Susumu Fujita

from Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Artwork for Tora! Tora! Tora!Image of 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.

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Timeline

1983Aged 71

  • Poster for Detective Story

    Gozo Kunizaki

1982Aged 70

  • Poster for The Longest Tunnel

    (Unknown)

1981Aged 69

  • Poster for Baian the Assassin

    Hanuemon Otowaya

  • Poster for Blue Jeans Memory

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Imperial Navy

    Navy Minister Oikawa

  • Poster for Good Luck Love

    (Unknown)

1979Aged 67

  • Poster for Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle

    Chief

1978Aged 66

  • Poster for Winter's Flower

    Ryokichi Sakata

1977Aged 65

  • Poster for Japanese Humanity and Justice

    (Unknown)

1975Aged 63

  • Poster for The Gate of Youth

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Battle Cry

    Yata

1972Aged 60

  • Poster for Lullaby for a Tough Guy

    (Unknown)

1971Aged 59

  • Poster for Return of Ultraman

    Chief Kishida

  • Poster for New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Shiosai

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters

    Chief Kishida

  • Poster for New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

    (Unknown)

1970Aged 58

  • Poster for Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi

  • Poster for A Young Man's Stronghold

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Militarists

    Osami Nagano

1969Aged 57

  • Poster for Battle of the Japan Sea

    Uemura

  • Poster for The Falcon Fighters

    (Unknown)

1968Aged 56

  • Poster for Homeless Ninja Trick Book: Lose  in All Directions

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Admiral Yamamoto

    Kurita

1967Aged 55

  • Poster for Kojiro

    Shogen the Instructor

  • Poster for Japan's Longest Day

    Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment

1966Aged 54

  • Poster for Zero Fighter

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Rub Out the Past

    Tokutaro Hayami

  • Poster for Rampaging Dragon of the North

    (Unknown)

1965Aged 53

  • Poster for Samurai Assassin

    Tatewaki Todo

  • Poster for A Fugitive from the Past

    Police Chief

  • Poster for President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

    President Shōji (Kansai Department Store)

  • Poster for Homeless Ninja Trick Book

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Retreat from Kiska

    Akitani

  • Poster for Frankenstein Conquers the World

    Osaka Prefectural Police Chief

1964Aged 52

  • Poster for Trap of Suicide Kilometer

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Mothra vs. Godzilla

    Head of JSDF Task Force

  • Poster for Dogora

    General Iwasa

  • Poster for The Sandal Keeper

    (Unknown)

1963Aged 51

  • Poster for Attack Squadron

    Yamato Commander Ito

  • Poster for High and Low

    Chief of First Investigating Section

  • Poster for Siege of Fort Bismarck

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Young Swordsman

    Kagawa Tanomo

  • Poster for Atragon

    Defense Commander

1962Aged 50

  • Poster for Operation Sewer Rats

    Lieutenant Masamune

  • Poster for Mount Hakone

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Chûshingura

    (Unknown)

1961Aged 49

  • Poster for Daredevil in the Castle

    Katsuyasu Sakakibara

  • Poster for Yojimbo

    Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town

  • Poster for Challenge to Live

    (Unknown)

1960Aged 48

  • Poster for Yakuza of Ina

    Boss Daihachi

  • Poster for The Gambling Samurai

    Magistrate Jubei Matsui

  • Poster for Wings of Dawn

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Storm of the Pacific

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Bad Sleep Well

    Detective

1959Aged 47

1958Aged 46

  • Poster for Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Eight Views of Samurai

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Spider-Man

    Kogoro Akechi

  • Poster for The Hidden Fortress

    General Hyoe Tadokoro

1957Aged 45

  • Poster for Street of Ronin

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

    Kaoru Inoue

  • Poster for The Decoy

    Saitō (Chief Inspector)

  • Poster for The Surprising Legend of Jirocho: Jirocho's Family Feud

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Escapade in Japan

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Mysterians

    Gen. Morita

1956Aged 44

1955Aged 43

  • Poster for Nonki saiban

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Nobuko Rides on a Cloud

    Dad

  • Poster for The History of Love

    (Unknown)

1954Aged 42

  • Poster for Hanran

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô

    Kingorô Tamai

  • Poster for Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

    Kingorô Tamai

  • Poster for Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Tōjinbō no oni

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for 日本敗れず

    (Unknown)

1953Aged 41

  • Poster for Tower of Lilies

    Dr. Oka

  • Poster for The Battleship Yamato

    Jiro Nomura

  • Poster for Field Nurse

    (Unknown)

1952Aged 40

1951Aged 39

  • Poster for Bōya monogatari

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Red Key

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for 新遊侠伝

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Freedom School

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for 新遊侠伝 遊侠往来

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Jōen no hatoba

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Hana aru dotō

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Bengawan Solo

    Sergeant Odagiri

  • Poster for Sekidô matsuri

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Akatsuki no Kyūshū

    Chief Takagi

  • Poster for Karate Sanshiro

    (Unknown)

1950Aged 38

1949Aged 37

  • Poster for 白頭巾現わる

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Omokage Sanshiro

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Scarface Senta

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Ishimatsu of the Forest

    Ishimatsu

  • Full Moon

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Maboroshi fujin

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Return

    (Unknown)

1948Aged 36

1947Aged 35

  • Poster for A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Age of Beginnings

    Goro Asahina

  • Poster for Rira no hana wasureji

    (Unknown)

1946Aged 34

  • Poster for A Descendant of Urashima Taro

    Goro Urashima

  • Poster for An Enemy of the People

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Those Who Make Tomorrow

    Fujita

  • Poster for Beauty

    Shinichi Tazawa

  • Poster for Lord for a Night

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for No Regrets for Our Youth

    Ruykichi Noge

1945Aged 33

1944Aged 32

  • Poster for Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron

    Colonel Kato

  • Poster for Nichijô no tatakai

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Battle Troop

    Mikami

1943Aged 31

  • Poster for Sanshiro Sugata

    Sanshiro Sugata

  • Poster for Searing Wind

    Kensuke Shibata

1942Aged 30

  • Poster for Currents of Youth

    Murakami, Test Pilot

  • Poster for Green Earth

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Mother Never Dies

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

    Yamashita

1941Aged 29

  • Poster for Story of Leadership

    Shintaro Sagawa

1940Aged 28

1939Aged 27