Person
Kei Satō
Born 21 December 1928 Died 2 May 2010, aged 81 Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan TMDB ↗
Kei Satō (佐藤 慶, Satō Kei; born December 21, 1928 in Aizuwakamatsu – May 2, 2010) was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and for several films with Kaneto Shindo, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no akuryō. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film.
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The numbers
30age in their first credit on record (1959)
50years on screen and counting
13credits in 1963, their busiest year
211dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 80 Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
2009as Kazutaka Hyodo
Age: 80 Dear My Love
2009
Age: 76 The Whispering of the Gods
2005as Father Togawa
Age: 74 Azumi
2003as Tenkai Nankôbô
Age: 73 Sensen fukoku
2002
Age: 70 Taboo
1999as Narrator (voice)
Age: 70 The Perfect Education
1999as Lawyer
Age: 70 Neo Faust
1999as Dr. Faust
Age: 68 Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
1997
Age: 66 Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995
Age: 66 Last Friends
1995
Age: 65 The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting
1994
Age: 64 Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
1993
Age: 64 Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993
Age: 63 The Visas That Saved Lives
1992
Age: 63 Erotic Liaisons
1992as Nemoto
Age: 63 Kachô Shima Kôsaku
1992
Age: 63 The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992as Detective
Age: 63 Dioxin from Fish!
1992as Genjiro
Age: 62 Akizakura - Cosmos
1991
Age: 61 The Fir Tree Remains
1990
Age: 61 Ronin-gai
1990as Iseya
Age: 61 Detective Heiji
1990
Age: 61 Shingo's Ten Duels
1990as Inoue Kawachi-no-kami
Age: 60 Business Trip
1989as (voice)
Age: 60 Festival of Dreams
1989
Age: 59 I Love You So Much
1988No poster
Age: 59 Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
Age: 59 Green Requiem
1988No poster
Age: 59 The Notorious Bored Samurai
1988
Age: 59 Nezumi Kozo's Edo Adventure
1988
Age: 58 The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
1987
Age: 58 The Hopi Prophecy
1987as Narrator (voice)
Age: 57 Yakuza Ladies
1986as Hitoshi Awazu
Age: 57 Surgical Designs in Flames
1986
Age: 56 Godzilla 1985
1985as Gondo
Age: 56 Let Him Rest in Peace
1985as Futoshi Shimoyama
Age: 56 I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985as Nakajima
Age: 55 The Return of Godzilla
1984as Chief Editor Gondo
Age: 55 Appassionata
1984
Age: 54 Choji Snack Bar
1983as Yoshino
Age: 54 The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
1983as Police Inspector
Age: 54 The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
1983as Police Chief
Age: 52 Station
1981
Age: 52 Day Dream
1981as Dentist
Age: 52 The Imperial Navy
1981
Age: 51 The Beast to Die
1980as Endo
Age: 51 The Night of Martial Law
1980
Age: 51 Target
1980as Ichiro Hamada
Age: 51 The Revolt
1980as Narrator (voice)
Age: 50 The Execution Game
1979
Age: 50 The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979as Dr. Ichikawa
Age: 50 Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
1979as Gorô Onodera , Military Commentator
Age: 50 The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
1979as Shimizu
Age: 50 Dead Angle
1979
Age: 50 Golden Partners
1979as Ohkawa
Age: 49 The Killing Game
1978as Shoichi Katsuda
Age: 49 Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1978as Sekino
Age: 49 Empire of Passion
1978as Orator
Age: 49 Lost Love
1978as Nogami
No poster
Age: 48 The Skies of Haruo
1977
Age: 48 Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1977as Sekino
Age: 48 High Seas Hijack
1977as T.V. Director Fukami
Age: 48 Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
Age: 48 They Were Eleven
1977
Age: 47 Yakuza Graveyard
1976as Teramitsu Abara
Age: 46 Conflagration
1975as Director Fukami
Age: 46 Shimane Prison Riot
1975as Prison Guard
Age: 45 My Way
1974as Koide, Chief of Police
Age: 45 The Tattooed Hitman
1974as Yukio Yamaji
Age: 45 Demon Spies
1974
Age: 44 Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
1973as tyobei(Izuya)
Age: 44 A Japanese Demon
1973as Psychiartist
Age: 44 Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973as Shobei Hamajima
Age: 44 A Diary of a Woman Doctor
1973
Age: 44 Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1973as Magistrate
Age: 44 Flower and Dragon
1973
Age: 44 Secret High School Girl: After School Activity
1973
Age: 43 Cross-Currents
1972
Age: 43 Dear Summer Sister
1972as Shinkô Kuniyoshi
Age: 43 Gang Warfare
1972
Age: 43 Chase That Man
1972
Age: 42 Inn of Evil
1971as Yohei
Age: 42 Expelled from the Kanto Mob
1971
Age: 42 Challenge at Dawn
1971
Age: 42 The Ceremony
1971as Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather
Age: 42 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970as Murase / Ochiai
Age: 41 Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
Age: 41 Naked Ambition
1970
Age: 40 Lone Rebel
1969
Age: 40 Bullet Wound
1969
Age: 40 The Curse of the Ghost
1969as Iyemon
Age: 40 Devil's Temple
1969as Priest
Age: 39 Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
1968
Age: 39 Where did Sharaku go?
1968as Tōshūsai Sharaku
Age: 39 Women and Miso Soup
1968
Age: 39 Hymn to a Tired Man
1968as Takenori Suzuki
Age: 39 Song of my Life
1968as Masanobu Kurosawa
Age: 39 Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968as Y Chong - iru
Age: 39 Kuroneko
1968as Raiko
Age: 39 The Great Villains
1968as Ichiro Yasui
Age: 39 Death by Hanging
1968as Prison warden
Age: 38 Eleven Samurai
1967as Secretary Mizumo
Age: 38 A Killer's Key
1967
Age: 38 Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967as Otoko
No poster
Age: 38 The River - Poem of Wrath
1967as Doctor
Age: 38 Band of Ninja
1967as Sakagami Shuzen
Age: 38 Clouds at Sunset
1967
Age: 37 Glorious Fights
1966as Yuzo Gondo
Age: 37 Assignment Cloud
1966as Nishida
Age: 37 Your Life
1966
Age: 37 Violence at Noon
1966as Eisuke Oyamada
Age: 37 Captive's Island
1966
Age: 37 Zatoichi's Vengeance
1966as Boss Gonzo
Age: 37 A Man Worth the Money
1966
Age: 37 The Sword of Doom
1966as Kamo Serizawa
Age: 37 Irezumi
1966as Hatamoto Serizawa
Age: 37 Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
1966
Age: 36 The Flower and the Dragon
1965
Age: 36 Sword Devil
1965as Secretery Kanbe
Age: 36 Pleasures of the Flesh
1965as Police inspector
Age: 36 Samurai Spy
1965as Takanosuke Nojiri
Age: 36 Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again
1965
Age: 36 Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965
Age: 36 Young Boss
1965as Izo
Age: 36 The Tattooed Lord
1965
Age: 36 Kwaidan
1965as Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Age: 36 Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
1965
Age: 35 Onibaba
1964as Hachi
Age: 35 The Ninja Hunt
1964
Age: 35 Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
1964as Kinjiro Takeuchi
Age: 35 Homicide
1964as Asaichi Isobe
Age: 35 Roadside Stone
1964as Shogo
Age: 35 Brand of Evil
1964as Eguchi
Age: 35 A Story from Echigo
1964
Age: 35 Life of Hishakaku 3
1964
Age: 35 The Third Ninja
1964
Age: 35 Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964as Otaguro
Age: 35 Onibaba : Film Location
1964
Age: 34 Sasuke and His Comedians
1963
Age: 34 Duel of Blood and Sand
1963as Katsumaki
Age: 34 Mother
1963as Dr. Koiguchi
Age: 34 Okashina yatsu
1963as Shamoji
Age: 34 Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
1963
Age: 34 Blackmail
1963
Age: 34 League of Gangsters
1963as Takamoto
Age: 34 At the Side of the Bridge 4
1963
Age: 34 The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
1963
Age: 34 Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
Age: 34 Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963as Saburobei Konoe
Age: 34 Violent Street
1963
Age: 34 Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
1963
Age: 34 Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
1962
Age: 33 The Paper Crane
1962
Age: 33 Human
1962as Hachizo
Age: 33 Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Age: 33 The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
1962
Age: 33 Harakiri
1962as Masakazu
Age: 33 Pitfall
1962as Reporter
Age: 33 Kyoto Assassin
1962
Age: 33 Tokyo Bay
1962as Takeyama
Age: 33 The Christian Revolt
1962
Age: 33 The Inheritance
1962as Cop
Age: 33 Drunkard's Paradise
1962
Age: 32 Procurer of Hell
1961
Age: 32 Shiroi minamikaze
1961
Age: 32 Onna no hashi
1961as Kazuhiko Yamana
Age: 32 Epitaph to My Love
1961as Shinji Tsuda
Age: 32 Women of Tokyo
1961as Tamio Yamada
Age: 32 Bitter End of a Sweet Night
1961
Age: 32 Incidental Murders
1961as Ieraishan Tatsu
Age: 31 Towering Waves
1960
Age: 31 Night and Fog in Japan
1960as Sakamaki
Age: 31 Volunteering for Villainy
1960as Iwai
Age: 31 The Last Trump Card
1960
Age: 31 The Sun's Burial
1960as Sakaguchi
Age: 31 Good-for-Nothing
1960
Age: 31 Cruel Story of Youth
1960as Akira Matsuko
Age: 31 Knock Down
1960
Age: 30 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959as Shinjô Ittôhei
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TV credits
Age: 75 Prayer Beads
2004
Age: 75 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ
2004as Sabee Inugami
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Age: 74 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Age: 72 Honmamon
2001as Sadamichi Yamanaka (Konoha's grandfather)
Age: 71 Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
2000as Mashita Nagamori
Age: 67 Concerto
1996
Age: 66 Wave in Mind
1995
Age: 61 Graduation
1990
Age: 60 Jūkyūsai
1989
Age: 59 Tabaruzaka
1987as Iwakura Tomomi
Age: 58 Chotchan
1987as 北山俊道
Age: 58 Byakkotai
1986as Tanaka Tosa
Age: 57 Rice Curry
1986
Age: 56 The Autumn in Tokyo
1985
Age: 56 Kokugo Gannen
1985
Age: 55 水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
Age: 53 Nemuri Kyoshiro
1982
Age: 52 Precious Moments
1981
Age: 52 Pro Hunter
1981
Age: 51 The Trading Company
1980as Shigeru Yasuda
Age: 50 Kusa Moeru
1979as Hiki Yoshikazu
Age: 50 Yasei no Shōmei
1979
Age: 49 Ningen no Shōmei
1978
Age: 46 松本清張シリーズ・中央流沙
1975as 岡村局長
Age: 45 Fateful Mountain Pass
1974as Asahina Genzaemon
Age: 44 The Water Margin
1973as Kao Chiu
Age: 44 Lone Wolf and Cub
1973as Retsudo Yagyu
Age: 43 Professional Killers
1972
Age: 39 Star of the Night
1968
Age: 36 Taikouki
1965as Akechi Mitsuhide
Age: 35 The Dawn of Asia
1964as Li Lie-jun