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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 25

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

Keiji Sada was a Japanese actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 7th Blue Ribbon Awards for Anata Kaimasu (I Will Buy You) and Taifū Sōdōki (Typhoon). He was the father of the actor Kiichi Nakai. Sada is primarily known for starring in Ozu films, especially in the 1950s and most famously Good Morning (1959). He also was a supporting actor in two films of Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy. Sada was born in Kyoto in 1926. While a student, he roomed at a boarding house owned by the actor Shuji Sano, and on graduation was offered a position at Shochiku Studios. He was paired with Kinuyo Tanaka for his debut appearance, Keisuke Kinoshita's Phoenix. Sada was killed in a car crash in 1964. His wife and children were unharmed. He was 37.

Most Famous Work

An Autumn Afternoon
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8

An Autumn Afternoon

(1962) Koichi
Life of a Flower
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0

Life of a Flower

(1963) Nagano Shuzen
Immortal Love
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8

Immortal Love

(1961) Takashi
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
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8
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
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8
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
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7

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

(1949) Kobotoke Kohei
Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama
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Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama

(1964) Ryosuke Kurumiya
A Japanese Tragedy
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6

A Japanese Tragedy

(1953) Tatsuya

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1964 N/A
N/A
N/A
Ryosuke Kurumiya
1963 N/A
Jiro Okuyama
Nagano Shuzen
Ichirô Hasegawa
N/A
Yajuro
Keiji Sada
1962 Koichi
N/A
N/A
Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
N/A
N/A
N/A
1961 Takashi
N/A
N/A
Reiichiro Kadota
1960 Shotaru Goto
Takashi Kiguchi
Takayama
1959 Kageyama Shôi
N/A
Tonomura
N/A
Heiichiro Fukui
Eitarô Makita
Kageyama
1958 N/A
Masahiko Taniguchi
N/A
1957 Kaneshige
N/A
Kazuo
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N/A
1956 N/A
Daisuke Kishimoto
N/A
N/A
N/A
1955 Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
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Shaochang
1954 Ryoichi Morita
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1953 N/A
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Tatsuya
Таскэ Акамацу
1952 N/A
N/A
1951 N/A
Tamihiko Kujirai
Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
Mr. Ogawa
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Shinnosuke Koyanagi
1949 Kohei
Kobotoke Kohei
Goro
1948 N/A
1947 Shinichi Yasaka
Year Character Movie/Tv

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