Keiji Sada
Acting
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.
Born: December 9, 1926
Place of Birth: Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Tatsuoka
as Takazawa Shigeharu
as Ryosuke Kurumiya
as Jiro Okuyama
as Nagano Shuzen
as Ichirô Hasegawa
as Yajuro
as Keiji Sada
as Koichi
as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
as Yonesaku Nihei
as Takashi
as Kageyama Shôi
as Reiichiro Kadota
as Shotaru Goto
as Takashi Kiguchi
as Saburo Yaoi
as Takayama
as Kageyama Shôi
as Kazuo
as Tonomura
as Heiichiro Fukui
as Eitarô Makita
as Kageyama
as Masahiko Taniguchi
as Tsurukawa Matsuo
as Kaneshige
as Shiro Arisawa
as Kazuo
as Daisuke Kishimoto
as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
as Shaochang
as Ryoichi Morita
as Tatsuya
as Tamihiko Kujirai
as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
as Mr. Ogawa
as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
as Kohei
as Kobotoke Kohei
as Goro
as Shinichi Yasaka