Kei Satō
Acting • Born 1928-12-21 – Died 2010-05-02
Biography
Kei Satō (佐藤 慶, Satō Kei; born December 21, 1928 in Aizuwakamatsu – May 2, 2010) was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and for several films with Kaneto Shindo, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no akuryō. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film.
Filmography
208 credits
Onibaba
Movie • 1964
Hachi
Kwaidan
Movie • 1965
Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Zatoichi's Vengeance
Movie • 1966
Boss Gonzo
The Night of Martial Law
Movie • 1980
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Movie • 1959
Shinjô Ittôhei
Kuroneko
Movie • 1968
Raiko
Epitaph to My Love
Movie • 1961
Shinji Tsuda
Violence at Noon
Movie • 1966
Eisuke Oyamada
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Movie • 1977
Sekino
Eleven Samurai
Movie • 1967
Secretary Mizumo
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Movie • 1979
Shimizu
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie • 1962
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Movie • 2009
Kazutaka Okada
Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
Movie • 1997
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Movie • 1973
Shobei Hamajima
Godzilla 1985
Movie • 1985
Gondo
Samurai Spy
Movie • 1965
Takanosuke Nojiri
Women and Miso Soup
Movie • 1968
Okashina yatsu
Movie • 1963
Shamoji
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Movie • 1967
Otoko
The Perfect Education
Movie • 1999
Lawyer
Blackmail
Movie • 1963
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Movie • 1985
Nakajima
The Sword of Doom
Movie • 1966
Kamo Serizawa
Pleasures of the Flesh
Movie • 1965
Police inspector
Pitfall
Movie • 1962
Reporter
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Movie • 1973
Magistrate
Akizakura - Cosmos
Movie • 1991
Evil Spirits of Japan
Movie • 1970
Murase / Ochiai
The Ceremony
Movie • 1971
Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Movie • 1979
Dr. Ichikawa
The Ninja Hunt
Movie • 1964
Sword Devil
Movie • 1965
Secretery Kanbe
Inn of Evil
Movie • 1971
Yohei
Cruel Story of Youth
Movie • 1960
Akira Matsuko
Death by Hanging
Movie • 1968
Prison warden
Human
Movie • 1962
Hachizo
The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
Movie • 1983
Police Inspector
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Movie • 1969
Himself
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Movie • 1983
Police Chief
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Movie • 1968
Y Chong - iru
Band of Ninja
Movie • 1967
Sakagami Shuzen
Ronin-gai
Movie • 1990
Iseya
Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
Movie • 1993
Station
Movie • 1981
Devil's Temple
Movie • 1969
Priest
Secret High School Girl: After School Activity
Movie • 1973
Lost Love
Movie • 1978
Nogami
Day Dream
Movie • 1981
Dentist
The White Tiger Battalion
Movie • 1986
Hymn to a Tired Man
Movie • 1968
Takenori Suzuki
Golden Partners
Movie • 1979
Ohkawa
Life of Hishakaku 3
Movie • 1964
My Way
Movie • 1974
Koide, Chief of Police
Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Movie • 1962
Taboo
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Azumi
Movie • 2003
Tenkai Nankôbô
Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
Movie • 1979
Gorô Onodera , Military Commentator
Homicide
Movie • 1964
Asaichi Isobe
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Movie • 1995
Women of Tokyo
Movie • 1961
Tamio Yamada
Your Life
Movie • 1966
A Story from Echigo
Movie • 1964
Where did Sharaku go?
Movie • 1968
Tōshūsai Sharaku
The Curse of the Ghost
Movie • 1969
Iyemon
Irezumi
Movie • 1966
Hatamoto Serizawa
Erotic Liaisons
Movie • 1992
Nemoto
Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again
Movie • 1965
The Whispering of the Gods
Movie • 2005
Father Togawa
The River - Poem of Wrath
Movie • 1967
Doctor
The Killing Game
Movie • 1978
Shoichi Katsuda
Captive's Island
Movie • 1966
Night and Fog in Japan
Movie • 1960
Sakamaki
Harakiri
Movie • 1962
Masakazu
The Sun's Burial
Movie • 1960
Sakaguchi
They Were Eleven
Movie • 1977
Dear Summer Sister
Movie • 1972
Shinkô Kuniyoshi
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Movie • 1970
A Diary of a Woman Doctor
Movie • 1973
Conflagration
Movie • 1975
Director Fukami
Roadside Stone
Movie • 1964
Shogo
The Inheritance
Movie • 1962
Cop
Choji Snack Bar
Movie • 1983
Yoshino
Dead Angle
Movie • 1979
The Notorious Bored Samurai
Movie • 1988
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Movie • 1965
The Skies of Haruo
Movie • 1977
The Third Ninja
Movie • 1964
Appassionata
Movie • 1984
The Paper Crane
Movie • 1962
Tokyo Trial
Movie • 1983
Narrator
Glorious Fights
Movie • 1966
Yuzo Gondo
The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
Movie • 1962
The Return of Godzilla
Movie • 1984
Chief Editor Gondo
High Seas Hijack
Movie • 1977
T.V. Director Fukami
Shingo's Ten Duels
Movie • 1990
Inoue Kawachi-no-kami
Surgical Designs in Flames
Movie • 1986
Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
Movie • 1963
Duel of Blood and Sand
Movie • 1963
Katsumaki
Yakuza Ladies
Movie • 1986
Hitoshi Awazu
Dioxin from Fish!
Movie • 1992
Genjiro
The Execution Game
Movie • 1979
Volunteering for Villainy
Movie • 1960
Iwai
Target
Movie • 1980
Ichiro Hamada
The Hopi Prophecy
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Tokyo Bay
Movie • 1962
Takeyama
Yakuza Graveyard
Movie • 1976
Teramitsu Abara
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Movie • 1973
tyobei(Izuya)
Mother
Movie • 1963
Dr. Koiguchi
Chase That Man
Movie • 1972
Assignment Cloud
Movie • 1966
Nishida
Sasuke and His Comedians
Movie • 1963
Gang Warfare
Movie • 1972
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Movie • 1963
Saburobei Konoe
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Otaguro
Drunkard's Paradise
Movie • 1962
Incidental Murders
Movie • 1961
Ieraishan Tatsu
The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
Movie • 1963
Shimane Prison Riot
Movie • 1975
Prison Guard
Kachô Shima Kôsaku
Movie • 1992
Kyoto Assassin
Movie • 1962
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Movie • 1978
Sekino
The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting
Movie • 1994
Cross-Currents
Movie • 1972
League of Gangsters
Movie • 1963
Takamoto
The Christian Revolt
Movie • 1962
Demon Spies
Movie • 1974
The Beast to Die
Movie • 1980
Endo
Young Boss
Movie • 1965
Izo
A Japanese Demon
Movie • 1973
Psychiartist
Good-for-Nothing
Movie • 1960
Dear My Love
Movie • 2009
Flower and Dragon
Movie • 1973
The Revolt
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice)
Song of my Life
Movie • 1968
Masanobu Kurosawa
Let Him Rest in Peace
Movie • 1985
Daishi Shimoyama
Business Trip
Movie • 1989
(voice)
The Imperial Navy
Movie • 1981
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Movie • 1961
Last Friends
Movie • 1995
Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Movie • 1968
The Flower and the Dragon
Movie • 1965
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Movie • 1965
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Movie • 1987
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Movie • 1992
Detective
Naked Ambition
Movie • 1970
Green Requiem
Movie • 1988
Expelled from the Kanto Mob
Movie • 1971
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Movie • 1964
Kinjiro Takeuchi
Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
Movie • 1966
Clouds at Sunset
Movie • 1967
Lone Rebel
Movie • 1969
Sensen fukoku
Movie • 2002
Bullet Wound
Movie • 1969
The Tattooed Hitman
Movie • 1974
Yukio Yamaji
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
Movie • 1963
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Movie • 1963
Festival of Dreams
Movie • 1989
Knock Down
Movie • 1960
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Movie • 1993
The Great Villains
Movie • 1968
Ichiro Yasui
Neo Faust
Movie • 1999
Dr. Faust
A Man Worth the Money
Movie • 1966
Empire of Passion
Movie • 1978
Orator
Detective Heiji
Movie • 1990
The Tattooed Lord
Movie • 1965
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Movie • 1977
I Love You So Much
Movie • 1988
Nezumi Kozo's Edo Adventure
Movie • 1988
Brand of Evil
Movie • 1964
Eguchi
Procurer of Hell
Movie • 1961
A Killer's Key
Movie • 1967
At the Side of the Bridge 4
Movie • 1963
白い南風
Movie • 1961
Challenge at Dawn
Movie • 1971
The Fir Tree Remains
Movie • 1990
Onibaba : Film Location
Movie • 1964
Violent Street
Movie • 1963
Kusa Moeru
TV • 1979
Hiki Yoshikazu
Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
TV • 2000
Mashita Nagamori
Taikouki
TV • 1965
Akechi Mitsuhide
Precious Moments
TV • 1981
Professional Killers
TV • 1972
The Water Margin
TV • 1973
Kao Chiu
Honmamon
TV • 2001
Sadamichi Yamanaka (Konoha's grandfather)
The Trading Company
TV • 1980
Shigeru Yasuda
Rice Curry
TV • 1986
Jūkyūsai
TV • 1989
水曜ドラマスペシャル
TV • 1984
Kokugo Gannen
TV • 1985
Chotchan
TV • 1987
北山俊道
稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ
TV • 2004
Sabee Inugami
Pro Hunter
TV • 1981
Concerto
TV • 1996
Ningen no Shōmei
TV • 1978
Nemuri Kyoshiro
TV • 1982
Graduation
TV • 1990
Wave in Mind
TV • 1995
Fateful Mountain Pass
TV • 1974
Asahina Genzaemon
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
TV • 2003
Yasei no Shōmei
TV • 1979
Byakkotai
TV • 1986
Tanaka Tosa
Lone Wolf and Cub
TV • 1973
Retsudo Yagyu
The Autumn in Tokyo
TV • 1985
Star of the Night
TV • 1968
The Dawn of Asia
TV • 1964
Li Lie-jun
Tabaruzaka
TV • 1987
Iwakura Tomomi
Prayer Beads
TV • 2004