Susumu Fujita

Personal Info

Birthday

January 8, 1912

Day of Death

1991-03-23

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

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.

Known For

Ultraman

Return of Ultraman

High and Low

Yojimbo

The Hidden Fortress

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Baian the Assassin

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Filmography

1983
Detective Story
as Gozo Kunizaki
1981
The Imperial Navy
as Navy Minister Oikawa
Baian the Assassin
as Hanuemon Otowaya
1979
Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
as Chief
1978
Winter's Flower
as Ryokichi Sakata
1971
Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
as Chief Kishida
1970
The Militarists
as Osami Nagano
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
as Uemura
1968
Admiral Yamamoto
as Kurita
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
Kojiro
as Shogen the Instructor
1966
Rub Out the Past
as Tokutaro Hayami
1965
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
The Retreat from Kiska
as Akitani
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
as President Shōji (Kansai Department Store)
A Fugitive from the Past
as Police Chief
Samurai Assassin
as Tatewaki Todo
1964
Dogora
as General Iwasa
Mothra vs. Godzilla
as Head of JSDF Task Force
1963
Atragon
as Defense Commander
Young Swordsman
as Kagawa Tanomo
High and Low
as Chief of First Investigating Section
Attack Squadron
as Yamato Commander Ito
1962
Operation Sewer Rats
as Lieutenant Masamune
1961
Yojimbo
as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
Daredevil in the Castle
as Katsuyasu Sakakibara
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
as Detective
The Gambling Samurai
as Magistrate Jubei Matsui
Yakuza of Ina
as Boss Daihachi
1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Naruto Nitôhei
I Want to Be a Shellfish
as General Yano
1958
The Hidden Fortress
as General Hyoe Tadokoro
The Spider-Man
as Kogoro Akechi
1957
The Mysterians
as Gen. Morita
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
as Kaoru Inoue
1955
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
as Dad
1954
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
as Kingorô Tamai
Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
as Kingorô Tamai
1953
The Battleship Yamato
as Jiro Nomura
Tower of Lilies
as Dr. Oka
1952
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
as Iori Saotome
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
as Togashi
1951
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
as Chief Takagi
Bengawan Solo
as Sergeant Odagiri
1950
Snow-Flake
as Mimaki
Sanshiro of Ginza
as Kumasuke Arai
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
as Ishimatsu
1948
A Flower Blooms
as Teruhiko Kuwai
1947
The Age of Beginnings
as Goro Asahina
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Ruykichi Noge
Those Who Make Tomorrow
as Fujita
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
as Goro Urashima
1945
Duel at Yagyu Valley
as Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Sanshiro Sugata
1944
Battle Troop
as Mikami
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
as Colonel Kato
1943
Hot Wind
as Kensuke Shibata
Sanshiro Sugata
as Sanshiro Sugata
1942
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
as Yamashita
Currents of Youth
as Murakami, Test Pilot
1941
Story of Leadership
as Shintaro Sagawa
1939
Machi
as Youth Officer
The Whole Family Works
as Genji's fellow worker