Keiji Sada

Personal Info

Birthday

December 9, 1926

Day of Death

1964-08-17

(37 years old)

Place of Birth

Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

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.

Known For

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

I Will Buy You

Escape from Hell

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Fireworks Over the Sea

Sing, Young People!

An Autumn Afternoon

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

Filmography

1964
Sweet Sweat
as Tatsuoka
Brand of Evil
as Takazawa Shigeharu
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Ryosuke Kurumiya
1963
Double Wedding
as Jiro Okuyama
Youth After School
as Ichirô Hasegawa
Escape from Hell
as Yajuro
Sing, Young People!
as Keiji Sada
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
as Koichi
Ballad of a Workman
as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
1961
With Wife, Children, and Friends
as Yonesaku Nihei
Immortal Love
as Takashi
Hunting Rifle
as Reiichiro Kadota
1960
Late Autumn
as Shotaru Goto
Blood Is Dry
as Takashi Kiguchi
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
as Saburo Yaoi
Hot Corner Murder
as Takayama
1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Kageyama Shôi
Akatsuki no chiheisen
as Kazuo
Umi no Chizu
as Tonomura
Good Morning
as Heiichiro Fukui
Farewell to Spring
as Eitarô Makita
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kageyama
People Waiting for Spring
as Western-style painter Nishiwaki
1958
Equinox Flower
as Masahiko Taniguchi
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
as Tsurukawa Matsuo
Hanayome no o noroke
as Denshichi Kumazawa
1957
Danger Stalks Near
as Kaneshige
Times of Joy and Sorrow
as Shiro Arisawa
When It Rains, It Pours
as Kazuo
1956
I Will Buy You
as Daisuke Kishimoto
1955
The Tattered Wings
as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
The Refugee
as Shaochang
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Ryoichi Morita
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
as Tatsuya
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Tamihiko Kujirai
Carmen Comes Home
as Mr. Ogawa
Home Sweet Home
as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Kohei
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Kobotoke Kohei
Here's to the Young Lady
as Goro
1947
Phoenix
as Shinichi Yasaka