Keiji Sada
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.
Personal Details
Movies (49)
Sweet Sweat
as Tatsuoka
1964
Assassination
1964
Brand of Evil
as Takazawa Shigeharu
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Ryosuke Kurumiya
1964
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
The Night We Danced
1963
Double Wedding
as Jiro Okuyama
1963
Youth After School
as Ichirô Hasegawa
1963
The Hidden Profile
1963
Escape from Hell
as Yajuro
1963
Sing, Young People!
as Keiji Sada
1963
An Autumn Afternoon
as Koichi
1962
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Mama, I Need You!
1962
Ballad of a Workman
as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
1962
Secret Love
1962
Flower in a Storm
1962
A Roaring Trade
1962
京化粧
1961
With Wife, Children, and Friends
as Yonesaku Nihei
1961
Immortal Love
as Takashi
1961
As the Clouds Scatter
1961
Enraptured
1961
Uzu
1961
Hunting Rifle
as Reiichiro Kadota
1961
Late Autumn
as Shotaru Goto
1960
Blood Is Dry
as Takashi Kiguchi
1960
最後の切札
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
as Saburo Yaoi
1960
Irohanihoheto
1960
Hot Corner Murder
as Takayama
1960
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Kageyama Shôi
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Akatsuki no chiheisen
as Kazuo
1959
Umi no Chizu
as Tonomura
1959
High Teen
1959
Good Morning
as Heiichiro Fukui
1959
Farewell to Spring
as Eitarô Makita
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kageyama
1959
People Waiting for Spring
as Western-style painter Nishiwaki
1959
The Invisible Wall
1958
Equinox Flower
as Masahiko Taniguchi
1958
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
as Tsurukawa Matsuo
1958
Hibi no haishin
1958
Hobo Village
1958
Hanayome no o noroke
as Denshichi Kumazawa
1958
Danger Stalks Near
as Kaneshige
1957
Shūkin ryokō
1957
Times of Joy and Sorrow
as Shiro Arisawa
1957
