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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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Known For
Yojimbo
(1961)
Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)
Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
(1959)
Naruto Nitôhei
High and Low
(1963)
Chief of First Investigating Section
Mothra vs. Godzilla
(1964)
Head of JSDF Task Force (uncredited)
The Hidden Fortress
(1958)
General Hyoe Tadokoro
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Detective
Japan's Longest Day
(1967)
Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
(1952)
Togashi
Frankenstein Conquers the World
(1965)
Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
No Regrets for Our Youth
(1946)
Ruykichi Noge
Samurai Assassin
(1965)
Tatewaki Todo
Full Filmography
Acting
The Whole Family Works
(1939)
Genji's fellow worker
Song of the White Orchid
(1939)
Machi
(1939)
Youth Officer
The Burning Sky
(1940)
Oath on the Burning Sands
(1940)
Navy Bomb Squadron
(1940)
Okumura Ioka
(1940)
Story of Leadership
(1941)
Shintaro Sagawa
Mother Never Dies
(1942)
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
(1942)
Yamashita
Green Earth
(1942)
Currents of Youth
(1942)
Murakami, Test Pilot
Sanshiro Sugata
(1943)
Sanshiro Sugata
Hot Wind
(1943)
Kensuke Shibata
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
(1944)
Colonel Kato
Battle Troop
(1944)
Mikami
Nichijô no tatakai
(1944)
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
(1945)
Sanshiro Sugata
Duel at Yagyu Valley
(1945)
Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
Three Women of the North
(1945)
Kanchō umi no bara
(1945)
No Regrets for Our Youth
(1946)
Ruykichi Noge
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
(1946)
Goro Urashima
Lord for a Night
(1946)
Those Who Make Tomorrow
(1946)
Fujita
An Enemy of the People
(1946)
The Age of Beginnings
(1947)
Goro Asahina
Rira no hana wasureji
(1947)
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
(1947)
Living Image
(1948)
Kōfuku no genkai
(1948)
A Flower Blooms
(1948)
Teruhiko Kuwai
Ishimatsu of the Forest
(1949)
Ishimatsu
Kirare no Senta
(1949)
白頭巾現わる
(1949)
Snow-Flake
(1950)
Mimaki
Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
(1950)
Sanshiro of Ginza
(1950)
Kumasuke Arai
Heat and Mud
(1950)
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
(1951)
Chief Takagi
Karate Sanshiro
(1951)
新遊侠伝
(1951)
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
(1951)
Sekidô matsuri
(1951)
Bengawan Solo
(1951)
Sergeant Odagiri
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
(1952)
Togashi
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
(1952)
Iori Saotome
Yasen kangofu
(1953)
The Battleship Yamato
(1953)
Jiro Nomura
Tower of Lilies
(1953)
Dr. Oka
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
(1954)
Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
(1954)
Kingorô Tamai
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
(1954)
Kingorô Tamai
Hanran
(1954)
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
(1955)
Dad
Kingoro's Soldier
(1956)
勤王？ 佐幕？ 女人曼陀羅
(1956)
銀蛇の岩屋
(1956)
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
(1956)
The Mysterians
(1957)
Gen. Morita
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
(1957)
Kaoru Inoue
Street of Ronin
(1957)
Escapade in Japan
(1957)
The Hidden Fortress
(1958)
General Hyoe Tadokoro
The Spider-Man
(1958)
Kogoro Akechi
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
(1958)
Eight Views of Samurai
(1958)
Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
(1959)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
(1959)
Naruto Nitôhei
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
(1959)
I Want to Be a Shellfish
(1959)
General Yano
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Detective
The Storm of the Pacific
(1960)
Yakuza of Ina
(1960)
Boss Daihachi
The Gambling Samurai
(1960)
Magistrate Jubei Matsui
Yojimbo
(1961)
Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
Daredevil in the Castle
(1961)
Katsuyasu Sakakibara
Challenge to Live
(1961)
47 Ronin
(1962)
Operation Sewer Rats
(1962)
Lieutenant Masamune
Mount Hakone
(1962)
High and Low
(1963)
Chief of First Investigating Section
Atragon
(1963)
Defense Commander
Attack Squadron
(1963)
Yamato Commander Ito
Siege of Fort Bismarck
(1963)
Young Swordsman
(1963)
Kagawa Tanomo
Mothra vs. Godzilla
(1964)
Head of JSDF Task Force (uncredited)
Dogora
(1964)
General Iwasa
Frankenstein Conquers the World
(1965)
Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
Samurai Assassin
(1965)
Tatewaki Todo
A Fugitive from the Past
(1965)
Police Chief
風来忍法帖
(1965)
The Retreat from Kiska
(1965)
Akitani
Rampaging Dragon of the North
(1966)
Rub Out the Past
(1966)
Tokutaro Hayami
Zero Fighter
(1966)
Japan's Longest Day
(1967)
Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
Kojiro
(1967)
Shogen the Instructor
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
(1968)
Admiral Yamamoto
(1968)
Kurita
Battle of the Japan Sea
(1969)
Uemura
The Falcon Fighters
(1969)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)
Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
A Young Man's Stronghold
(1970)
The Militarists
(1970)
Osami Nagano
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
(1971)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
(1971)
Return of Ultraman
(1971)
Chief Kishida
Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
(1971)
Chief Kishida
Shiosai
(1971)
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
(1972)
The Gate of Youth
(1975)
Winter's Flower
(1978)
Ryokichi Sakata
Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
(1979)
Chief
The Imperial Navy
(1981)
Navy Minister Oikawa
Blue Jeans Memory
(1981)
Good Luck Love
(1981)
Baian the Assassin
(1981)
Hanuemon Otowaya
The Longest Tunnel
(1982)
Detective Story
(1983)
Gozo Kunizaki