Kōichi Satō (actor)

Koichi Sato
Koichi Sato
	佐藤浩市
	Koichi Sato at 28th Tokyo International Film Festival
Born	December 10, 1960; Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980–present
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Children	Kan'ichirō
Parent(s)	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,[1] Face,[2] KT,[3] Children of the Dark,[4] and Human Trust.[5]

He also appeared in Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django,[6] Yoichi Sai's Kamui Gaiden,[7] and Takahisa Zeze's Heaven's Story.[8]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
1981	The Gate of Youth	Shinsuke Ibuki	Kinji Fukasaku and Koreyoshi Kurahara
1981	Manon		Yōichi Higashi
1982	Dotonbori River		Kinji Fukasaku
1982	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
1989	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
1994	Tokarev		Junji Sakamoto
1995	Gonin	Mikihiko Bandai	Takashi Ishii	Lead
1995	Pu		Mikio Yamazaki	Lead
1996	Oishinbo	Shirō Yamaoka	Azuma Morisaki	Lead
1996	Gonin 2		Takashi Ishii
1997	Lie lie Lie		Shun Nakahara	Lead
1997	30		Shinobu Sakagami
1998	Spiral		George Iida	Lead
1998	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
2002	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	[9]
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
2010	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
2014	Time Trip App	Saigō Takamori	Toshio Lee
2015	The Pearls of the Stone Man		Yūzō Asahara	Lead
	Terminal		Tetsuo Shinohara	Lead	[10]
	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		Yuya Ishii
2020	Fukushima 50		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 2	The Boss	Kan Eguchi		[11]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref(s)
1986	Musashibō Benkei	Kiso Yoshinaka	NHK
1990	Tobu ga Gotoku	Sakamoto Ryōma	NHK	Taiga drama
1991	Takeda Shingen	Uesugi Kenshin	TBS	TV movie	[12]
1992	Shin'ai naru Mono e		Fuji TV
1993	Hotel Doctor		TV Asahi	Lead
1993	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
1999	Dokushin Seikatsu		TBS
2000	Tenki-yoho no Koibito	Katsuhiko Yano	Fuji TV	Lead
2001	Aru Hi, Arashi no You ni		NHK
2001	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
2004	Pride		Fuji TV
2005	Climber's High	Kazumasa Yūki	NHK	Lead, miniseries
2006	The Animal Trail		TV Asahi
2006	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
2016	Sogeki		TV Asahi	Lead, TV movie
2017	Leaders 2	Saichiro Aichi	TBS	Lead, TV movie
2017	Ishitsubute		Wowow	Lead
2018	Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot	Keisuke Miyake	Netflix
	A de wa nai Kimi to		TV Tokyo	Lead, TV movie
	Cold Case Season 2		Wowow	Ep. 4
2020	The Sun Stands Still: The Eclipse	Takeshi Kazama	Wowow	Miniseries
2021	Okehazama	Saitō Dōsan	Fuji TV	TV movie	[13]

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[14]
1995: 16th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor for Tokarev[15]
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[16]
2016: 29th Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Actor for 64: Part I and 64: Part II[17]
2017: 40th Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for 64: Part I[18]
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[19]
2012: 35th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Last Ronin[20]
2013: 36th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for Anata e[21]
2013: 36th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for The Floating Castle[21]
2016: 39th Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for Kishūteneki Terminal[22]

References

Rooney, David (December 4, 1994). "Review: Tokarev". Variety.
Holden, Stephen (March 27, 2001). "FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Murder as the True Key To Self-Actualization". The New York Times. The New York Times Company.
Schilling, Mark (April 14, 2002). "KT". Screen Daily. Media Business Insight Limited.
Kuipers, Richard (November 7, 2008). "Review: "Children of the Dark"". Variety.
Schilling, Mark (October 17, 2013). "Jinrui Shikin (Human Trust)". The Japan Times.
Adams, Sam (August 28, 2008). "Sukiyaki Western Django". The A.V. Club.
Schilling, Mark (September 18, 2009). "Kamui Gaiden". The Japan Times.
Debruge, Peter (February 12, 2011). "Review: Heaven's Story". Variety.
Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 434. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.
佐藤浩市、本田翼と30歳差の恋愛に挑戦！「起終点駅ターミナル」映画化決定 (in Japanese). IID, Inc. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
"岡田准一「ザ・ファブル」続編、21年公開決定！堤真一、平手友梨奈、安藤政信が参戦". eiga.com. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
"TBS新春大型時代劇スペシャル「武田信玄」". TBS. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
"佐藤浩市が斎藤道三、松田龍平が柴田勝家に、ドラマ「桶狭間」で海老蔵と初共演". Natalie. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
歴代受賞者と受賞作品 [Nikkan Sports Film Awards History] (in Japanese). Nikkan Sports News. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
第16回ヨコハマ映画祭 1994年日本映画個人賞 [16th Yokohama Film Festival 1994 Individual Awards] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
樹木希林＆本木雅弘"親子"で同時受賞第40回報知映画賞 (in Japanese). oricon ME inc. 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
佐藤浩市が主演男優賞「あまのじゃくです」映画大賞. Nikkan Sports News (in Japanese). 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
“第40回日本アカデミー賞最優秀賞決定! (in Japanese). Japan Academy Film Prize Association. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
日本アカデミー賞２００８年(第３２回) [Japan Academy Prize 2008 (32nd)] (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
第35回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 [The 35th Japan Academy Prize Excellence Awards] (in Japanese). Japan Academy Film Prize Association. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
第36回日本アカデミー賞、優秀賞発表！最多受賞3作品の大混戦！ (in Japanese). Cinematoday. 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
日本アカデミー賞優秀賞発表『海街diary』が最多12部門受賞 [Japan Academy Prize Excellence Awards Announcement "Umimachi Diary" wins 12 categories] (in Japanese). oricon ME inc. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

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[1] Rooney, David (December 4, 1994). "Review: Tokarev". Variety.

[2] Holden, Stephen (March 27, 2001). "FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Murder as the True Key To Self-Actualization". The New York Times. The New York Times Company.

[3] Schilling, Mark (April 14, 2002). "KT". Screen Daily. Media Business Insight Limited.

[4] Kuipers, Richard (November 7, 2008). "Review: "Children of the Dark"". Variety.

[5] Schilling, Mark (October 17, 2013). "Jinrui Shikin (Human Trust)". The Japan Times.

[6] Adams, Sam (August 28, 2008). "Sukiyaki Western Django". The A.V. Club.

[7] Schilling, Mark (September 18, 2009). "Kamui Gaiden". The Japan Times.

[8] Debruge, Peter (February 12, 2011). "Review: Heaven's Story". Variety.

[IV2008-9] Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 434. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.

[10] 佐藤浩市、本田翼と30歳差の恋愛に挑戦！「起終点駅ターミナル」映画化決定 (in Japanese). IID, Inc. Retrieved 2015-10-27.

[11] "岡田准一「ザ・ファブル」続編、21年公開決定！堤真一、平手友梨奈、安藤政信が参戦". eiga.com. Retrieved August 19, 2020.

[12] "TBS新春大型時代劇スペシャル「武田信玄」". TBS. Retrieved May 9, 2020.

[13] "佐藤浩市が斎藤道三、松田龍平が柴田勝家に、ドラマ「桶狭間」で海老蔵と初共演". Natalie. Retrieved May 9, 2020.

[14] 歴代受賞者と受賞作品 [Nikkan Sports Film Awards History] (in Japanese). Nikkan Sports News. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

[15] 第16回ヨコハマ映画祭 1994年日本映画個人賞 [16th Yokohama Film Festival 1994 Individual Awards] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-12-13.

[16] 樹木希林＆本木雅弘"親子"で同時受賞第40回報知映画賞 (in Japanese). oricon ME inc. 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2015-11-27.

[17] 佐藤浩市が主演男優賞「あまのじゃくです」映画大賞. Nikkan Sports News (in Japanese). 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

[18] “第40回日本アカデミー賞最優秀賞決定! (in Japanese). Japan Academy Film Prize Association. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

[19] 日本アカデミー賞２００８年(第３２回) [Japan Academy Prize 2008 (32nd)] (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

[20] 第35回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 [The 35th Japan Academy Prize Excellence Awards] (in Japanese). Japan Academy Film Prize Association. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

[cinematoday-21] 第36回日本アカデミー賞、優秀賞発表！最多受賞3作品の大混戦！ (in Japanese). Cinematoday. 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

[22] 日本アカデミー賞優秀賞発表『海街diary』が最多12部門受賞 [Japan Academy Prize Excellence Awards Announcement "Umimachi Diary" wins 12 categories] (in Japanese). oricon ME inc. Retrieved 2017-08-02.