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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 9, 1926
Died
August 17, 1964
Place of Birth
Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Keiji Sada
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.5
Tatsuoka
Sweet Sweat
1964
7.1
Assassination
1964
7.5
Takazawa Shigeharu
Brand of Evil
1964
0.0
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
0.0
Ryosuke Kurumiya
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964
0.0
The Night We Danced
1963
0.0
Jiro Okuyama
Double Wedding
1963
7.0
Nagano Shuzen
Life of a Flower
1963
0.0
Ichirô Hasegawa
Youth After School
1963
6.0
The Hidden Profile
1963
Credits
Sweet Sweat
as Tatsuoka
1964
7.5
Assassination
1964
7.1
Brand of Evil
as Takazawa Shigeharu
1964
7.5
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
0.0
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Ryosuke Kurumiya
1964
0.0
The Night We Danced
1963
0.0
Double Wedding
as Jiro Okuyama
1963
0.0
Life of a Flower
as Nagano Shuzen
1963
7.0
Youth After School
as Ichirô Hasegawa
1963
0.0
The Hidden Profile
1963
6.0
Escape from Hell
as Yajuro
1963
6.2
Sing, Young People!
as Keiji Sada
1963
5.8
An Autumn Afternoon
as Koichi
1962
7.8
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
0.0
Mama, I Need You!
1962
0.0
Ballad of a Workman
as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
1962
5.7
Secret Love
1962
0.0
Flower in a Storm
1962
0.0
A Roaring Trade
1962
0.0
京化粧
1961
0.0
With Wife, Children, and Friends
as Yonesaku Nihei
1961
0.0
Immortal Love
as Takashi
1961
7.5
As the Clouds Scatter
1961
5.2
🎬
Enraptured
1961
0.0
Uzu
1961
0.0
Hunting Rifle
as Reiichiro Kadota
1961
7.0
Late Autumn
as Shotaru Goto
1960
7.7
Blood Is Dry
as Takashi Kiguchi
1960
6.0
最後の切札
1960
0.0
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
as Saburo Yaoi
1960
0.0
Irohanihoheto
1960
0.0
Hot Corner Murder
as Takayama
1960
0.0
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Kageyama Shôi
1959
8.2
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
0.0
Akatsuki no chiheisen
as Kazuo
1959
0.0
Umi no Chizu
as Tonomura
1959
0.0
High Teen
1959
0.0
Good Morning
as Heiichiro Fukui
1959
7.7
Farewell to Spring
as Eitarô Makita
1959
6.2
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kageyama
1959
8.1
People Waiting for Spring
as Western-style painter Nishiwaki
1959
0.0
The Invisible Wall
1958
0.0
Equinox Flower
as Masahiko Taniguchi
1958
7.4
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
as Tsurukawa Matsuo
1958
0.0
Hibi no haishin
1958
0.0
🎬
Hobo Village
1958
0.0
Hanayome no o noroke
as Denshichi Kumazawa
1958
0.0
Danger Stalks Near
as Kaneshige
1957
5.3
Shūkin ryokō
1957
0.0
Times of Joy and Sorrow
as Shiro Arisawa
1957
9.0
When It Rains, It Pours
as Kazuo
1957
6.0
A Case of Honor
1957
0.0
白磁の人
1957
0.0
Typhoon
1956
0.0
I Will Buy You
as Daisuke Kishimoto
1956
7.0
Tears
1956
0.0
俺は死なない
1956
0.0
Fountainhead
1956
5.8
The Tattered Wings
as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
1955
5.9
Beautiful Days
1955
6.6
The Refugee
as Shaochang
1955
0.0
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Ryoichi Morita
1954
6.0
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
7.0
The Glorious Days
1954
0.0
Love and Duty
1954
0.0
Young Miss Executive
1953
0.0
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
6.5
Always in My Heart
1953
6.8
A Japanese Tragedy
as Tatsuya
1953
5.3
Yassamossa
1953
0.0
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
1952
0.0
Doctor's Day Off
1952
6.0
Beauty of Life
1951
0.0
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Tamihiko Kujirai
1951
4.7
Freedom School
1951
0.0
Home Sweet Home
as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
1951
6.8
Carmen Comes Home
as Mr. Ogawa
1951
6.0
🎬
愛情の旋風
1951
0.0
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
1951
0.0
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
1949
0.0
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Kohei
1949
6.5
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Kobotoke Kohei
1949
6.5
Here's to the Young Lady
as Goro
1949
6.5
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
1949
0.0
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
1948
0.0
The Portrait
1948
6.0
Phoenix
as Shinichi Yasaka
1947
5.9