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Kin Sugai

Name in Native Language: "菅井きん" (Japanese/JA)
Actress | * 02/28/1926 († 92, 08/10/2018) | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture (Japan)
Kin Sugai (菅井きん, Sugai Kin) (28 February 1926 – 10 August 2018) was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for The Funeral. Sugai is famous for her role as Sen Nakamura in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 8th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in The Funeral. In 2008, she landed lead role for the first time in the Hideo Sakai film ぼくのおばあちゃん (Hepburn: Boku no Obaachan) at the age of 82, and was certified as Guinness as "the world's oldest movie starring actress". ()
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Kin Sugai (菅井きん Sugai Kin) (28 February 1926 – 10 August 2018) was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for The Funeral. Sugai is famous for her role in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Comedies

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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life. ...

Ikiru

Certification unknown

1952 | 4.2/5 | 2h 23min
Drama
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A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom. ...

High and Low

Certification unknown

1963 | 4.2/5 | 2h 22min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 ...

Godzilla

NR

1954 | 3.8/5 | 1h 36min
Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
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When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home. ...

The Funeral

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1984 | 3.7/5 | 2h 4min
Comedy, Drama
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Movies with Kin Sugai as Actress(97)

as Keiko Kanemoto2010 Haru's Journey
as Old lady2010 Piecing Me Back Together
as Misao Murata2008 My Grandma
2008 Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
as Yone2007 Yellow Tears
as Taeko Katakura2004 The Motive
2002 Kewaishi
1999 The Washing Machine
as Yuta's grandmother1999 One Summer's Day
as Sen1996 Sure Death 6
as Tsukada's wife1995 Deep River
1994 Child Without a Home
1991 Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
1991 Shimanto River
1991 Kamigata Kugaizoshi
as Nakamura Sen1991 Sure Death 5
1990 I Like You!
1990 Tales of a Golden Geisha
as Matsu1988 Father
as Sen1987 Sure Death 4
as Sen1986 Sure Death! 3
as Toyo1985 Tracked
1985 Joke with a Sorrowful Heart
as Tatsuo's Mother1985 Fire Festival
as Sen1985 Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
1984 Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
as Kikue Amamiya1984 The Funeral
1984 Appassionata
as Sen1984 Sure Death
1981 Flames of Blood
1981 Willful Murder
as Kane1979 Gassan
1979 Vengeance Is Mine
1977 A Scream from Nowhere
as Kimiyo Wakamoto1976 Yakuza Graveyard
1975 The Last Song
as Chiyo1975 The International Gang of Kobe
as Yamashita1974 The Castle of Sand
1973 Flower and Dragon
as Okin1973 The Blossom and the Sword
as Kyoko's mother1973 Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1973 The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
1972 Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972 Cross-Currents
1971 幻の殺意
1971 The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1970 City of Beasts
as Mother1970 This Transient Life
as Okuni1970 Dodes'ka-den
1969 The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as Old lady with Shingen bag1969 Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
as Mori Misa1968 I, the Executioner
1968 The Time of Reckoning
1967 Eighteen Years in Prison
1966 The Pornographers
1966 Nothing But Bones
as Oseki1965 Beast Alley
as Ume Tanabe1965 The Soundless Cry
1965 An Innocent Witch
as Choji's Mother1965 Red Beard
1965 The Start of Life
1964 Could I But Live
as Village woman (segment "Yuki-Onna") (uncredited)1964 Kwaidan
1963 A Woman's Life
as Chiyo Takahata1963 Gone in the Rain
1963 The Sunshine Girl
as Saku, Kirinoe's mother1963 Tokyo aantachibiru: dasso
1963 Modern Children
as Female Drug Addict1963 High and Low
as Mrs. Mochizuki1962 Ballad of a Workman
1962 The Inheritance
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
as Kan Horinouchi1962 The Temple of Wild Geese
as Miyo1962 Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
as Dôro no Hinanmin1961 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 Run, Genta, Run!
1961 Girls of the Night
as Ume Shinohara1961 Police Precinct Part 17
as Haruko's mother1961 Pigs and Battleships
1961 Sir Galahad in Campus
as Tomoko Wada1960 The Bad Sleep Well
1960 The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Misae Sugiyama1960 The Lost Alibi
as The Aunt1960 The Approach of Autumn
as Tetsu1960 Spring Dreams
as Mrs. Shimooka1958 Stakeout
as Toki Kawahara1958 The Child Writers
as Osumi1958 The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Osen Yamamura1958 Stolen Desire
as (uncredited)1957 Black River
as Okuma1957 A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Ozawa-san (uncredited)1956 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
as Congresswoman Natsuko Kamioka1955 Burden of Love
as Ozawa-san1954 Godzilla
as Панпан1953 Yassamossa
as Housewife1952 Ikiru

TV Shows/Series with Kin Sugai as Actress(10)

2010 Ryōmaden
as Yokoyama Ume2008 Hitomi
2001 Handoku!!!
2000 Trick
as Tome Hida2000 Watashi no Aozora
as Iwata Teru1986 Inochi
as Sen Nakamura1979 Hissatsu Shigotonin
as Oyabe Baayan1968 Ryoma ga Yuku
as おぎん1966 Ohanahan
as Takahata Chiyo1966 Lost in the Rain

Full Name: Kin Sugai
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Sunday, 02/28 1926 (February) in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture (Japan)
Died: Friday, 08/10 2018 (August) in Tokyo (aged: 92)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Spouses (current/former): Masayuki Satō
Other names for Kin Sugai (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"菅井きん"
"Кин Сугай"
"Кин Сугаи"
"すがい きん" (Kana/Japanese)
Kin Sugai frequently works together with these people:
Akira Kurosawa (17x, Crew)
Tai Katô (12x, Crew)
Kamatari Fujiwara (12x, Actor)
Masaru Satō (11x, Crew)
Eijirō Tōno (10x, Actor)
Masao Oda (10x, Actor)
Kunie Tanaka (10x, Actor)
Kō Nishimura (10x, Actor)
Taiji Tonoyama (10x, Actor)
Shôhei Imamura (10x, Crew)
Tatsuya Nakadai (9x, Actor)
Kanako Fukaura (2x, Actress)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:613610, Added: 10/18/2018, Last updated: 04/25/2024