
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.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
The titles people know Keiji from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Tatsuoka

as Takazawa Shigeharu

as Ryosuke Kurumiya



as Sadahiko Kanemitsu

as Jiro Okuyama
as Kageyama Shôi


as Kazuo

as Tonomura

as Heiichiro Fukui

as Eitarô Makita
as Kageyama

as Kohei
as Kobotoke Kohei
as Goro



as Nakajima

as Shinichi Yasaka
The people who keep turning up in Keiji’s titles.







