Susumu Fujita

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-01-08 (79 years old)

Deathday

1991-03-23

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 role...

Acting

1958

The Hidden Fortress

as General Hyoe Tadokoro

1943

Hot Wind

as Kensuke Shibata

1964

Mothra vs. Godzilla

as Head of JSDF Task Force

1965

Frankenstein Conquers the World

as Osaka Prefectural Police Chief

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Detective

1961

Yojimbo

as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town

1963

High and Low

as Chief of First Investigating Section

1943

Sanshiro Sugata

as Sanshiro Sugata

1963

Atragon

as Defense Commander

1957

The Mysterians

as Gen. Morita

1946

No Regrets for Our Youth

as Ruykichi Noge

1951

Bengawan Solo

as Sergeant Odagiri

1952

Sunset Over Mount Fuji

as Iori Saotome

1947

The Age of Beginnings

as Goro Asahina

1950

Sanshiro of Ginza

as Kumasuke Arai

1945

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

as Sanshiro Sugata

1963

Attack Squadron

as Yamato Commander Ito

1939

Machi

as Youth Officer

1965

Samurai Assassin

as Tatewaki Todo

1965

1970

The Militarists

as Osami Nagano

1953

Tower of Lilies

as Dr. Oka

1954

1942

Currents of Youth

as Murakami, Test Pilot

1971

Return of Ultraman

as Chief Kishida

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment

1981

The Imperial Navy

as Navy Minister Oikawa

1978

Winter's Flower

as Ryokichi Sakata

1946

1964

Dogora

as General Iwasa

1960

Yakuza of Ina

as Boss Daihachi

1939

The Whole Family Works

as Genji's fellow worker

1983

Detective Story

as Gozo Kunizaki

1948

A Flower Blooms

as Teruhiko Kuwai

1944

Battle Troop

as Mikami

1953

The Battleship Yamato

as Jiro Nomura

1951

Akatsuki no Kyūshū

as Chief Takagi

1958

The Spider-Man

as Kogoro Akechi

1945

Duel at Yagyu Valley

as Yagyu Tajima-no-kami

1960

The Gambling Samurai

as Magistrate Jubei Matsui

1963

Young Swordsman

as Kagawa Tanomo

1961

Daredevil in the Castle

as Katsuyasu Sakakibara

1967

Kojiro

as Shogen the Instructor

1966

Rub Out the Past

as Tokutaro Hayami

1950

Snow-Flake

as Mimaki

1968

1959

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi

1949

1962

Operation Sewer Rats

as Lieutenant Masamune

1981

Baian the Assassin

as Hanuemon Otowaya

1941

Story of Leadership

as Shintaro Sagawa

1965

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

as President Shōji (Kansai Department Store)

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