Susumu Fujita
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-01-08
Day of Death
1991-03-23 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
Susumu Fujita
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1983)
Detective Story
as Gozo Kunizaki
(1982)
(1981)
The Imperial Navy
as Navy Minister Oikawa
(1981)
Baian the Assassin
as Hanuemon Otowaya
(1981)
(1981)
(1979)
(1978)
Winter's Flower
as Ryokichi Sakata
(1977)
(1975)
(1972)
(1971)
(1971)
Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
as Chief Kishida
(1971)
(1971)
Return of Ultraman
as Chief Kishida
(1971)
(1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
(1970)
The Militarists
as Osami Nagano
(1970)
(1969)
Battle of the Japan Sea
as Uemura
(1969)
(1968)
Admiral Yamamoto
as Kurita
(1968)
(1967)
Japan's Longest Day
as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
(1967)
Kojiro
as Shogen the Instructor
(1966)
Rub Out the Past
as Tokutaro Hayami
(1966)
(1966)
(1965)
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
(1965)
A Fugitive from the Past
as Police Chief
(1965)
The Retreat from Kiska
as Akitani
(1965)
Samurai Assassin
as Tatewaki Todo
(1965)
(1964)
Mothra vs. Godzilla
as Head of JSDF Task Force
(1964)
Dogora
as General Iwasa
(1964)
(1963)
High and Low
as Chief of First Investigating Section
(1963)
Atragon
as Defense Commander
(1963)
Attack Squadron
as Yamato Commander Ito
(1963)
(1963)
Young Swordsman
as Kagawa Tanomo
(1962)
(1962)
Operation Sewer Rats
as Lieutenant Masamune
(1962)
(1961)
Yojimbo
as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
(1961)
Daredevil in the Castle
as Katsuyasu Sakakibara
(1961)
(1960)
The Bad Sleep Well
as Detective
(1960)
(1960)
Yakuza of Ina
as Boss Daihachi
(1960)
The Gambling Samurai
as Magistrate Jubei Matsui
(1959)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Naruto Nitôhei
(1959)
(1959)
I Want to Be a Shellfish
as General Yano
(1959)
(1958)
The Hidden Fortress
as General Hyoe Tadokoro
(1958)
(1958)
The Spider-Man
as Kogoro Akechi
(1958)
(1957)
The Mysterians
as Gen. Morita
(1957)
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
as Kaoru Inoue
(1957)
(1957)
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
(1955)
(1955)
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
as Dad
(1954)
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
as Kingorô Tamai
(1954)
(1954)
Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
as Kingorô Tamai
(1954)
(1953)
Tower of Lilies
as Dr. Oka
(1953)
The Battleship Yamato
as Jiro Nomura
(1953)
(1952)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
as Togashi
(1952)
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
as Iori Saotome
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
as Chief Takagi
(1951)
Bengawan Solo
as Sergeant Odagiri
(1951)
(1951)
(1950)
Snow-Flake
as Mimaki
(1950)
(1950)
(1950)
Sanshiro of Ginza
as Kumasuke Arai
(1949)
Ishimatsu of the Forest
as Ishimatsu
(1949)
(1949)
(1948)
(1948)
(1948)
A Flower Blooms
as Teruhiko Kuwai
(1947)
(1947)
(1947)
The Age of Beginnings
as Goro Asahina
(1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Ruykichi Noge
(1946)
Those Who Make Tomorrow
as Fujita
(1946)
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
as Goro Urashima
(1946)
(1946)
(1945)
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Sanshiro Sugata
(1945)
Duel at Yagyu Valley
as Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
(1945)
(1945)
(1944)
Battle Troop
as Mikami
(1944)
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
as Colonel Kato
(1944)
(1943)
Sanshiro Sugata
as Sanshiro Sugata
(1943)
Hot Wind
as Kensuke Shibata
(1942)
Currents of Youth
as Murakami, Test Pilot
(1942)
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
as Yamashita
(1942)
(1942)
(1941)
Story of Leadership
as Shintaro Sagawa
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1939)
The Whole Family Works
as Genji's fellow worker
(1939)
(1939)
Machi
as Youth Officer