Actor

Kin Sugai

February 28, 1926 · Tokyo, Japan

Kin Sugai (菅井きん Sugai Kin) (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. Sugai is famous for her role in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.

Notable work

8.3
Ikiru (1952)
as Housewife
8.4
High and Low (1963)
as Female Drug Addict
7.6
Godzilla (1954)
as Mrs. Ozawa
7.7
Kwaidan (1965)
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Often works with

Tatsuya Nakadai
7 titles together
High and Low, Kwaidan, The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Takashi Shimura
4 titles together
Ikiru, High and Low, Godzilla
Nobuo Kaneko
3 titles together
Ikiru, The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Minoru Chiaki
3 titles together
Ikiru, High and Low, The Inheritance
Kamatari Fujiwara
3 titles together
Ikiru, The Bad Sleep Well, The Funeral
Takeshi Katō
3 titles together
High and Low, The Bad Sleep Well, Pigs and Battleships

Full filmography · 150

Piecing Me Back Together
as Old Lady
2010
Haru's Journey
as Keiko Kanemoto
2010
My Grandma
as Misao Murata
2008
Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
as Yukari Godai
2008
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
as Nakamura Sen
2007
Yellow Tears
as Yone
2007
The Motive
as Taeko Katakura
2004
Gozamareji
cast
2003
Kewaishi
cast
2002
As the River Flows
cast
2000
One Summer's Day
as Yuta's grandmother
1999
The Washing Machine
cast
1999