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