Keiji Sada
Birthday: Born in 1926-12-09 in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 1964-08-17
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Keiji Sada was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Blue Ribbon Awards for Anata kaimasu and Taifū sōdōki. He was the father of the actor Kiichi Nakai. He is primarily known for starring in Ozu films especially in the 1950s most famously Good morning (1959) he also was a supporting actor in 2 of the human condition films of which there were 3 in total, he died at the age of 37 in 1964.
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花の生涯
Character: Nagano Shuzen
The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke....
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Late Autumn
Character: Shotaru Goto
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband....
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Character: Kageyama
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police....
Youth After School
Character: Ichirô Hasegawa
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was broadcast on NHK TV in 1963, but the program recording technology was not mature at that time, and relevant people called it "phantom TV drama (幻のドラマ)". However, this TV series that was originally thought to be lost has been rediscovered after 50 years....
Equinox Flower
Character: Masahiko Taniguchi
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat....
Good Morning
Character: Heiichiro Fukui
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives g...
Zoku aizen katsura
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Flower in a Storm
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1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie...
A Roaring Trade
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Secret love
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A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji....
An Autumn Afternoon
Character: Koichi
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her....
A Japanese Tragedy
Character: Tatsuya
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable....
Assassination
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Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor....
Here's to the Young Lady
Character: Goro
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage....
Carmen Comes Home
Character: Mr. Ogawa
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist....
Immortal Love
Character: Takashi
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible....
I Will Buy You
Character: Daisuke Kishimoto
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers....
Phoenix
Character: Shinichi Yasaka
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband....
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Character: Ryoichi Morita
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails....
Beautiful Days
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Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists....
The Tattered Wings
Character: Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart....
Danger Stalks Near
Character: Kaneshige
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob....
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Character: Kobotoke Kohei
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband....
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Character: Kohei
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke....
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Character: Shiro Arisawa
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
Home Sweet Home
Character: Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony......
白磁の人
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俺は死なない
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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
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Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father, Ryutaro, whom she always thought was an agricultural and forestry engineer, was a circus clown. Over time, Mariko's singing attracted the attention of the public....
Freedom School
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Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion....
Fountainhead
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A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
Mama, I Need You!
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After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a brother and sister are working, and Kazuo becomes friendly with the girl, Yoneko. Love blossoms between the two. However, Yoneko's brother objects to his sister marrying Kazuo....
Blood Is Dry
Character: Takashi Kiguchi
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide....
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Character: Shinnosuke Koyanagi
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly plays a constantly intoxicated geisha in this all-star entertainment film....
Irohanihoheto
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The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard ti...
Always in My Heart
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Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names....
Uzu
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Always in My Heart Part 2
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
Always in My Heart Part 3
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe....
Fireworks Over the Sea
Character: Tamihiko Kujirai
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced....
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Character: Saburo Yaoi
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto....
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Character: Kageyama Shôi
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division....
Farewell to Spring
Character: Eitarô Makita
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were....
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Character: Yonesaku Nihei
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi....
The Portrait
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The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait....
Hunting Rifle
Character: Reiichiro Kadota
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry....
Ballad of a Workman
Character: Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family....
Brand of Evil
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A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm whom is really a crime lord responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment and now sets sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with....
Sing, Young People
Character: Keiji Sada
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star....
As the Clouds Scatter
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A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil....
The Refugee
Character: Shaochang
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end o...
The Invisible Wall
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Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto....
Escape from Hell
Character: Yajuro
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto....
The Hidden Profile
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Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto....
High Teen
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Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush...
Tokyo Omnibus
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The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages an...
Hot Corner Murder
Character: Takayama
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game....
The Night We Danced
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Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together....
Young Miss Executive
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A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But Madoka wants to be a stage dancer, so she won't concentrate her office job. Madoka meets Akiyama, a stage director. Akiyama introduce her to his neighbors. In among poor but open minded people, Madoka has changed. Her new ambition is her company provide nice sweets for children. She decide to focus on the office job. But she doesn't know that company...
Sweet Sweat
Character: Tatsuoka
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised....
Love and Duty
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Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love....
Tears
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A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover....
A Case of Honor
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The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble....
Double Wedding
Character: Jiro Okuyama
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Yassamossa
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Doctor's Day Off
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Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off......
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Character: Ryosuke Kurumiya
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance....
Typhoon
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A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one....
The Glorious Days
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Beauty of Life
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Umi no Chizu
Character: Tonomura
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing....