Susumu Fujita

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, 1912-01-08

Died: 1991-03-23

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	The Whole Family Works	Genji's fellow worker	62
2	1939	Machi	Youth Officer	0
3	1939	Song of the White Orchid		0
4	1940	The Burning Sky		0
5	1940	Navy Bomb Squadron		0
6	1940	Okumura Ioka		0
7	1940	Oath on the Burning Sands		0
8	1941	Story of Leadership	Shintaro Sagawa	0
9	1942	Currents of Youth	Murakami, Test Pilot	0
10	1942	Green Earth		0
11	1942	Mother Never Dies		60
12	1942	The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya	Yamashita	0
13	1943	Sanshiro Sugata	Sanshiro Sugata	66
14	1943	Hot Wind	Kensuke Shibata	0
15	1944	Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron	Colonel Kato	70
16	1944	Nichijô no tatakai		0
17	1944	Battle Troop	Mikami	0
18	1945	Kanchō umi no bara		0
19	1945	Sanshiro Sugata Part Two	Sanshiro Sugata	60
20	1945	Duel at Yagyu Valley	Yagyu Tajima-no-kami	0
21	1945	Three Women of the North		0
22	1946	A Descendant of Urashima Taro	Goro Urashima	60
23	1946	An Enemy of the People		0
24	1946	Those Who Make Tomorrow	Fujita	0
25	1946	Lord for a Night		80
26	1946	No Regrets for Our Youth	Ruykichi Noge	68
27	1947	A Thousand and One Nights with Toho		0
28	1947	The Age of Beginnings	Goro Asahina	0
29	1947	Rira no hana wasureji		0
30	1948	A Flower Blooms	Teruhiko Kuwai	0
31	1948	Living Image		0
32	1948	Kōfuku no genkai		0
33	1949	白頭巾現わる		0
34	1949	Kirare no Senta		0
35	1949	Ishimatsu of the Forest	Ishimatsu	0
36	1950	Sanshiro of Ginza	Kumasuke Arai	0
37	1950	Heat and Mud		0
38	1950	Snow-Flake	Mimaki	80
39	1950	Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi		0
40	1951	新遊侠伝		0
41	1951	新遊侠伝　遊侠往来		0
42	1951	Bengawan Solo	Sergeant Odagiri	0
43	1951	Sekidô matsuri		0
44	1951	Akatsuki no Kyūshū	Chief Takagi	0
45	1951	Karate Sanshiro		0
46	1952	The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail	Togashi	66
47	1952	Sunset Over Mount Fuji	Iori Saotome	0
48	1953	Tower of Lilies	Dr. Oka	68
49	1953	The Battleship Yamato	Jiro Nomura	0
50	1953	Yasen kangofu		10
51	1954	Hanran		0
52	1954	Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô	Kingorô Tamai	0
53	1954	Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten	Kingorô Tamai	0
54	1954	Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced		0
55	1955	Nonki saiban		0
56	1955	Nobuko Rides on a Cloud	Dad	0
57	1956	Kingoro's Soldier		0
58	1956	銀蛇の岩屋		0
59	1956	Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets		50
60	1956	勤王？　佐幕？　女人曼陀羅		0
61	1957	Street of Ronin		62
62	1957	Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War	Kaoru Inoue	0
63	1957	Escapade in Japan		55
64	1957	The Mysterians	Gen. Morita	64
65	1958	Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War		0
66	1958	Eight Views of Samurai		60
67	1958	The Spider-Man	Kogoro Akechi	48
68	1958	The Hidden Fortress	General Hyoe Tadokoro	80
69	1959	I Want to Be a Shellfish	General Yano	100
70	1959	The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung		0
71	1959	Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender		85
72	1959	The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity	Naruto Nitôhei	82
73	1960	Yakuza of Ina	Boss Daihachi	70
74	1960	The Gambling Samurai	Magistrate Jubei Matsui	63
75	1960	The Storm of the Pacific		56
76	1960	The Bad Sleep Well	Detective	77
77	1961	Daredevil in the Castle	Katsuyasu Sakakibara	74
78	1961	Yojimbo	Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town	81
79	1961	Challenge to Live		0
80	1962	Operation Sewer Rats	Lieutenant Masamune	0
81	1962	Mount Hakone		0
82	1962	Chûshingura		73
83	1963	Attack Squadron	Yamato Commander Ito	60
84	1963	High and Low	Chief of First Investigating Section	83
85	1963	Siege of Fort Bismarck		0
86	1963	Young Swordsman	Kagawa Tanomo	65
87	1963	Atragon	Defense Commander	65
88	1964	Mothra vs. Godzilla	Head of JSDF Task Force	70
89	1964	Dogora	General Iwasa	68
90	1964	ホラ吹き太閤記		0
91	1965	Samurai Assassin	Tatewaki Todo	73
92	1965	A Fugitive from the Past	Police Chief	75
93	1965	風来忍法帖		0
94	1965	The Retreat from Kiska	Akitani	83
95	1965	Frankenstein Conquers the World	Osaka Prefectural Police Chief	66
96	1966	Zero Fighter		0
97	1966	Rub Out the Past	Tokutaro Hayami	60
98	1966	Rampaging Dragon of the North		60
99	1967	Kojiro	Shogen the Instructor	75
100	1967	Japan's Longest Day	Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment	71
101	1968	風来忍法帖　八方破れ		0
102	1968	Admiral Yamamoto	Kurita	83
103	1969	Battle of the Japan Sea	Uemura	60
104	1969	The Falcon Fighters		0
105	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi	72
106	1970	A Young Man's Stronghold		0
107	1970	The Militarists	Osami Nagano	80
108	1971	Return of Ultraman	Chief Kishida	60
109	1971	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape		50
110	1971	Shiosai		0
111	1971	Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters	Chief Kishida	65
112	1971	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter		0
113	1972	Lullaby for a Tough Guy		0
114	1975	The Gate of Youth		90
115	1978	Winter's Flower	Ryokichi Sakata	62
116	1979	Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle	Chief	63
117	1981	Baian the Assassin	Hanuemon Otowaya	90
118	1981	Blue Jeans Memory		0
119	1981	The Imperial Navy	Navy Minister Oikawa	66
120	1981	Good Luck Love		0
121	1982	The Longest Tunnel		0
122	1983	Detective Story	Gozo Kunizaki	62

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	Ultraman	Chief of Staff of the Defense Force	83
2	1971	Return of Ultraman	Fumio Kishida	85