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