Keiji Sakakida

Keiji Sakakida

Born: January 15, 1900
in Japan
Sakakida debuted in film in 1921, and appeared in a number pre-war films with various studios, including Nikkatsu, Takamatsu-Azuma, Empire Kinema, and Makino Talkie, before finally landing at PCL in 1937, which would later become Toho.

After the war, Sakakida appeared in numerous supporting roles for Toho, predominantly sci-fi, beginning with the original Godzilla in 1954. He played the mayor of the island town attacked by Godzilla in the first half of the film. One of his last appearances was in Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975), in a still shot of a group of scientists restraining Akihiko Hirata’s character.

Movies for Keiji Sakakida...

The Blossom and the Sword
Title: The Blossom and the Sword
Released: November 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
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Duel at Fort Ezo
Title: Duel at Fort Ezo
Released: February 9, 1970
Type: Movie
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
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Judge and Jeopardy
Title: Judge and Jeopardy
Released: June 8, 1968
Type: Movie
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
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Rise Against the Sword
Title: Rise Against the Sword
Character: Sanzo
Released: November 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
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Atragon
Title: Atragon
Character: Mt. Mihara Climber
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
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Chihō kisha
Title: Chihō kisha
Released: October 13, 1962
Type: Movie
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Gorath
Title: Gorath
Character: Government Personnel
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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The Human Vapor
Title: The Human Vapor
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Title: I Want to Be a Shellfish
Released: April 12, 1959
Type: Movie
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
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The H-Man
Title: The H-Man
Character: Old policeman - investigation room (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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Ôban
Title: Ôban
Released: March 5, 1957
Type: Movie
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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Rodan
Title: Rodan
Character: Tahei
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
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Tokyo no hito sayonara
Title: Tokyo no hito sayonara
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1956
Type: Movie
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Invisible Man
Title: Invisible Man
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
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Godzilla
Title: Godzilla
Character: Mayor Inada (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
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Seven Samurai
Title: Seven Samurai
Character: Gosaku
Released: April 26, 1954
Type: Movie
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
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Eagle of the Pacific
Title: Eagle of the Pacific
Released: October 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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Ikiru
Title: Ikiru
Character: Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Title: Tokyo Sweetheart
Released: July 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
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Forbidden Path
Title: Forbidden Path
Released: July 8, 1952
Type: Movie
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Till We Meet Again
Title: Till We Meet Again
Released: March 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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World of Love
Title: World of Love
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
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Hideko the Bus Conductor
Title: Hideko the Bus Conductor
Character: Bus customer
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.
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Life Begins at 61
Title: Life Begins at 61
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Japanese war-era film
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Kodakara fūfu
Title: Kodakara fūfu
Released: February 26, 1941
Type: Movie
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Travelling Actors
Title: Travelling Actors
Character: Farmer
Released: December 18, 1940
Type: Movie
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
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Keshô yuki
Title: Keshô yuki
Released: February 14, 1940
Type: Movie
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Song of the White Orchid
Title: Song of the White Orchid
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.
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Shanghai Landing Party
Title: Shanghai Landing Party
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
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Nightingale
Title: Nightingale
Character: Ticket Clerk
Released: November 9, 1938
Type: Movie
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
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The Giant
Title: The Giant
Released: February 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
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Brother and Sister
Title: Brother and Sister
Released: June 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.
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Sun over the River
Title: Sun over the River
Released: May 17, 1934
Type: Movie
Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and separation. The film is considered lost.
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The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Title: The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Character: Ri Sekijo
Released: September 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Propaganda film, presumed lost.
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A Living Puppet
Title: A Living Puppet
Released: April 19, 1929
Type: Movie