
Susumu Fujita
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1912-01-08 – 1991-03-23
Place of birth: Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susumu Fujita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

The Hidden Fortress
1958General Hyoe Tadokoro
Hot Wind
1943Kensuke Shibata
Mothra vs. Godzilla
1964Head of JSDF Task Force
Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965Osaka Prefectural Police Chief
Escapade in Japan
1957
The Bad Sleep Well
1960Detective
Yojimbo
1961Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
High and Low
1963Chief of First Investigating Section
Heat and Mud
1950
Sanshiro Sugata
1943Sanshiro Sugata
Atragon
1963Defense Commander
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1952Togashi
The Mysterians
1957Gen. Morita
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946Ruykichi Noge
新遊侠伝
1951
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
1951
Bengawan Solo
1951Sergeant Odagiri
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
1952Iori Saotome