Keiji Sada
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Film
An Autumn Afternoon
Koichi
1962
Series
Life of a Flower
Nagano Shuzen
1963
Film
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kageyama Shôi
1959
Film
Good Morning
Heiichiro Fukui
1959
Film
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Kageyama
1959
Film
Late Autumn
Shotaru Goto
1960
Film
Ballad of a Workman
Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
1962
Film
The Night We Danced
1963
Film
Hunting Rifle
Reiichiro Kadota
1961
Film
The Invisible Wall
1958
Film
When It Rains, It Pours
Kazuo
1957
Film
Equinox Flower
Masahiko Taniguchi
1958
Film
Immortal Love
Takashi
1961
Film
Home Sweet Home
Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
1951
Film
Sound of Youth
1956
Film
Assassination
1964
Film
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Kobotoke Kohei
1949
Film
A Japanese Tragedy
Tatsuya
1953
Film
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress
1956
Film
Carmen Comes Home
Mr. Ogawa
1951
Film
Sing, Young People!
Keiji Sada
1963
Film
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Film
Fireworks Over the Sea
Tamihiko Kujirai
1951
Film
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Ryoichi Morita
1954
Film
I Will Buy You
Daisuke Kishimoto
1956
Film
The Portrait
Nakajima
1948
Film
A Case of Honor
1957
Film
Escape from Hell
Yajuro
1963
Film
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958
Film
Love and Duty
1954
Film
Sweet Sweat
Tatsuoka
1964
Film
Aoi kairyū
1961
Film
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Shiro Arisawa
1957
Film
新婚たくあん夫婦
目白三平
1954
Film
Shūkin ryokō
1957
Film
Fountainhead
1956
Film
Every Day That New Life
1955
Film
A Roaring Trade
1962
Film
Blood Is Dry
Takashi Kiguchi
1960
Film
Brand of Evil
Takazawa Shigeharu
1964
Enraptured
1961
Film
Always in My Heart
1953
Film
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Ryosuke Kurumiya
1964
Film
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Kohei
1949
Film
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
Film
Irohanihoheto
1960
Film
Beauty of Life
1951
Film
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Tsurukawa Matsuo
1958
Film
The Last Trump Card
Shunsuke Tatsuno
1960
Film
Beautiful Days
Nakao
1955
Film
Tears
1956
Film
Here's to the Young Lady
Goro
1949
Film
Farewell to Spring
Eitarô Makita
1959
Film
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
Film
Shu no kafun
武中究二
1960
Film
The Glorious Days
1954
Film
Dobuike
Sadahiko Kanemitsu
1963
Film
Phoenix
Shinichi Yasaka
1947
Film
High Teen
1959
Film
Double Wedding
Jiro Okuyama
1963
Film
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
Film
The Tattered Wings
Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
1955
Film
Hanayome no o noroke
Denshichi Kumazawa
1958
Film
Monkey Business
Yoshizawa, Diet member
1957
Film
The Refugee
Shaochang
1955
Film
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Yonesaku Nihei
1961
Film
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Shinnosuke Koyanagi
1951
Film
Freedom School
1951
Film
Hibi no haishin
1958
愛情の旋風
1951
Film
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
1948
Bride in the Kitchen
1955
Film
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Kazuo
1959
Film
京化粧
1961
Film
The Hidden Profile
1963
Film
Mama, I Need You!
1962
Film
Doctor's Day Off
1952
Film
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
1952
Film
Danger Stalks Near
Kaneshige
1957
Hobo Village
1958
Film
Typhoon Furor
1956
Film
Young Miss Executive
1953
Film
People Waiting for Spring
Western-style painter Nishiwaki
1959
Film
An Angel Dreams Too
1951
Film
As the Clouds Scatter
Yoshimi Misaki
1961
Film
Secret Love
1962
Film
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Saburo Yaoi
1960
Film
俺は死なない
1956
Film
Youth After School
Ichirô Hasegawa
1963
Film
Hot Corner Murder
Takayama
1960
Film
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
1949
Film
Yassamossa
1953
Film
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Film
Uzu
1961
Film
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
1949
Film
Hakuji no hito
Goto
1957
Film
Umi no Chizu
Tonomura
1959
Film
Flower in a Storm
1962