Susumu Fujita
Birthday: 1912-01-08
Place of Birth: Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
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.
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Hot Wind
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture,...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan t...
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Escapade in Japan
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriend...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Heat and Mud
With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl ...
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Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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Atragon
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a host...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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The Age of Beginnings
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline...
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Eight Views of Samurai
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is as...
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Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
A 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Tsuburaya Productions, consisting of re-edited mate...
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Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...
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Shiosai
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales....
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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A Fugitive from the Past
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash ...
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Green Earth
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation wi...
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Tower of Lilies
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the isla...
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Rira no hana wasureji
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with inves...
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Currents of Youth
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for t...
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Return of Ultraman
Episodes 5 and 6 of Return of Ultraman show, screened at Toho Champion Festival....
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971...
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The Imperial Navy
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year...
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The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashi...
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Dogora
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamond...
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie....
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Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the ...
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Yakuza of Ina
Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventu...
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Kōfuku no genkai
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along ...
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The Whole Family Works
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by...
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Detective Story
A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murde...
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A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her....
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events...
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The Falcon Fighters
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Ka...
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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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The Longest Tunnel
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne...
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Yasen kangofu
In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arriva...
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The Battleship Yamato
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threa...
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Battle Troop
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are go...
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Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and sh...
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplom...
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The Sandal Keeper
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to e...
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Nonki saiban
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...
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Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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Duel at Yagyu Valley
During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend ...
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Street of Ronin
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject ...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
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Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...
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The Burning Sky
The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The f...
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Three Women of the North
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...
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The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to f...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily...
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Challenge to Live
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Blue Jeans Memory
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the w...
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Good Luck Love
Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo....
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Oath on the Burning Sands
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful C...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to ...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Karate Sanshiro
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging hou...
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Baian the Assassin
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous ...
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Story of Leadership
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is cur...
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Living Image
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period....
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Song of the White Orchid
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colon...
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the Americ...
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Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unpa...
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei...
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President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follow...
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日本敗れず
In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines,...
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Trap of Suicide Kilometer
Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materi...
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The Decoy
Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (...
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Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiy...
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