Ichiro Sugai

Ichirō Sugai
Sugai in The Life of Oharu
Born	(1907-07-25)25 July 1907 Kyoto, Japan
Died	11 August 1973(1973-08-11) (aged 66)
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director
Years active	1927-1971

Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎, Sugai Ichirō, 25 July 1907 – 11 August 1973) was a Japanese actor and film director^[1] who appeared in more than 300 films in his 45 years spanning career,^[2][3] working with directors such as Kaneto Shindō, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.^[1]

Sugai was born in Rukahara (now Higashiyama Ward), Kyoto.^[1][3] He left junior high school prematurely and entered the Kyoto section of the Nikkatsu film company in 1925.^[1] In the 1930s, he first switched to Shinkō Kinema before founding the actors group Dai-ichi kyōdan and becoming a freelance actor in 1939.^[1] Notable films of this era include Kenji Mizoguchi's The Water Magician (1933) and The Straits of Love and Hate (1937).^[1] After World War II, Sugai became a sought after supporting actor.^[1] In addition to numerous films by directors Shindō, Mizoguchi and Yoshimura, he appeared in films by Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai, Shōhei Imamura and Yasujirō Ozu.^[2]

Sugai directed two films himself, Dorodarake no seishun (1954) and Furanki no uchūjin (1957).^[1][2]

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