| Kin Sugai | |
| Birth Date: | 1926 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1951–2010 |
(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.[1] Sugai is famous for her role as Sen Nakamura in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.[2] [3]
She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 8th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in The Funeral.[4] 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".[4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Ikiru | Housewife | ||
| 1954 | Godzilla | Ozawa | ||
| 1955 | Ai no onimotsu | |||
| Wolf | ||||
| 1956 | Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Uncredited | ||
| 1957 | Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate | Okuma | ||
| Kuroi kawa | ||||
| 1958 | Onna de aru koto | Yoshiko | ||
| Stakeout | Mrs. Shimooka | |||
| Stolen Desire | Osen Yamamura | |||
| Tsuzurikata kyodai | Toki Kawahara | |||
| 1959 | Karatachi nikki | |||
| Dansei shiikuhô | ||||
| Ningen no kabe | ||||
| 1960 | Haru no yume | Tetsu | ||
| When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | ||||
| Kuroi hanabira | ||||
| Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen | ||||
| Shiroi gake | ||||
| Robo no ishi | Akitaro And Kinu's Mother | |||
| Daigaku no sanzôkutachi | Madam at General store | |||
| The Bad Sleep Well | Tomoko Wada | |||
| Autumn Has Already Started | The Aunt | |||
| Akasaka no shimai' yori: yoru no hada | Okin Yoshikawa | |||
| 1961 | Pigs and Battleships | Haruko's mother | ||
| A Soldier's Prayer | Dôro no Hinanmin | |||
| Wakai ôkami | Yoshiko Kawamoto | |||
| Minami no kaze to nami | Matsuyo | |||
| Wakarete ikiru toki mo | ||||
| Koi no gashû | ||||
| Daigaku no wakadaishô | ||||
| Kusa wo karu musume | Chie | |||
| Girls of the Night | ||||
| Keishichô monogatari: jûni-nin no keiji | Ume Shinohara | |||
| Gen to fudômyô-ô | ||||
| Hadakakko | Okimi | |||
| 1962 | Gan no tera | Kan Horinouchi | ||
| Karami-ai | ||||
| Musume to watashi | Nun | |||
| Foundry Town | Miyo | |||
| Kigeki ekimae onsen | ||||
| Hôrô-ki | ||||
| Burari Bura-bura Monogatari | ||||
| Futari de aruita iku haru aki | Mrs. Mochizuki | |||
| Varan the Unbelievable | Medium | |||
| 1963 | High and Low | Female Drug Addict | ||
| Tokyo aantachibiru: dasso | Saku, Kirinoe's mother | |||
| Ame no naka ni kiete | Chiyo Takahata | |||
| Shiro to kuro | ||||
| Shitamachi no taiyô | Nobue | |||
| Tokubetsu kidô sôsatai: Tokyo eki ni harikome | Sada | |||
| Gendaikko | Masako | |||
| Hiken | ||||
| Onna no rekishi | Tsune (Nobuko's mother) | |||
| 1964 | Ware hitotsubu no mugi naredo | |||
| Kwaidan | Village woman | (segment "Yuki-Onna") | ||
| 1965 | Red Beard | Chôji's Mother | ||
| Miseinen - Zoku cupola no aru machi | Miyo Kanayama | |||
| Kemonomichi | ||||
| Hana no o-Edo no hôkaibô | Okuma | |||
| An Innocent Witch | Kikuno | |||
| 1966 | The Pornographers | |||
| Dark the Mountain Snow | ||||
| 1967 | Zoku izuko e | Torako | ||
| Sasori | ||||
| Moero! Taiyô | ||||
| 1968 | Meguri-ai | Kiyo Etô | ||
| Fushin no toki | Yamakawa | |||
| Kokosei geisha | Toki Kajiwara | |||
| The Human Bullet | ||||
| I, the Executioner | Misa | |||
| 1969 | Yotarô senki | Head Nurse Kanzaki | ||
| Konto 55go: Jinrui no daijakuten | ||||
| Dai Nippon suri shûdan | ||||
| 1970 | Beast Capital | |||
| Mujô | mother | |||
| Dodes'ka-den | Okuni | |||
| 1971 | Maboroshi no satsui | |||
| 1972 | The Long Darkness | Wellwisher on train | ||
| Kuro no honryu | Toku Sugiyama | |||
| Hito-kiri Yota: Kyoken San-kyodai | ||||
| 1973 | Sukeban: Kankain dassô | |||
| Nihon kyôka den | Okin | |||
| 1974 | Castle of Sand | Yamashita | ||
| Sandakan No. 8 | Woman came back from Penang | |||
| New Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Tadashi's mother | |||
| 1975 | Kobe Kokusai Gang | Chiyo | ||
| Zesshô | Servant | |||
| 1977 | Mount Hakkoda | |||
| Edogawa Rampo no injû | ||||
| Godzilla | Uncredited | |||
| 1978 | Oyomeni yukimasu | Mineko | ||
| 1979 | Vengeance Is Mine | Defendant's mother | ||
| Gassan | Kane | |||
| 1981 | Hono-o no gotoku | |||
| Willful Murder | Fusa | |||
| 1984 | Jo no mai | Asa | ||
| The Funeral | Kikue Amamiya | |||
| 1985 | Kanashii kibun de joke | Primary school teacher | ||
| Hissatsu! Buraun-kan no kaibutsutachi | Sen | |||
| Fire Festival | Tatsuo's Mother | |||
| Usugeshô | Toyo | |||
| 1986 | Uemura Naomi monogatari | Yoshi Ogawa | ||
| Hissatsu! III Ura ka Omote ka | Sen | |||
| 1987 | Sen | |||
| Hachiko Monogatari | Owner's wife at inn | |||
| 1988 | Chichi | Matsu | ||
| 1990 | Tales of a Golden Geisha | Foster mother | ||
| Suki! | ||||
| 1991 | Kamigata Kugaizoshi | |||
| Kojika monogatari | Kana Osaki | |||
| Chōshōjo Reiko | Mitsurei Kurou, Reiko's Grandmother | |||
| Shimanto-gawa | Haru | |||
| 1994 | Ie naki ko | |||
| 1995 | Deep River | Tsukada's wife | ||
| 1996 | Hissatsu! Mondo Shisu | Sen Nakamura | ||
| 1997 | Kikansha sensei | Voice | ||
| 1999 | Ano natsu no hi | Yuta's grandmother | ||
| Sentakuki wa ore ni makasero | Old lady | |||
| 2001 | Kewaishi | Tome | ||
| 2003 | Tegami | Izumi Sugino | ||
| 2004 | Riyû | Taeko Katakura | ||
| 2007 | Kiiroi namida | Yone | ||
| 2010 | Matataki | old woman | ||
| Haru's Journey | Keiko Kanemoto | |||
| 2014 |