Keiji Sada

Born: 1926-12-09

​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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Good Morning

as Heiichiro Fukui
Released: 1959-05-12

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

as Kageyama
Released: 1959-01-15

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...

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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

as Kageyama Shôi
Released: 1959-11-20

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...

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An Autumn Afternoon

as Koichi
Released: 1962-11-18

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...

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Late Autumn

as Shotaru Goto
Released: 1960-11-13

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...

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Equinox Flower

as Masahiko Taniguchi
Released: 1958-09-07

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...

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Fireworks Over the Sea

as Tamihiko Kujirai
Released: 1951-10-25

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...

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Sing, Young People

as Keiji Sada
Released: 1963-01-06

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...

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Secret love

as uncredited
Released: 1962-04-18

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of...

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Immortal Love

as Takashi
Released: 1961-09-16

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the...

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Carmen Comes Home

as Mr. Ogawa
Released: 1951-03-21

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...

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The Inner Palace Conspiracy

as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
Released: 1951-01-13

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...

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A Japanese Tragedy

as Tatsuya
Released: 1953-06-17

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up...

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Assassination

as uncredited
Released: 1964-07-04

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay,...

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Fountainhead

as uncredited
Released: 1956-02-26

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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I Will Buy You

as Daisuke Kishimoto
Released: 1956-11-21

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...

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Blood Is Dry

as Takashi Kiguchi
Released: 1960-10-09

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a...

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Times of Joy and Sorrow

as Shiro Arisawa
Released: 1957-10-01

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

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Zoku aizen katsura

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-24

1962 Japanese movie

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Ballad of a Workman

as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
Released: 1962-08-12

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to...

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

as Kobotoke Kohei
Released: 1949-07-05

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...

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Hunting Rifle

as Reiichiro Kadota
Released: 1961-01-03

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger...

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The Portrait

as uncredited
Released: 1948-08-03

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an...

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Here's to the Young Lady

as Goro
Released: 1949-03-09

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of...

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Farewell to Spring

as Eitarô Makita
Released: 1959-04-28

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not...

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Sweet Sweat

as Tatsuoka
Released: 1964-09-19

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo),...

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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

as Ryoichi Morita
Released: 1954-11-23

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...

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The Tattered Wings

as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
Released: 1955-08-31

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor...

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Doctor's Day Off

as uncredited
Released: 1952-04-01

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day...

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With Wife, Children, and Friends

as Yonesaku Nihei
Released: 1961-11-01

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the...

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The Refugee

as Shaochang
Released: 1955-05-03

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is...

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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2

as Ryosuke Kurumiya
Released: 1964-01-01

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military...

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A Woman’s Uphill Slope

as Saburo Yaoi
Released: 1960-06-17

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

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Home Sweet Home

as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
Released: 1951-03-21

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded...

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Love and Duty

as uncredited
Released: 1954-03-24

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She...

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The Invisible Wall

as uncredited
Released: 1958-10-15

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

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Tokyo Omnibus

as uncredited
Released: 1959-10-30

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

as Kohei
Released: 1949-07-16

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...

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The Glorious Days

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-14

The Glorious Days

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A Roaring Trade

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-03

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Freedom School

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-05

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...

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Danger Stalks Near

as Kaneshige
Released: 1957-12-01

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house...

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Double Wedding

as Jiro Okuyama
Released: 1963-07-13

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Always in My Heart Part 3

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-27

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet...

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Mama, I Need You!

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-13

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother...

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Brand of Evil

as uncredited
Released: 1964-05-29

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he...

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Irohanihoheto

as uncredited
Released: 1960-05-20

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano,...

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As the Clouds Scatter

as uncredited
Released: 1961-07-09

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he...

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俺は死なない

as uncredited
Released: 1956-08-21

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Always in My Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-15

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...

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Beautiful Days

as uncredited
Released: 1955-05-25

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

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Umi no Chizu

as Tonomura
Released: 1959-06-30

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby...

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Typhoon

as uncredited
Released: 1956-12-19

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has...

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Youth After School

as Ichirô Hasegawa
Released: 1963-03-21

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that...

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白磁の人

as uncredited
Released: 1957-01-15

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Yassamossa

as uncredited
Released: 1953-02-25

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Escape from Hell

as Yajuro
Released: 1963-01-27

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...

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The Hidden Profile

as uncredited
Released: 1963-02-17

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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The Night We Danced

as uncredited
Released: 1963-12-14

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

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Flower in a Storm

as uncredited
Released: 1962-04-01

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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Always in My Heart Part 2

as uncredited
Released: 1953-12-01

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

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A Case of Honor

as uncredited
Released: 1957-02-20

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a...

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Young Miss Executive

as uncredited
Released: 1953-12-29

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old...

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Phoenix

as Shinichi Yasaka
Released: 1947-12-11

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove

as uncredited
Released: 1952-07-15

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father...

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Tears

as uncredited
Released: 1956-09-26

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

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Beauty of Life

as uncredited
Released: 1951-12-07

Inochi uruwashi

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High Teen

as uncredited
Released: 1959-05-26

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of...

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Hot Corner Murder

as Takayama
Released: 1960-02-12

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

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Uzu

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-15

1961 Japanese movie

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Life of a Flower

as Nagano Shuzen
First aired: 1963-04-07

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

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