Keiji Sada
Birthday: 1926-12-09
Deathday: 1964-08-17
Birthplace: Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Credits
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1964-09-19 | Sweet Sweat | Tatsuoka |
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1964-07-04 | Assassination | |
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1964-05-29 | Brand of Evil | Takazawa Shigeharu |
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1964-01-01 | To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 | Ryosuke Kurumiya |
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1964-01-01 | Monrō no yōna onna | |
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1963-12-14 | The Night We Danced | |
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1963-07-13 | Double Wedding | Jiro Okuyama |
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1963-03-21 | Youth After School | Ichirô Hasegawa |
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1963-02-17 | The Hidden Profile | |
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1963-01-27 | Escape from Hell | Yajuro |
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1963-01-06 | Sing, Young People! | Keiji Sada |
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1962-11-18 | An Autumn Afternoon | Koichi |
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1962-10-24 | Zoku aizen katsura | |
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1962-10-13 | Mama, I Need You! | |
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1962-08-12 | Ballad of a Workman | Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband |
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1962-04-18 | Secret Love | |
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1962-04-01 | Flower in a Storm | |
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1962-01-03 | A Roaring Trade | |
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1961-11-22 | 京化粧 | |
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1961-11-01 | With Wife, Children, and Friends | Yonesaku Nihei |
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1961-09-16 | Immortal Love | Takashi |
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1961-07-09 | As the Clouds Scatter | |
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1961-04-18 | Enraptured | |
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1961-01-15 | Uzu | |
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1961-01-03 | Hunting Rifle | Reiichiro Kadota |
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1960-11-13 | Late Autumn | Shotaru Goto |
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1960-10-09 | Blood Is Dry | Takashi Kiguchi |
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1960-09-20 | 最後の切札 | |
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1960-06-17 | A Woman’s Uphill Slope | Saburo Yaoi |
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1960-05-20 | Irohanihoheto | |
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1960-02-12 | Hot Corner Murder | Takayama |
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1959-11-20 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | Kageyama Shôi |
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1959-10-30 | Tokyo Omnibus | |
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1959-09-20 | Akatsuki no chiheisen | Kazuo |
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1959-06-30 | Umi no Chizu | Tonomura |
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1959-05-26 | High Teen | |
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1959-05-12 | Good Morning | Heiichiro Fukui |
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1959-04-28 | Farewell to Spring | Eitarô Makita |
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1959-01-15 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | Kageyama |
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1959-01-09 | People Waiting for Spring | Western-style painter Nishiwaki |
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1958-10-15 | The Invisible Wall | |
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1958-09-07 | Equinox Flower | Masahiko Taniguchi |
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1958-07-13 | Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi | Tsurukawa Matsuo |
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1958-02-16 | Hibi no haishin | |
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1958-01-29 | Hobo Village | |
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1958-01-03 | Hanayome no o noroke | Denshichi Kumazawa |
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1957-12-01 | Danger Stalks Near | Kaneshige |
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1957-10-29 | Shūkin ryokō | |
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1957-10-01 | Times of Joy and Sorrow | Shiro Arisawa |
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1957-06-11 | When It Rains, It Pours | Kazuo |
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1957-02-20 | A Case of Honor | |
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1957-01-15 | 白磁の人 | |
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1956-12-19 | Typhoon | |
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1956-11-21 | I Will Buy You | Daisuke Kishimoto |
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1956-09-26 | Tears | |
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1956-08-21 | 俺は死なない | |
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1956-07-06 | Seishun no oto | |
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1956-02-26 | Fountainhead | |
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1955-08-31 | The Tattered Wings | Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law |
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1955-05-25 | Beautiful Days | |
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1955-05-03 | The Refugee | Shaochang |
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1954-11-23 | Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky | Ryoichi Morita |
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1954-04-27 | Always in My Heart Part 3 | |
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1954-04-14 | The Glorious Days | |
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1954-03-24 | Love and Duty | |
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1953-12-29 | Young Miss Executive | |
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1953-12-01 | Always in My Heart Part 2 | |
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1953-09-15 | Always in My Heart | |
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1953-06-17 | A Japanese Tragedy | Tatsuya |
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1953-02-25 | Yassamossa | |
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1952-07-15 | Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove | |
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1952-04-01 | Doctor's Day Off | |
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1951-12-07 | Beauty of Life | |
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1951-10-25 | Fireworks Over the Sea | Tamihiko Kujirai |
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1951-05-05 | Freedom School | |
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1951-03-21 | Carmen Comes Home | Mr. Ogawa |
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1951-03-21 | Home Sweet Home | Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend |
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1951-02-10 | 愛情の旋風 | |
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1951-01-13 | The Inner Palace Conspiracy | Shinnosuke Koyanagi |
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1949-11-17 | Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume | |
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1949-07-16 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 | Kohei |
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1949-07-05 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 | Kobotoke Kohei |
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1949-03-09 | Here's to the Young Lady | Goro |
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1949-01-25 | Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume | |
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1948-11-29 | Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume | |
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1948-08-03 | The Portrait | Nakajima |
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1947-12-11 | Phoenix | Shinichi Yasaka |