Acting

Kan Sugi

Born August 14, 1889

Died August 7, 1974 · aged 84

No biography available.

Known For

Seven SamuraiSeven Samurai · 1954
Seven Samurai
8.51954
MovieActionDrama
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.
Haunted CaveHaunted Cave · 1959
Haunted Cave
8.01959
MovieHorror
The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.
Ghost Story of YotsuyaGhost Story of Yotsuya · 1959
Ghost Story of Yotsuya
6.51959
MovieHorror
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
The Symbol of a ManThe Symbol of a Man · 1963
The Symbol of a Man
7.01963
MovieDrama
A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.
Black Cat MansionBlack Cat Mansion · 1958
Black Cat Mansion
6.51958
MovieDramaHorror
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
Forty-Eight ManForty-Eight Man · 1952
Forty-Eight Man
8.01952
Movie
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Mr. Shosuke OharaMr. Shosuke Ohara · 1949
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
6.21949
MovieComedyDrama
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.
The Lady VampireThe Lady Vampire · 1959
The Lady Vampire
5.41959
MovieHorror
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...

Filmography

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Bridge of JapanBridge of Japan · 1956
Bridge of Japan
7.81956
MovieRomanceDrama
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.