Keiji Sada
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 9 December 1926 · Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- 17 August 1964
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.
Known for
Acting 99
- 1964Sweet Sweat as Tatsuoka
- 1964Assassination
- 1964Brand of Evil as Takazawa Shigeharu
- 1964To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 as Ryosuke Kurumiya
- 1964Monrō no yōna onna
- 1963The Night We Danced
- 1963Dobuike as Sadahiko Kanemitsu
- 1963Double Wedding as Jiro Okuyama
- 1963The House Where Flowers Bloom
- 1963Youth After School as Ichirô Hasegawa
- 1963The Hidden Profile
- 1963Escape from Hell as Yajuro
- 1963Sing, Young People! as Keiji Sada
- 1962An Autumn Afternoon as Koichi
- 1962Zoku aizen katsura
- 1962Mama, I Need You!
- 1962Ballad of a Workman as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
- 1962Secret Love
- 1962Flower in a Storm
- 1962A Roaring Trade
- 1961京化粧
- 1961With Wife, Children, and Friends as Yonesaku Nihei
- 1961Immortal Love as Takashi
- 1961As the Clouds Scatter as Yoshimi Misaki
- 1961Enraptured
- 1961Aoi kairyū
- 1961The Human Condition as Kageyama Shôi
- 1961Uzu
- 1961Hunting Rifle as Reiichiro Kadota
- 1960Late Autumn as Shotaru Goto
- 1960Blood Is Dry as Takashi Kiguchi
- 1960The Last Trump Card as Shunsuke Tatsuno
- 1960A Woman’s Uphill Slope as Saburo Yaoi
- 1960Irohanihoheto
- 1960Hot Corner Murder as Takayama
- 1960Shu no kafun as 武中究二
- 1959The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity as Kageyama Shôi
- 1959Tokyo Omnibus
- 1959Akatsuki no chiheisen as Kazuo
- 1959Umi no Chizu as Tonomura
- 1959High Teen
- 1959Good Morning as Heiichiro Fukui
- 1959Farewell to Spring as Eitarô Makita
- 1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Kageyama
- 1959People Waiting for Spring as Western-style painter Nishiwaki
- 1958The Invisible Wall
- 1958Equinox Flower as Masahiko Taniguchi
- 1958Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi as Tsurukawa Matsuo
- 1958Whirlpool of Flowers
- 1958Hibi no haishin
- 1958Hobo Village
- 1958Hanayome no o noroke as Denshichi Kumazawa
- 1957Danger Stalks Near as Kaneshige
- 1957Shūkin ryokō
- 1957Times of Joy and Sorrow as Shiro Arisawa
- 1957Monkey Business as Yoshizawa, Diet member
- 1957When It Rains, It Pours as Kazuo
- 1957A Case of Honor
- 1957Hakuji no hito as Goto
- 1956Typhoon Furor
- 1956I Will Buy You as Daisuke Kishimoto
- 1956Tears
- 1956Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress
- 1956俺は死なない
- 1956Seishun no oto
- 1956Fountainhead
- 1955Every Day That New Life
- 1955Bride in the Kitchen
- 1955The Tattered Wings as Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
- 1955Beautiful Days as Nakao
- 1955The Refugee as Shaochang
- 1954Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky as Ryoichi Morita
- 1954新婚たくあん夫婦 as 目白三平
- 1954Always in My Heart Part 3
- 1954The Glorious Days
- 1954Love and Duty
- 1953Young Miss Executive
- 1953Always in My Heart Part 2
- 1953Always in My Heart
- 1953A Japanese Tragedy as Tatsuya
- 1953Yassamossa
- 1952Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
- 1952Doctor's Day Off
- 1951Beauty of Life
- 1951Fireworks Over the Sea as Tamihiko Kujirai
- 1951An Angel Dreams Too
- 1951Freedom School
- 1951Home Sweet Home as Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
- 1951Carmen Comes Home as Mr. Ogawa
- 1951愛情の旋風
- 1951The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Shinnosuke Koyanagi
- 1949Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
- 1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Kohei
- 1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Kobotoke Kohei
- 1949Here's to the Young Lady as Goro
- 1949Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
- 1948Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
- 1948The Portrait as Nakajima
- 1947Phoenix as Shinichi Yasaka