Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1912-01-08
Day of Death
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 roles, often playing a soldier in war films. During the sixties and seventies he played minor roles in tokusatsu or "special effects pictures" such as Ultraman and Frankenstein Conquers the World. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susumu Fujita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (135)
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984
Detective Story
1983
The Longest Tunnel
1982
Good Luck Love
1981
The Imperial Navy
1981
Blue Jeans Memory
1981
Baian the Assassin
1981
Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
1979
Winter's Flower
1978
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
The Gate of Youth
1975
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
1972
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
1971
