Mickey Curtis

For other people named Michael Curtis, see Michael Curtis (disambiguation).

Mickey Curtis
Native name	ミッキー・カーチス
Born	Michael Brian Curtis (1938-07-23) 23 July 1938 Tokyo, Japan
Other names	Igarashi Shinjirô Mikkī Kāchisu
Ethnicity	Japanese
Occupation	Actor, singer
Years active	1958–present
Spouse(s)	Mari Yoshimura

Mickey Curtis (ミッキー・カーチス, Mikkī Kāchisu, born 23 July 1938) is a Japanese actor, singer, and TV celebrity. His birth name was Michael Brian Curtis born to English-Japanese parents.

A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where he began as a rockabilly singer. In 1967 he became internationally known for his avant-garde rock band "Mickey Curtis & The Samurai". After five years Mickey disbanded the group and returned to Japan in 1972, where he began producing other musicians.

As an actor his first role was as a rock singer in the 1958 film All About Marriage by Kihachi Okamoto, and has since gone on to star in more than 70 feature films. At over 70 years of age he is one of the oldest major celebrities in Japan and a regular TV personality. Apart from his entertainment career he has also been a race car driver and owns a motorcycle shop in Meguro, Tokyo. He speaks Japanese, English, French, German, Italian and Thai.

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Role
1959	Fires on the Plain (野火 Nobi)	Nagamatsu
1963	Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (真田風雲録 Sanada fūunroku)
1986	Jikuu Senshi Spielban	Emperor Guillotine
1989	Gunhed	Bansho
1992	8 Man (8マン すべての寂しい夜のために Eitoman - Subete no sabishii yoru no tame ni)	Sniper
1995	Kamikaze Taxi	Animaru
1996	Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル Suwarōteiru)	Doctor
	Fudoh: The New Generation (極道戦国志 不動 Gokudō sengokushi: Fudō)	Yasha Gang Assassin
1998	Blues Harp
	Hana no O-Edo no Tsuribaka Nisshi (花のお江戸の釣りバカ日誌)
2001	Cowboy Bebop: The Movie	Rasheed
	Lily Festival (百合祭 Yurisai)
	Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水 Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu)	Nobuyuki Ohnishi
2002	Agitator (荒ぶる魂たち Araburu tamashii-tachi)	Yokomizo
	The Laughing Frog (笑う蛙 Warau Kaeru)	Kiichiro Aisawa
	Aiki	Miyaji
2003	Kikoku (鬼哭)
2004	Izo
2005	Custom Made 10.30	A god
2008	SS	Nishiyama President
	Kurosagi (映画 クロサギ Eiga Kurosagi)
	Cafe Isobe (純喫茶磯辺 Junkissa Isobe)	Hongo
2011	Deadball (デッドボール Deddobōru)
2012	Robo-G (ロボジー Robo Ji)	Shigemitsu Suzuki

External links

• Mickey Curtis at the Internet Movie Database