ribbon Awards: Best New Actor for The Gate of Youth
- 1982: 5th Japan Academy Prize: Newcomer of the Year for The Gate of Youth
- 1984: 8th Elan d'or Awards: Newcomer of the Year
- 1995: 18th Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for Crest of Betrayal
- 1995: 7th Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Actor for Crest of Betrayal
- 1995: 16th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor for Tokarev
- 1996: 10th Takasaki Film Festival: Best Actor for Gonin
- 2001: 24th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for Whiteout
- 2001: 15th Takasaki Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor for Face
- 2003: 12th Japanese Movie Critics Awards: Best Actor for KT
- 2003: 45th Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Actor for KT
- 2004: 27th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for When the Last Sword Is Drawn
- 2006: 32nd Hoso Bunka Foundation Award: Performance Award for Climber's High
- 2007: 61st Mainichi Film Awards: Best Actor for What the Snow Brings
- 2007: 18th Tokyo International Film Festival: Best Actor Award for What the Snow Brings
- 2007: 61st Japan Broadcast Film and Arts Awards: Excellence Award What the Snow Brings
- 2008: 1st International Drama Festival in Tokyo: Best Actor for Kaze no Hate, Tengoku to Jigoku, and Honto to Uso to Tequila
- 2009: 63rd Japan Broadcast Film and Arts Awards: Best Actor Award for Honto to Uso to Tequila
- 2012: 73rd Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Kagi no Kakatta Heya
- 2012: 16th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Spring 2012): Best Supporting Actor for Kagi no Kakatta Heya
- 2015: 40th Hochi Film Award: Best Actor for Kishūteneki Terminal and The Pearls of the Stone Man
- 2016: 29th Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Actor for 64: Part I and 64: Part II
- 2017: 40th Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for 64: Part I
- 2018: 5th Kyoto International Art and Film Festival: Toshiro Mifune Award
Awards nominated
- 1984: 7th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Catch
- 2007: 30th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Uchoten Hotel
- 2007: 61st Japan Broadcast Film and Arts Awards: Best Actor for Honto to Uso to Tequila
- 2009: 32nd Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Magic Hour
- 2012: 35th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Last Ronin
- 2013: 36th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for Anata e
- 2013: 36th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Floating Castle
- 2016: 39th Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for Kishūteneki Terminal