Keiji Sada
Birthday: 1926-12-09
Place of Birth: Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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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Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Youth After School
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develo...
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Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
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Secret Love
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Jap...
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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Assassination
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
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Here's to the Young Lady
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an au...
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Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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Immortal Love
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. T...
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I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c...
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Beautiful Days
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists....
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The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal...
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Danger Stalks Near
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house the...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have be...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, ...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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Home Sweet Home
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded priz...
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When It Rains, It Pours
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When h...
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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a ...
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Freedom School
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surpri...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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Mama, I Need You!
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone ...
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Blood Is Dry
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive ...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...
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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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Always in My Heart Part 3
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again,...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
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Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they ...
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto....
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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Farewell to Spring
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as st...
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes ...
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The Portrait
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artis...
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Hunting Rifle
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who ...
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Ballad of a Workman
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work...
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Enraptured
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a...
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Brand of Evil
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is par...
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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As the Clouds Scatter
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once ...
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The Refugee
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying...
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Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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High Teen
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his...
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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Hot Corner Murder
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game....
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Young Miss Executive
A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddau...
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Sweet Sweat
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 3...
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Love and Duty
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels ...
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A Case of Honor
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic ...
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Doctor's Day Off
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off....
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s...
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Typhoon
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been...
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Umi no Chizu
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team a...
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....
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Akatsuki no chiheisen
This action drama depicts the conflict between orthodox and new yakuza gangsters....
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hi...
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hi...
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Hibi no haishin
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T...
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hi...
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People Waiting for Spring
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...
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Hanayome no o noroke
A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Brid...
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