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.

Known For

Life of a Flower

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

An Autumn Afternoon

Good Morning

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Late Autumn

Equinox Flower

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

All Movies (97)

• Sweet Sweat1964 · as Tatsuoka
• Assassination1964
• Brand of Evil1964 · as Takazawa Shigeharu
• To Your Majesty, The Emperor 21964 · as Ryosuke Kurumiya
• Monrō no yōna onna1964
• The Night We Danced1963
• Dobuike1963 · as Sadahiko Kanemitsu
• Double Wedding1963 · as Jiro Okuyama
• The House Where Flowers Bloom1963
• Youth After School1963 · as Ichirô Hasegawa
• The Hidden Profile1963
• Escape from Hell1963 · as Yajuro
• Sing, Young People!1963 · as Keiji Sada
• An Autumn Afternoon1962 · as Koichi
• Zoku aizen katsura1962
• Mama, I Need You!1962
• Ballad of a Workman1962 · as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
• Secret Love1962
• Flower in a Storm1962
• A Roaring Trade1962
• 京化粧1961
• With Wife, Children, and Friends1961 · as Yonesaku Nihei
• Immortal Love1961 · as Takashi
• As the Clouds Scatter1961
• Enraptured1961
• Aoi kairyū1961
• Uzu1961
• Hunting Rifle1961 · as Reiichiro Kadota
• Late Autumn1960 · as Shotaru Goto
• Blood Is Dry1960 · as Takashi Kiguchi
• The Last Trump Card1960 · as Shunsuke Tatsuno
• A Woman’s Uphill Slope1960 · as Saburo Yaoi
• Irohanihoheto1960
• Hot Corner Murder1960 · as Takayama
• Shu no kafun1960 · as 武中究二
• The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity1959 · as Kageyama Shôi
• Tokyo Omnibus1959
• Akatsuki no chiheisen1959 · as Kazuo
• Umi no Chizu1959 · as Tonomura
• High Teen1959
• Good Morning1959 · as Heiichiro Fukui
• Farewell to Spring1959 · as Eitarô Makita
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love1959 · as Kageyama
• People Waiting for Spring1959 · as Western-style painter Nishiwaki
• The Invisible Wall1958
• Equinox Flower1958 · as Masahiko Taniguchi
• Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi1958 · as Tsurukawa Matsuo
• Whirlpool of Flowers1958
• Hibi no haishin1958
• Hobo Village1958
• Hanayome no o noroke1958 · as Denshichi Kumazawa
• Danger Stalks Near1957 · as Kaneshige
• Shūkin ryokō1957
• Times of Joy and Sorrow1957 · as Shiro Arisawa
• Monkey Business1957 · as Yoshizawa, Diet member
• When It Rains, It Pours1957 · as Kazuo
• A Case of Honor1957
• 白磁の人1957
• Typhoon Furor1956
• I Will Buy You1956 · as Daisuke Kishimoto
• Tears1956
• Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress1956
• 俺は死なない1956
• Seishun no oto1956
• Fountainhead1956
• Every Day That New Life1955
• Bride in the Kitchen1955
• The Tattered Wings1955 · as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
• Beautiful Days1955 · as Nakao
• The Refugee1955 · as Shaochang
• Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky1954 · as Ryoichi Morita
• 新婚たくあん夫婦1954 · as 目白三平
• Always in My Heart Part 31954
• The Glorious Days1954
• Love and Duty1954
• Young Miss Executive1953
• Always in My Heart Part 21953
• Always in My Heart1953
• A Japanese Tragedy1953 · as Tatsuya
• Yassamossa1953
• Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove1952
• Doctor's Day Off1952
• Beauty of Life1951
• Fireworks Over the Sea1951 · as Tamihiko Kujirai
• Freedom School1951
• Carmen Comes Home1951 · as Mr. Ogawa
• Home Sweet Home1951 · as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
• 愛情の旋風1951
• The Inner Palace Conspiracy1951 · as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
• Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume1949
• Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 21949 · as Kohei
• Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 11949 · as Kobotoke Kohei
• Here's to the Young Lady1949 · as Goro
• Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume1949
• Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume1948
• The Portrait1948 · as Nakajima
• Phoenix1947 · as Shinichi Yasaka

All TV Shows (1)

• Life of a Flower1963 · as Nagano Shuzen