Susumu Fujita
Born: 1912-01-08 in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
Died: 1991-03-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susumu Fujita (藤田 進 Fujita Susumu, 8 January 1912 – 23 March 1991) was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Akira Kurosawa's first feature, Sanshiro Sugata, and appeared other Kurosawa film including The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (as Togashi, commander of the border guards) and The Hidden Fortress (as General Tadokoro). Later, he was a supporting actor in Ishirō Honda's Mothra vs. Godzilla, among many other films. Before and during World War II Fujita was considered one of the great stars of Japanese cinema. In the post-war period he became known for supporting roles, often playing a soldier in war films. During the sixties and seventies he played minor roles in tokusatsu or "special effects pictures" such as Ultraman and Frankenstein Conquers the World. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susumu Fujita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1983
- Detective Story as Gozo Kunizaki
1982
1981
- Good Luck Love
- The Imperial Navy as Navy Minister Oikawa
- Baian the Assassin as Hanuemon Otowaya
- Blue Jeans Memory
1979
1978
- Winter's Flower as Ryokichi Sakata
1975
1971
- Return of Ultraman as Fumio Kishida
- Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters as Chief Kishida
- Shiosai
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- Return of Ultraman as Chief Kishida
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
- The Militarists as Osami Nagano
- A Young Man's Stronghold
1969
- Battle of the Japan Sea as Uemura
- The Falcon Fighters
1968
- Admiral Yamamoto as Kurita
- 風来忍法帖 八方破れ
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
- Kojiro as Shogen the Instructor
1966
- Ultraman as Chief of Staff of the Defense Force
- Rub Out the Past as Tokutaro Hayami
- Rampaging Dragon of the North
- Zero Fighter
1965
- A Fugitive from the Past as Police Chief
- Frankenstein Conquers the World as Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
- The Retreat from Kiska as Akitani
- 風来忍法帖
- Samurai Assassin as Tatewaki Todo
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as President Shōji (Kansai Department Store)
1964
- Mothra vs. Godzilla as Head of JSDF Task Force
- Dogora as General Iwasa
- Trap of Suicide Kilometer
- The Sandal Keeper
1963
- High and Low as Chief of First Investigating Section
- Siege of Fort Bismarck
- Attack Squadron as Yamato Commander Ito
- Young Swordsman as Kagawa Tanomo
- Atragon as Defense Commander
1962
- Chûshingura
- Mount Hakone
- Operation Sewer Rats as Lieutenant Masamune
1961
- Yojimbo as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
- Daredevil in the Castle as Katsuyasu Sakakibara
- Challenge to Live
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Detective
- The Storm of the Pacific
- Yakuza of Ina as Boss Daihachi
- The Gambling Samurai as Magistrate Jubei Matsui
1959
- The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity as Naruto Nitôhei
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as General Yano
- The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
- Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
1958
- The Hidden Fortress as General Hyoe Tadokoro
- Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
- Eight Views of Samurai
- The Spider-Man as Kogoro Akechi
1957
- The Mysterians as Gen. Morita
- Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War as Kaoru Inoue
- Escapade in Japan
- Street of Ronin
- The Decoy as Saitō (Chief Inspector)
1955
1954
- 日本敗れず
- Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten as Kingorô Tamai
- Hanran
- Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
- Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô as Kingorô Tamai
1953
- Yasen kangofu
- Tower of Lilies as Dr. Oka
- The Battleship Yamato as Jiro Nomura
1952
- Sunset Over Mount Fuji as Iori Saotome
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail as Togashi
1951
- Karate Sanshiro
- Akatsuki no Kyūshū as Chief Takagi
- 新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
- 新遊侠伝
- Bengawan Solo as Sergeant Odagiri
- アベック・パトロール 赤い鍵
- Sekidô matsuri
1950
- Sanshiro of Ginza as Kumasuke Arai
- Heat and Mud
- Snow-Flake as Mimaki
- Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
1949
- Ishimatsu of the Forest as Ishimatsu
- Kirare no Senta
- 白頭巾現わる
- Return to Japan
1948
- A Flower Blooms as Teruhiko Kuwai
- Kōfuku no genkai
- Living Image
1947
1946
- Those Who Make Tomorrow as Fujita
- An Enemy of the People
- A Descendant of Urashima Taro as Goro Urashima
- Lord for a Night
- No Regrets for Our Youth as Ruykichi Noge
1945
- Sanshiro Sugata Part Two as Sanshiro Sugata
- Kanchō umi no bara
- Three Women of the North
- Duel at Yagyu Valley as Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
1944
- Battle Troop as Mikami
- Nichijô no tatakai
- Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron as Colonel Kato
1943
- Sanshiro Sugata as Sanshiro Sugata
- Hot Wind as Kensuke Shibata
1942
- Currents of Youth as Murakami, Test Pilot
- Green Earth
- The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya as Yamashita
- Mother Never Dies
1941
- Story of Leadership as Shintaro Sagawa
1939
- Machi as Youth Officer
- The Whole Family Works as Genji's fellow worker
- Song of the White Orchid