Keiji Sada
Born: 1926-12-09
Died: 1964-08-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1964
- Assassination
- Brand of Evil as Takazawa Shigeharu
- Sweet Sweat as Tatsuoka
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 as Ryosuke Kurumiya
- Monrō no yōna onna
1963
- Life of a Flower as Nagano Shuzen
- Double Wedding as Jiro Okuyama
- Escape from Hell as Yajuro
- Youth After School as Ichirô Hasegawa
- Sing, Young People! as Keiji Sada
- The Hidden Profile
- The Night We Danced
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Koichi
- Mama, I Need You!
- Secret Love
- Zoku aizen katsura
- Flower in a Storm
- A Roaring Trade
- Ballad of a Workman as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
1961
- Immortal Love as Takashi
- With Wife, Children, and Friends as Yonesaku Nihei
- Uzu
- As the Clouds Scatter
- 京化粧
- Enraptured
- Hunting Rifle as Reiichiro Kadota
- Aoi kairyū
1960
- Late Autumn as Shotaru Goto
- Irohanihoheto
- Blood Is Dry as Takashi Kiguchi
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope as Saburo Yaoi
- Hot Corner Murder as Takayama
- The Last Trump Card as Shunsuke Tatsuno
- 朱の花粉 as 武中究二
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Kageyama
- Good Morning as Heiichiro Fukui
- The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity as Kageyama Shôi
- Farewell to Spring as Eitarô Makita
- Tokyo Omnibus
- Umi no Chizu as Tonomura
- High Teen
- Akatsuki no chiheisen as Kazuo
- People Waiting for Spring as Western-style painter Nishiwaki
1958
- Equinox Flower as Masahiko Taniguchi
- Hibi no haishin
- Hobo Village
- Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi as Tsurukawa Matsuo
- Hanayome no o noroke as Denshichi Kumazawa
- The Invisible Wall
- Whirlpool of Flowers
1957
- Times of Joy and Sorrow as Shiro Arisawa
- 白磁の人
- Danger Stalks Near as Kaneshige
- Shūkin ryokō
- A Case of Honor
- When It Rains, It Pours as Kazuo
- Monkey Business as Yoshizawa, Diet member
1956
1955
- The Refugee as Shaochang
- The Tattered Wings as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
- Beautiful Days as Nakao
- Every Day That New Life
- Bride in the Kitchen
1954
- The Glorious Days
- Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky as Ryoichi Morita
- Always in My Heart Part 3
- Love and Duty
- 新婚たくあん夫婦 as 目白三平
1953
1951
- Carmen Comes Home as Mr. Ogawa
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
- Freedom School
- Beauty of Life
- 愛情の旋風
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tamihiko Kujirai
- Home Sweet Home as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
1949
1948
1947
- Phoenix as Shinichi Yasaka