Kin Sugai
Acting
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.
Born: February 28, 1926
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
Hissatsu Shigotonin
Nakamura Mondo was relegated to a post in Hachioji from the Minamimachi Bugyōsho and he has retired from professional assassin. But one day he was ordered to return to the Minamimachi Bugyōsho. Shikazō worked behind the scenes to get Mondo back to the Minamimachi Bugyōsho. Shikazō asks Nakamura Mondo to kill a man, once Mondo refuses but he is blinded by big money and eventually take the offer. Mondo restarts killing villains again with Kazarishokunin no Hide and Nawate Samon.
Ryōmaden
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
Oyaji Daiko
The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first generation, but he is a one-man family. His wife, Aiko, is a typical good wife and wise mother type. Kamejiro gets angry and thunders down every week, and the children are afraid of him, calling him "Oyaji Daiko", but he also takes advantage of this.
Eighteen Years in Prison
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Ikiru
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.
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
The Soundless Cry
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
Filmography
as Old Lady
as Keiko Kanemoto
as Misao Murata
as Yokoyama Ume
as Nakamura Sen
as Yone
as Taeko Katakura
as Tome Hida
as Yuta's grandmother
as Sen
as Tsukada's wife
as Nakamura Sen
as Foster Mother
as Matsu
as Sen
as Sen
as Iwata Teru
as Toyo
as Tatsuo's Mother
as Primary School Teacher
as Kikue Amamiya
as Sen
as Kane
as Sen Nakamura
as Defendant's Mother
as Kimiyo Wakamoto
as Chiyo
as Woman came back from Penang
as Yamashita
as Okin
as Kyoko's mother
as Ohno's Mother
as Wellwisher on train
as Okuni
as Mother
as Old lady with Shingen bag
as Misa Mori
as Oyabe Baayan
as Takahata Chiyo
as おぎん
as Teacher Oda
as Oseki
as Choji's Mother
as Ume Tanabe
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
as Farmer’s Wife
as Chiyo Takahata
as Saku, Kirinoe's mother
as Female Drug Addict
as Mrs. Mochizuki
as Miyo
as Kan Horinouchi
as Ume Shinohara
as Dôro no Hinanmin
as Haruko's Mother
as The Aunt
as Tomoko Wada
as Misae Sugiyama
as Kura Sugiyama (Shinji’s Mother)
as Katsuko
as Tetsu
as Osumi
as Toki Kawahara
as Osen Yamamura
as Mrs. Shimooka
as Ozawa-san (uncredited)
as Congresswoman Natsuko Kamioka
as Ozawa-san
as Housewife