Kin Sugai

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Biography

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.

Known For

Ikiru

Housewife

High and Low

Female Drug Addict

Godzilla

Ozawa-san

Kwaidan

Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Red Beard

Choji's Mother

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Ozawa-san (uncredited)

The Bad Sleep Well

Tomoko Wada

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Dôro no Hinanmin

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2010	Piecing Me Back Together MOVIE	Old Lady
2010	Haru's Journey MOVIE	Keiko Kanemoto
2010	Ryōmaden TV	Self
2009	Mission To Kill TV	Self
2008	My Grandma MOVIE	Misao Murata
2008	Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen MOVIE	Yukari Godai
2008	Hitomi TV	Yokoyama Ume
2007	Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007 MOVIE	Nakamura Sen
2007	Yellow Tears MOVIE	Yone
2004	The Motive MOVIE	Taeko Katakura
2004	Gekidan Engimono TV	Self
2003	Gozamareji MOVIE	Self
2002	Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' MOVIE	Self
2002	Kewaishi MOVIE	Self
2001	Handoku!!! TV	Self
2000	Trick TV	Self
2000	Watashi no Aozora TV	Tome Hida
1999	One Summer's Day MOVIE	Yuta's grandmother
1999	The Washing Machine MOVIE	Self
1997	Sa-shi-su-se-so!? TV	Self
1996	Sure Death 6 MOVIE	Sen
1995	Deep River MOVIE	Tsukada's wife
1994	Ie Naki Ko MOVIE	Self
1994	Ie Naki Ko TV	Self
1992	The Diary of Chuji's Travels TV	Self
1991	Sure Death 5 MOVIE	Nakamura Sen
1991	Shimanto River MOVIE	Self
1991	Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected MOVIE	Self
1991	Kamigata Kugaizoshi MOVIE	Self
1990	I Like You! MOVIE	Self
1990	Tales of a Golden Geisha MOVIE	Foster Mother
1988	Father MOVIE	Matsu
1988	Vehicle Shadows, Messengers of the Dead MOVIE	Self
1987	Hachiko MOVIE	Self
1987	Sure Death 4 MOVIE	Sen
1986	Sure Death! 3 MOVIE	Sen
1986	Inochi TV	Iwata Teru
1985	Tracked MOVIE	Toyo
1985	Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! MOVIE	Sen
1985	Fire Festival MOVIE	Tatsuo's Mother
1985	A Cornered Apartment Wife MOVIE	Self
1985	国東物語 MOVIE	Self
1985	Joke with a Sorrowful Heart MOVIE	Primary School Teacher
1984	Nezumi Kozō kaitō den MOVIE	Self
1984	The Funeral MOVIE	Kikue Amamiya
1984	Sure Death MOVIE	Sen
1984	Appassionata MOVIE	Self
1981	Willful Murder MOVIE	Self
1981	Flames of Blood MOVIE	Self
1981	The Woman Next Door MOVIE	Self
1979	Gassan MOVIE	Kane
1979	Hissatsu Shigotonin TV	Sen Nakamura
1979	Vengeance Is Mine MOVIE	Defendant's Mother
1977	A Scream from Nowhere MOVIE	Self
1976	Yakuza Graveyard MOVIE	Kimiyo Wakamoto
1975	The Last Song MOVIE	Self
1975	The International Gang of Kobe MOVIE	Chiyo
1974	Sandakan No. 8 MOVIE	Woman came back from Penang
1974	The Castle of Sand MOVIE	Yamashita
1973	The Blossom and the Sword MOVIE	Okin
1973	The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers MOVIE	Self
1973	Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School MOVIE	Kyoko's mother
1973	Flower and Dragon MOVIE	Self
1972	Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers MOVIE	Ohno's Mother
1972	Cross-Currents MOVIE	Self
1972	The Long Darkness MOVIE	Wellwisher on train
1971	Taiyō no Namida TV	Self
1971	The Viper Brothers Rage Again MOVIE	Self
1971	Maboroshi no Satsui MOVIE	Self
1970	Dodes'ka-den MOVIE	Okuni
1970	This Transient Life MOVIE	Mother
1970	City of Beasts MOVIE	Self
1969	The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club MOVIE	Self
1969	Brother TV	Self
1969	Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses MOVIE	Old lady with Shingen bag
1969	Tsugaru zessho MOVIE	Self
1968	The Human Bullet MOVIE	Self
1968	Family of Three TV	Self
1968	High School Geisha MOVIE	Self
1968	The Time of Reckoning MOVIE	Self
1968	I, the Executioner MOVIE	Misa Mori
1968	Two Hearts in the Rain MOVIE	Self
1968	Oyaji Daiko TV	Self
1968	Ryoma ga Yuku TV	Oyabe Baayan
1967	Zoku izuko e MOVIE	Self
1967	Eighteen Years in Prison MOVIE	Self
1966	Lost in the Rain TV	Takahata Chiyo
1966	Nothing But Bones MOVIE	Self
1966	Ohanahan TV	おぎん
1966	The Pornographers MOVIE	Teacher Oda
1965	An Innocent Witch MOVIE	Self
1965	Beast Alley MOVIE	Oseki
1965	The Start of Life MOVIE	Self
1965	Red Beard MOVIE	Choji's Mother
1965	The Soundless Cry MOVIE	Ume Tanabe
1965	Kwaidan MOVIE	Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
1964	Detective MOVIE	Self
1964	Could I But Live MOVIE	Self
1964	Kaze to Ki to Sora to MOVIE	Self
1963	Daybreak Chorus MOVIE	Farmer’s Wife
1963	A Woman's Life MOVIE	Self
1963	Young Swordsman MOVIE	Self
1963	The Sunshine Girl MOVIE	Self
1963	Gone in the Rain MOVIE	Chiyo Takahata
1963	Tokyo Untouchable: Escape MOVIE	Saku, Kirinoe's mother
1963	Violent Street MOVIE	Self
1963	High and Low MOVIE	Female Drug Addict
1963	Modern Children MOVIE	Self
1962	My Hobo MOVIE	Self
1962	The Body MOVIE	Self
1962	A Wanderer's Notebook MOVIE	Self
1962	Ballad of a Workman MOVIE	Mrs. Mochizuki
1962	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen MOVIE	Self
1962	Police Precinct: Landfill No. 19 MOVIE	Self
1962	Foundry Town MOVIE	Miyo
1962	Musume to watashi MOVIE	Self
1962	Haru no sanmyaku MOVIE	Self
1962	The Inheritance MOVIE	Self
1962	The Temple of Wild Geese MOVIE	Kan Horinouchi
1961	Run, Genta, Run! MOVIE	Self
1961	Kusa wo karu musume MOVIE	Self
1961	Police Precinct Part 17 MOVIE	Ume Shinohara
1961	Police Precinct Part 17 MOVIE	Self
1961	Girls of the Night MOVIE	Self
1961	Sir Galahad in Campus MOVIE	Self
1961	Koi no gashū MOVIE	Self
1961	Eternity of Love MOVIE	Self
1961	Futaridake no taiyō MOVIE	Self
1961	Hidden Fangs MOVIE	Self
1961	Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman MOVIE	Self
1961	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer MOVIE	Dôro no Hinanmin
1961	Pigs and Battleships MOVIE	Haruko's Mother
1960	The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night MOVIE	Self
1960	The Approach of Autumn MOVIE	The Aunt
1960	The Bad Sleep Well MOVIE	Tomoko Wada
1960	University Bandits MOVIE	Self
1960	Police Precinct Part 14 MOVIE	Self
1960	White Cliffs MOVIE	Self
1960	The Lost Alibi MOVIE	Misae Sugiyama
1960	The Forbidden Scoop MOVIE	Self
1960	Police Precinct Part 12 MOVIE	Self
1960	Black Flower Petal MOVIE	Kura Sugiyama (Shinji’s Mother)
1960	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs MOVIE	Katsuko
1960	Spring Dreams MOVIE	Tetsu
1959	Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face MOVIE	Self
1958	The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow MOVIE	Osumi
1958	The Child Writers MOVIE	Toki Kawahara
1958	Police Precinct Part 7 MOVIE	Self
1958	Stolen Desire MOVIE	Osen Yamamura
1958	Stakeout MOVIE	Mrs. Shimooka
1957	Black River MOVIE	Self
1957	Hadaka no Machi MOVIE	Self
1957	A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era MOVIE	Okuma
1957	A Case of Honor MOVIE	Self
1956	Godzilla, King of the Monsters! MOVIE	Ozawa-san (uncredited)
1955	The Wolves MOVIE	Self
1955	Burden of Love MOVIE	Congresswoman Natsuko Kamioka
1954	Godzilla MOVIE	Ozawa-san
1953	Yassamossa MOVIE	Self
1952	Ikiru MOVIE	Housewife
	Donden Family (Pretend Divorce) MOVIE	Self
	山椿 MOVIE	Self

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