{{Short description|Japanese actor, singer and media personality (born 1938)}} {{Other people|Michael Curtis}} {{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|ミッキー・カーチス|date=November 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Mickey Curtis | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | native_name = ミッキー・カーチス | native_name_lang = ja | birth_name = Michael Brian Curtis | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1938|7|23}} | birth_place = Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|death date†|birth date†}} --> | death_place = | other_names = Igarashi Shinjirô<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eiga.com/news/20110701/1/|title = 矢口史靖監督最新作「ロボジー」主演は73歳・五十嵐信次郎 : 映画ニュース}}</ref><br/>Mikkī Kāchisu | occupation = Actor, singer | years_active = 1958–present | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = Mari Yoshimura (1962–1964) | module = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes | background = solo_singer<!-- mandatory field --> | instrument = Vocals | genre = {{flatlist| *Rock and roll *Progressive rock *Rockabilly}} | label = Victor, Philips, Black | associated_acts = {{flatlist| * Mickey Curtis and The Samurai * Mickey Curtis and His City Crows}} }} }}
{{nihongo|'''Mickey Curtis'''|ミッキー・カーチス|''Mikkī Kāchisu''|born {{nihongo|'''Michael Brian Curtis'''|マイケル・ブライアン・カーティス|Maikeru Buraian Kātisu}}, later {{nihongo|'''加千須 ブライアン'''|Kāchisu Buraian}}, real name after naturalization in Japan, 23 July 1938}} is a Japanese actor, singer and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents.<ref name="watanabepro">{{Cite web|url=http://www.watanabepro.co.jp/mypage/artist/mickeycurtis.html|title=ミッキー・カーチス｜ワタナベエンターテインメント}}</ref>
A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Curtis 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.<ref>{{cite book | title = 昭和浪漫ロカビリー―聞き書き:ジャズ喫茶からウエスタン・カーニバルへ | publisher = Heibonsha Publishing | year = 2001 | isbn = 4-19-861365-6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = The Japanese rock stars interviews 集~時代を築いた20人の言葉 | publisher = T.O Entertainment | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-4-904376-18-8 }}</ref> In 1967, he became internationally known for his psychedelic rock band "Mickey Curtis & The Samurai". After five years, Curtis 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 he has since gone on to star in more than 70 feature films. Apart from his entertainment career he has also been a race car driver and owns a motorcycle shop in Meguro, Tokyo.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} He speaks Japanese, English, French, German, Italian and Thai.<ref name="watanabepro" />
==Selected filmography==
===Film=== {|class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes ! Ref. |- | 1959 | ''Fires on the Plain'' | Nagamatsu | | |- | 1962 | ''The Big Wave'' | Yukio | | |- | 1963 | ''Brave Records of the Sanada Clan'' | Yuri Kamanosuke | | |- | 1986 |''Jikuu Senshi Spielban'' | Emperor Guillotine | | |- | 1989 | ''Gunhed'' | Bansho | | |- | 1992 | ''8 Man'' | Sniper | | |- | 1995 | ''Kamikaze Taxi'' | Animaru | | |- |rowspan="2" | 1996 | ''Swallowtail Butterfly'' | Doctor | | |- | ''Fudoh: The New Generation'' | Yasha Gang Assassin | | |- |rowspan="2" | 1998 | ''Blues Harp'' | | | |- | ''Hana no O-Edo no Tsuribaka Nisshi'' | | | |- |rowspan="3" | 2001 | ''Cowboy Bebop: The Movie'' | Rasheed (voice) | | |- | ''Lily Festival'' | | | |- | ''Warm Water Under a Red Bridge'' | Nobuyuki Ohnishi | | |- |rowspan="3" | 2002 | ''Agitator'' | Yokomizo | | |- | ''The Laughing Frog'' | Kiichiro Aisawa | | |- | ''Aiki'' | Miyaji | | |- | 2003 | ''Kikoku'' | | | |- |rowspan="2" | 2004 | ''Izo'' | | | |- | ''Blooming Again'' | Jun'ichi Kuroi | | <ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/40993/|title= 死に花|access-date= November 17, 2021|work= eiga.com}}</ref> |- | 2005 | ''Custom Made 10.30'' | A god | | |- |rowspan="3" | 2008 | ''SS'' | Nishiyama President | | |- | ''Kurosagi'' | | | |- | ''Cafe Isobe'' | Hongo | | |- | 2011 | ''Deadball'' | | | |- | 2012 | ''Robo-G'' | Shigemitsu Suzuki | Lead role | <ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/56813/|title= ロボジー|access-date= November 17, 2021|work= eiga.com}}</ref> |- | 2016 | ''Drowning Love'' | Tetsuo | | <ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/83278/|title= 溺れるナイフ|access-date= November 17, 2021|work= eiga.com}}</ref> |- | 2019 | ''Until I Meet September's Love'' | Gondō | | <ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/88892/|title= 九月の恋と出会うまで|access-date= November 17, 2021|work= eiga.com}}</ref> |- | 2021 | ''Every Trick in the Book'' | | | <ref>{{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/428359|title= 藤原竜也が天才作家演じる「鳩の撃退法」、リリー・フランキーら出演者11名解禁|access-date= May 17, 2021|work= Natalie}}</ref> |- |}
===Television=== {|class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role |- | 1964–1965 | ''Stingray'' | Lieutenant Phones (Japanese Dub) |- | 1986–1987 | ''Jikuu Senshi Spielban'' | Emperor Guillotine |- | 2014 | ''Gunshi Kanbei'' | Matsunaga Hisahide |- |rowspan="2" | 2017 |''Quartet'' | Nemoto |- |''Yasuragi no Sato'' | Rokurō |- |}
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