Keiji Sada
Acting • Born 1926-12-09 – Died 1964-08-17
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.
Filmography
88 credits
Late Autumn
Movie • 1960
Shotaru Goto
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Kageyama
Youth After School
Movie • 1963
Ichirô Hasegawa
Equinox Flower
Movie • 1958
Masahiko Taniguchi
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Heiichiro Fukui
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie • 1962
Flower in a Storm
Movie • 1962
A Roaring Trade
Movie • 1962
Secret Love
Movie • 1962
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie • 1962
Koichi
A Japanese Tragedy
Movie • 1953
Tatsuya
Assassination
Movie • 1964
Here's to the Young Lady
Movie • 1949
Goro
Carmen Comes Home
Movie • 1951
Mr. Ogawa
Immortal Love
Movie • 1961
Takashi
I Will Buy You
Movie • 1956
Daisuke Kishimoto
Phoenix
Movie • 1947
Shinichi Yasaka
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie • 1954
Ryoichi Morita
Beautiful Days
Movie • 1955
The Tattered Wings
Movie • 1955
Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
Danger Stalks Near
Movie • 1957
Kaneshige
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Movie • 1949
Kobotoke Kohei
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Movie • 1949
Kohei
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Movie • 1957
Shiro Arisawa
愛情の旋風
Movie • 1951
Home Sweet Home
Movie • 1951
Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
白磁の人
Movie • 1957
俺は死なない
Movie • 1956
When It Rains, It Pours
Movie • 1957
Kazuo
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
Movie • 1952
Freedom School
Movie • 1951
Fountainhead
Movie • 1956
Mama, I Need You!
Movie • 1962
Blood Is Dry
Movie • 1960
Takashi Kiguchi
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Movie • 1951
Shinnosuke Koyanagi
Irohanihoheto
Movie • 1960
Always in My Heart
Movie • 1953
Uzu
Movie • 1961
Always in My Heart Part 2
Movie • 1953
Always in My Heart Part 3
Movie • 1954
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Tamihiko Kujirai
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Movie • 1960
Saburo Yaoi
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Movie • 1959
Kageyama Shôi
Farewell to Spring
Movie • 1959
Eitarô Makita
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Movie • 1961
Yonesaku Nihei
The Portrait
Movie • 1948
Nakajima
Hunting Rifle
Movie • 1961
Reiichiro Kadota
Ballad of a Workman
Movie • 1962
Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
Enraptured
Movie • 1961
Hobo Village
Movie • 1958
Brand of Evil
Movie • 1964
Takazawa Shigeharu
Sing, Young People!
Movie • 1963
Keiji Sada
As the Clouds Scatter
Movie • 1961
The Refugee
Movie • 1955
Shaochang
The Invisible Wall
Movie • 1958
Escape from Hell
Movie • 1963
Yajuro
The Hidden Profile
Movie • 1963
High Teen
Movie • 1959
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie • 1959
Hot Corner Murder
Movie • 1960
Takayama
The Night We Danced
Movie • 1963
Young Miss Executive
Movie • 1953
Sweet Sweat
Movie • 1964
Tatsuoka
Love and Duty
Movie • 1954
Tears
Movie • 1956
A Case of Honor
Movie • 1957
Double Wedding
Movie • 1963
Jiro Okuyama
Yassamossa
Movie • 1953
Doctor's Day Off
Movie • 1952
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie • 1964
Ryosuke Kurumiya
Typhoon
Movie • 1956
The Glorious Days
Movie • 1954
Beauty of Life
Movie • 1951
Umi no Chizu
Movie • 1959
Tonomura
Shūkin ryokō
Movie • 1957
京化粧
Movie • 1961
Monrō no yōna onna
Movie • 1964
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Movie • 1958
Tsurukawa Matsuo
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Movie • 1959
Kazuo
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
Movie • 1949
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
Movie • 1949
Hibi no haishin
Movie • 1958
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
Movie • 1948
最後の切札
Movie • 1960
People Waiting for Spring
Movie • 1959
Western-style painter Nishiwaki
Hanayome no o noroke
Movie • 1958
Denshichi Kumazawa
Seishun no oto
Movie • 1956
Life of a Flower
TV • 1963
Nagano Shuzen