Susumu Fujita
January 8, 1912 (112 years old) in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
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.
Known For
Credits
- 1983 · Detective Story as Gozo Kunizaki
- 1982 · The Longest Tunnel as
- 1981 · Good Luck Love as
- 1981 · The Imperial Navy as Navy Minister Oikawa
- 1981 · Blue Jeans Memory as
- 1981 · Baian the Assassin as Hanuemon Otowaya
- 1979 · Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle as Chief
- 1978 · Winter's Flower as Ryokichi Sakata
- 1975 · The Gate of Youth as
- 1972 · Lullaby for a Tough Guy as
- 1971 · New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter as
- 1971 · Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters as Chief Kishida
- 1971 · Shiosai as
- 1971 · New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape as
- 1971 · Return of Ultraman as Chief Kishida
- 1971 · Return of Ultraman as Fumio Kishida
- 1970 · The Militarists as Osami Nagano
- 1970 · A Young Man's Stronghold as
- 1970 · Tora! Tora! Tora! as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
- 1969 · The Falcon Fighters as
- 1969 · Battle of the Japan Sea as Uemura
- 1968 · Admiral Yamamoto as Kurita
- 1968 · 風来忍法帖 八方破れ as
- 1967 · Japan's Longest Day as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
- 1967 · Kojiro as Shogen the Instructor
- 1966 · Rampaging Dragon of the North as
- 1966 · Rub Out the Past as Tokutaro Hayami
- 1966 · Ultraman as Chief of Staff of the Defense Force
- 1966 · Zero Fighter as
- 1965 · Frankenstein Conquers the World as Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
- 1965 · The Retreat from Kiska as Akitani
- 1965 · 風来忍法帖 as
- 1965 · A Fugitive from the Past as Police Chief
- 1965 · Samurai Assassin as Tatewaki Todo
- 1964 · ホラ吹き太閤記 as
- 1964 · Dogora as General Iwasa
- 1964 · Mothra vs. Godzilla as Head of JSDF Task Force
- 1963 · Atragon as Defense Commander
- 1963 · Young Swordsman as Kagawa Tanomo
- 1963 · Siege of Fort Bismarck as
- 1963 · High and Low as Chief of First Investigating Section
- 1963 · Attack Squadron as Yamato Commander Ito
- 1962 · 47 Ronin as
- 1962 · Mount Hakone as
- 1962 · Operation Sewer Rats as Lieutenant Masamune
- 1961 · Challenge to Live as
- 1961 · Yojimbo as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
- 1961 · Daredevil in the Castle as Katsuyasu Sakakibara
- 1960 · The Bad Sleep Well as Detective
- 1960 · The Storm of the Pacific as
- 1960 · The Gambling Samurai as Magistrate Jubei Matsui
- 1960 · Yakuza of Ina as Boss Daihachi
- 1959 · The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity as Naruto Nitôhei
- 1959 · Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender as
- 1959 · The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung as
- 1959 · I Want to Be a Shellfish as General Yano
- 1958 · The Hidden Fortress as General Hyoe Tadokoro
- 1958 · The Spider-Man as Kogoro Akechi
- 1958 · Eight Views of Samurai as
- 1958 · Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War as
- 1957 · The Mysterians as Gen. Morita
- 1957 · Escapade in Japan as
- 1957 · Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War as Kaoru Inoue
- 1957 · Street of Ronin as
- 1956 · 勤王？ 佐幕？ 女人曼陀羅 as
- 1956 · Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets as
- 1956 · 銀蛇の岩屋 as
- 1956 · Kingoro's Soldier as
- 1955 · Nobuko Rides on a Cloud as Dad
- 1955 · Nonki saiban as
- 1954 · Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced as
- 1954 · Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten as Kingorô Tamai
- 1954 · Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô as Kingorô Tamai
- 1954 · Hanran as
- 1953 · Yasen kangofu as
- 1953 · The Battleship Yamato as Jiro Nomura
- 1953 · Tower of Lilies as Dr. Oka
- 1952 · Sunset Over Mount Fuji as Iori Saotome
- 1952 · The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail as Togashi
- 1951 · Karate Sanshiro as
- 1951 · Akatsuki no Kyūshū as Chief Takagi
- 1951 · Sekidô matsuri as
- 1951 · Bengawan Solo as Sergeant Odagiri
- 1951 · 新遊侠伝 遊侠往来 as
- 1951 · 新遊侠伝 as
- 1950 · Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi as
- 1950 · Snow-Flake as Mimaki
- 1950 · Heat and Mud as
- 1950 · Sanshiro of Ginza as Kumasuke Arai
- 1949 · Ishimatsu of the Forest as Ishimatsu
- 1949 · Kirare no Senta as
- 1949 · 白頭巾現わる as
- 1948 · Kōfuku no genkai as
- 1948 · Living Image as
- 1948 · A Flower Blooms as Teruhiko Kuwai
- 1947 · Rira no hana wasureji as
- 1947 · The Age of Beginnings as Goro Asahina
- 1947 · A Thousand and One Nights with Toho as
- 1946 · No Regrets for Our Youth as Ruykichi Noge
- 1946 · Lord for a Night as
- 1946 · Those Who Make Tomorrow as Fujita
- 1946 · An Enemy of the People as
- 1946 · A Descendant of Urashima Taro as Goro Urashima
- 1945 · Three Women of the North as
- 1945 · Duel at Yagyu Valley as Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
- 1945 · Sanshiro Sugata Part Two as Sanshiro Sugata
- 1945 · Kanchō umi no bara as
- 1944 · Battle Troop as Mikami
- 1944 · Nichijô no tatakai as
- 1944 · Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron as Colonel Kato
- 1943 · Hot Wind as Kensuke Shibata
- 1943 · Sanshiro Sugata as Sanshiro Sugata
- 1942 · The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya as Yamashita
- 1942 · Mother Never Dies as
- 1942 · Green Earth as
- 1942 · Currents of Youth as Murakami, Test Pilot
- 1941 · Story of Leadership as Shintaro Sagawa
- 1940 · Oath on the Burning Sands as
- 1940 · Okumura Ioka as
- 1940 · Navy Bomb Squadron as
- 1940 · The Burning Sky as
- 1939 · Song of the White Orchid as
- 1939 · Machi as Youth Officer
- 1939 · The Whole Family Works as Genji's fellow worker