Japanese actor Kei Sato was best known for his roles as screen villains. He starred in Kaneto Shindo’s 1964 horror film Onibaba, and was a ghost samurai in the supernatural thriller Kwaidan (1964). He was also featured as Chief Editor Gondo in Godzilla 1985 (1984).
Sato was born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, on December 21, 1928. He worked as a municipal government official in Fukushima before moving to Tokyo to study acting in 1950. He trained at the Haiyuza Theater and made his film debut in Masaki Kobayashi’s 1959 epic The Human Condition. He worked frequently with New Wave director Nagisa Oshima from the early 1960s, appearing in such films as Cruel Story of Youth (1960) and Night and Fog in Japan (1960).
His many screen credits also include Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963), Zatoichi #13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance (1966), The Sword of Doom (1966), Irezumi (1966), Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968), Yotsuya Kaidan – Oiwa no Borei (a.k.a. The...
Sato was born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, on December 21, 1928. He worked as a municipal government official in Fukushima before moving to Tokyo to study acting in 1950. He trained at the Haiyuza Theater and made his film debut in Masaki Kobayashi’s 1959 epic The Human Condition. He worked frequently with New Wave director Nagisa Oshima from the early 1960s, appearing in such films as Cruel Story of Youth (1960) and Night and Fog in Japan (1960).
His many screen credits also include Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963), Zatoichi #13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance (1966), The Sword of Doom (1966), Irezumi (1966), Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968), Yotsuya Kaidan – Oiwa no Borei (a.k.a. The...
- 6/22/2010
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Tadashi Imai's Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (Bushidô Zankoku Monogatari) was released in 1963. The film won Golden Bears at the Berlinale for Best Film and Best Actor that same year, which makes the February DVD release of the film by AnimEigo somewhat timely (Berlinale is, after all, in February). Whatever the case, Bushido is an exceptional dramatic work with a downbeat tone and hard edge.
The film begin in modern times as Susumu Iikuru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) is called to the hospital to attend his finance Kyoko (Eijiro Tono) after her suicide attempt. The events leading up to Kyoko's suicide cause Susumu to question his behavior and reflect on whether his family history was the source of his woes. As it turns out, Susumu is descended from 7 generations of samurai who lived under the strict code of Bushido ("The Way of the Warrior").
Bushido follows the Iikuru...
The film begin in modern times as Susumu Iikuru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) is called to the hospital to attend his finance Kyoko (Eijiro Tono) after her suicide attempt. The events leading up to Kyoko's suicide cause Susumu to question his behavior and reflect on whether his family history was the source of his woes. As it turns out, Susumu is descended from 7 generations of samurai who lived under the strict code of Bushido ("The Way of the Warrior").
Bushido follows the Iikuru...
- 2/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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