Tatsuya Mihashi

Tatsuya Mihashi is the kind of actor who makes you feel the weight of history just by existing on screen. Born in 1923 in central Tokyo, he lived through the war, came out the other side, and then got to watch Japanese cinema explode into one of the most electrifying film cultures in the world — and he was right there in the thick of it. There's a specific gravity that only comes from that kind of life, and you can feel it in actors of his generation: they don't need to perform presence, they just have it. The quiet ones who could hold a frame without doing much of anything are always the hardest to replace, and when Mihashi passed in May 2004, that particular vintage of old-Tokyo stoicism went with him. We don't really make actors like that anymore, and honestly I'm not sure we can.

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Tatsuya Mihashi was a Japanese actor born on November 2, 1923, in Chuo, Tokyo. He attended Chuo Gakuin University and built a career spanning the golden age of Japanese cinema and television. He passed away on May 15, 2004.

Name (English)

Tatsuya Mihashi

Name (Japanese)

三橋達也

Reading

みはし たつや

Born

November 2, 1923 – May 15, 2004

Origin

Tokyo (Chuo), Japan

Occupation

Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

University

Chuo Gakuin University

Works summary

Appearances

155 (1950–2004)

By year (titles with a known year)

1950: 1, 1951: 2, 1952: 5, 1953: 10, 1954: 2, 1955: 7, 1956: 10, 1957: 5, 1958: 3, 1959: 7, 1960: 6, 1961: 9, 1962: 5, 1963: 3, 1964: 5, 1965: 6, 1966: 8, 1967: 4, 1968: 2, 1969: 2, 1970: 4, 1971: 3, 1972: 3, 1973: 1, 1974: 1, 1978: 1, 1979: 2, 1980: 4, 1981: 5, 1986: 2, 1990: 2, 1991: 1, 1992: 1, 1993: 1, 1997: 1, 1999: 1, 2001: 2, 2002: 2, 2004: 1, year unknown: 15

Debut work

執行猶予

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%A9%8B%E9%81%94%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11356032

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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