Kin Sugai

Kin Sugai

February 28, 1926 · 100 years old

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

16 titles
1
Godzilla

Godzilla

1954 · 1h 36m · Movie

After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.

7.6
2
Kwaidan

Kwaidan

1965 · 3h 3m · Movie

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

7.9
3
Dodes'ka-den

Dodes'ka-den

1970 · 2h 20m · Movie

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

7.3
4
The Funeral

The Funeral

1984 · 2h 4m · Movie

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

7.2
5
This Transient Life

This Transient Life

1970 · 2h 23m · Movie

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his aff...

7.7
6
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.

7.2
7
Black River

Black River

1957 · 1h 54m · Movie

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

7.2
8
The Inheritance

The Inheritance

1962 · 1h 47m · Movie

A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

7.4
9
Yakuza Graveyard

Yakuza Graveyard

1976 · 1h 37m · Movie

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming rough in order to get results. Matters take...

7.1
10
The Human Bullet

The Human Bullet

1968 · 1h 56m · Movie

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.

7.3
11
Tales of a Golden Geisha

Tales of a Golden Geisha

1990 · 1h 54m · Movie

The story of a young orphan who becomes a geisha who brings luck to the men she meets, making her the target of several unscrupulous males.

6.5
12
Onna bakari no yoru

Onna bakari no yoru

1961 · 1h 33m · Movie

A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.

7.3
13
Usugeshô

Usugeshô

1985 · 2h 4m · Movie

A man who is jailed for murdering his family after he confessed, escapes. His only chance at freedom is his new love interest, who tries to shield him from the authorities.

6.6
14
Kyûpora no aru machi

Kyûpora no aru machi

1962 · 1h 39m · Movie

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

7.3
15
Matataki

Matataki

2010 · 1h 50m · Movie

A young woman named Izumi (Keiko Kitagawa) suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi (Masaki Okada), who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the t...

5.8
16
Father

Father

1988 · 1h 14m · Movie

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

5.7