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Keiji Sada
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…
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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.
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1964
Sweet Sweat
Movie Tatsuoka
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1964
Assassination
Movie
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1964
Brand of Evil
Movie Takazawa Shigeharu
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1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie Ryosuke Kurumiya
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1964
Monrō no yōna onna
Movie
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1963
The Night We Danced
Movie
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1963
Dobuike
Movie Sadahiko Kanemitsu
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1963
Double Wedding
Movie Jiro Okuyama
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1963
Life of a Flower
TV show Nagano Shuzen
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1963
Youth After School
Movie Ichirô Hasegawa
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1963
The Hidden Profile
Movie
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1963
Escape from Hell
Movie Yajuro
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1963
Sing, Young People!
Movie Keiji Sada
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1962
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie Koichi
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1962
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie
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1962
Mama, I Need You!
Movie
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1962
Ballad of a Workman
Movie Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
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1962
Secret Love
Movie
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1962
Flower in a Storm
Movie
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1962
A Roaring Trade
Movie
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1961
京化粧
Movie
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1961
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Movie Yonesaku Nihei
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1961
Immortal Love
Movie Takashi
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1961
As the Clouds Scatter
Movie Yoshimi Misaki
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1961
Enraptured
Movie
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1961
Aoi kairyū
Movie
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1961
Uzu
Movie
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1961
Hunting Rifle
Movie Reiichiro Kadota
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1960
Late Autumn
Movie Shotaru Goto
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1960
Blood Is Dry
Movie Takashi Kiguchi
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1960
The Last Trump Card
Movie Shunsuke Tatsuno
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1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Movie Saburo Yaoi
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1960
Irohanihoheto
Movie
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1960
Hot Corner Murder
Movie Takayama
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1960
Shu no kafun
Movie 武中究二
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1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Movie Kageyama Shôi
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1959
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie
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1959
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Movie Kazuo
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1959
Umi no Chizu
Movie Tonomura
