Susumu Fujita

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susumu Fujita (藤田 進 Fujita Susumu, 8 January 1912 – 23 March 1991) was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Akira Kurosawa's first feature, Sanshiro Sugata, and appeared other Kurosawa film including The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (as Togashi, commander of the border guards) and The Hidden Fortress (as General Tadokoro). Later, he was a supporting actor in Ishirō Honda's Mothra vs. Godzilla, among many other films. Before and during World War II Fujita was considered one of the great stars of Japanese cinema. In the post-war period he became known for supporting roles, often playing a soldier in war films. During the sixties and seventies he played minor roles in tokusatsu or "special effects pictures" such as Ultraman and Frankenstein Conquers the World. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susumu Fujita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Ultraman

Return of Ultraman

High and Low

Yojimbo

Tora! Tora! Tora!

The Hidden Fortress

Mothra vs. Godzilla

The Bad Sleep Well

All Movies (136)

• Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!1984
• Detective Story1983 · as Gozo Kunizaki
• The Longest Tunnel1982
• Good Luck Love1981
• The Imperial Navy1981 · as Navy Minister Oikawa
• Blue Jeans Memory1981
• Baian the Assassin1981 · as Hanuemon Otowaya
• Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle1979 · as Chief
• Winter's Flower1978 · as Ryokichi Sakata
• Japanese Humanity and Justice1977
• The Gate of Youth1975
• Lullaby for a Tough Guy1972
• New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter1971
• Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters1971 · as Chief Kishida
• Shiosai1971
• New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape1971
• Return of Ultraman1971 · as Chief Kishida
• The Militarists1970 · as Osami Nagano
• Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss1970
• A Young Man's Stronghold1970
• Tora! Tora! Tora!1970 · as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
• The Falcon Fighters1969
• Battle of the Japan Sea1969 · as Uemura
• Admiral Yamamoto1968 · as Kurita
• 風来忍法帖　八方破れ1968
• Japan's Longest Day1967 · as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
• Kojiro1967 · as Shogen the Instructor
• Rampaging Dragon of the North1966
• Rub Out the Past1966 · as Tokutaro Hayami
• Zero Fighter1966
• Frankenstein Conquers the World1965 · as Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
• The Retreat from Kiska1965 · as Akitani
• 風来忍法帖1965
• President's Ninja Trick Book Part II1965 · as President Shōji (Kansai Department Store)
• A Fugitive from the Past1965 · as Police Chief
• Samurai Assassin1965 · as Tatewaki Todo
• The Sandal Keeper1964
• Dogora1964 · as General Iwasa
• Mothra vs. Godzilla1964 · as Head of JSDF Task Force
• Trap of Suicide Kilometer1964
• Atragon1963 · as Defense Commander
• Young Swordsman1963 · as Kagawa Tanomo
• Siege of Fort Bismarck1963
• High and Low1963 · as Chief of First Investigating Section
• Attack Squadron1963 · as Yamato Commander Ito
• Chûshingura1962
• Mount Hakone1962
• Operation Sewer Rats1962 · as Lieutenant Masamune
• Challenge to Live1961
• Yojimbo1961 · as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
• Daredevil in the Castle1961 · as Katsuyasu Sakakibara
• The Bad Sleep Well1960 · as Detective
• The Storm of the Pacific1960
• The Gambling Samurai1960 · as Magistrate Jubei Matsui
• Yakuza of Ina1960 · as Boss Daihachi
• The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity1959 · as Naruto Nitôhei
• Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender1959
• The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung1959
• I Want to Be a Shellfish1959 · as General Yano
• The Hidden Fortress1958 · as General Hyoe Tadokoro
• The Spider-Man1958 · as Kogoro Akechi
• Eight Views of Samurai1958
• Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War1958
• The Mysterians1957 · as Gen. Morita
• Escapade in Japan1957
• The Decoy1957 · as Saitō (Chief Inspector)
• Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War1957 · as Kaoru Inoue
• Street of Ronin1957
• Royalist or Shogunate Loyalist? — Women's Mandala1956
• Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets1956
• 銀蛇の岩屋1956
• Kingoro's Soldier1956
• Nobuko Rides on a Cloud1955 · as Dad
• Nonki saiban1955
• 日本敗れず1954
• Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced1954
• Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten1954 · as Kingorô Tamai
• Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô1954 · as Kingorô Tamai
• Hanran1954
• Yasen kangofu1953
• The Battleship Yamato1953 · as Jiro Nomura
• Tower of Lilies1953 · as Dr. Oka
• Sunset Over Mount Fuji1952 · as Iori Saotome
• The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail1952 · as Togashi
• Karate Sanshiro1951
• Akatsuki no Kyūshū1951 · as Chief Takagi
• Sekidô matsuri1951
• Bengawan Solo1951 · as Sergeant Odagiri
• 新遊侠伝　遊侠往来1951
• 新遊侠伝1951
• The Red Key1951
• Phoenix1950
• Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi1950
• Snow-Flake1950 · as Mimaki
• Heat and Mud1950
• Sanshiro of Ginza1950 · as Kumasuke Arai
• Return to Japan1949
• Ishimatsu of the Forest1949 · as Ishimatsu
• Kirare no Senta1949
• 白頭巾現わる1949
• Kōfuku no genkai1948
• Living Image1948
• Fujisancho1948
• A Flower Blooms1948 · as Teruhiko Kuwai
• Rira no hana wasureji1947
• The Age of Beginnings1947 · as Goro Asahina
• A Thousand and One Nights with Toho1947
• No Regrets for Our Youth1946 · as Ruykichi Noge
• Lord for a Night1946
• Beauty1946 · as Shinichi Tazawa
• Those Who Make Tomorrow1946 · as Fujita
• An Enemy of the People1946
• A Descendant of Urashima Taro1946 · as Goro Urashima
• Three Women of the North1945
• Duel at Yagyu Valley1945 · as Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
• Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two1945 · as Sanshiro Sugata
• Kanchō umi no bara1945
• Battle Troop1944 · as Mikami
• Nichijô no tatakai1944
• Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron1944 · as Colonel Kato
• Searing Wind1943 · as Kensuke Shibata
• Sanshiro Sugata1943 · as Sanshiro Sugata
• The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya1942 · as Yamashita
• Mother Never Dies1942
• Green Earth1942
• Currents of Youth1942 · as Murakami, Test Pilot
• Story of Leadership1941 · as Shintaro Sagawa
• Oath on the Burning Sands1940
• A World of Two1940
• Okumura Ioka1940
• Navy Bomb Squadron1940
• The Burning Sky1940
• Song of the White Orchid1939
• Madam with a Ribbon1939
• The Town1939 · as Youth Officer
• The Whole Family Works1939 · as Genji's fellow worker

All TV Shows (3)

• Return of Ultraman1971 · as Fumio Kishida
• Attention Please1970
• Ultraman1966 · as Chief of Staff of the Defense Force