Английская Википедия:Ichiro Sugai
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Шаблон:Nihongo was a Japanese actor and film director[1] who appeared in more than 300 films in his 45 years spanning career,[2][3] working with directors such as Kaneto Shindō, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.[1]
Biography
Sugai was born in Rukahara (now Higashiyama Ward), Kyoto.[1][3] He left junior high school prematurely and entered the Kyoto section of the Nikkatsu film company in 1925.[1] In the 1930s, he first switched to Shinkō Kinema before founding the actors group Dai-ichi kyōdan and becoming a freelance actor in 1939.[1] Notable films of this era include Kenji Mizoguchi's The Water Magician (1933) and The Straits of Love and Hate (1937).[1] After World War II, Sugai became a sought after supporting actor.[1] In addition to numerous films by directors Shindō, Mizoguchi and Yoshimura, he appeared in films by Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai, Shōhei Imamura and Yasujirō Ozu.[2]
Sugai directed two films himself, Dorodarake no seishun (1954) and Furanki no uchūjin (1957).[1][2]
Selected filmography
- The Water Magician (1933)
- The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
- Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
- Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
- The Most Beautiful (1944)
- Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
- Minshū no Teki (1946)
- Aru yo no Tonosama (1946)
- Apostasy (1948)
- Stray Dog (1949)
- Flame of My Love (1949)
- Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)
- Early Summer (1951)
- Avalanche (1952)
- The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Epitome (1953)
- A Geisha (1953)
- Life of a Woman (1953)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- The Crucified Lovers (1954)
- Wolf (1955)
- Shirogane Shinjū (1956)
- Ryūri no Kishi (1956)
- Night Drum (1958)
- Endless Desire (1958)
- Odd Obsession (1959)
- Kenju burai-chō Nukiuchino Ryu (1960)
- Blood Is Dry (1960)
- Black Test Car (1962)
- The Pornographers (1966)
- Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
- The Yoshiwara Story (1968)
- Daimon Otokode Shinitai (1969)
- Chōkōsō no Akebono (1969)
- Heat Wave Island (1969)
- Yakuza's Law: Yakuza Keibatsushi: Rinchi (1969)
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