Keiji Sada
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.
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Full filmography
- Life of a Flower (1963) as Nagano Shuzen
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) as Kageyama
- Good Morning (1959) as Heiichiro Fukui
- Late Autumn (1960) as Shotaru Goto
- Equinox Flower (1958) as Masahiko Taniguchi
- The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) as Kageyama Shôi
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) as Koichi
- Immortal Love (1961) as Takashi
- A Japanese Tragedy (1953) as Tatsuya
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope (1960) as Saburo Yaoi
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) as Kobotoke Kohei
- Beautiful Days (1955) as Nakao
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 (1964) as Ryosuke Kurumiya
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949) as Kohei
- Brand of Evil (1964) as Takazawa Shigeharu
- Fountainhead (1956)
- Sweet Sweat (1964) as Tatsuoka
- Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) as Shiro Arisawa
- Youth After School (1963) as Ichirô Hasegawa
- Always in My Heart Part 3 (1954)
- Freedom School (1951)
- Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)
- Farewell to Spring (1959) as Eitarô Makita
- Tokyo Omnibus (1959)