Kin Sugai
Introduction  (28 February 1926 – 10 August 2018) was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for ''The Funeral''. Sugai is famous for her role as Sen Nakamura in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 8th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in ''The Funeral''. In 2008, she landed lead role for the first time in the Hideo Sakai film ぼくのおばあちゃん (Hepburn: ''Boku no Obaachan'') at the age of 82, and was certified as Guinness as "the world's oldest movie starring actress".
Filmography ;Film Year Title Role Notes 1952 ''Ikiru'' Housewife 1954 ''Godzilla'' Ozawa1955 ''Ai no onimotsu'' ''Wolf'' 1956 ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'' Uncredited1957 ''Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate'' Okuma ''Kuroi kawa''1958 ''Onna de aru koto'' Yoshiko ''Stakeout'' Mrs. Shimooka ''Stolen Desire'' Osen Yamamura ''Tsuzurikata kyodai'' Toki Kawahara1959 ''Karatachi nikki'' ''Dansei shiikuhô'' ''Ningen no kabe''1960 ''Haru no yume'' Tetsu ''When a Woman Ascends the Stairs'' ''Kuroi hanabira'' ''Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen'' ''Shiroi gake'' ''Robo no ishi '' Akitaro And Kinu's Mother ''Daigaku no sanzôkutachi'' Madam at General store ''The Bad Sleep Well'' Tomoko Wada ''Autumn Has Already Started'' The Aunt '''Akasaka no shimai' yori: yoru no hada'' Okin Yoshikawa1961 ''Pigs and Battleships'' Haruko's mother ''A Soldier's Prayer'' Dôro no Hinanmin ''Wakai ôkami'' Yoshiko Kawamoto ''Minami no kaze to nami'' Matsuyo ''Wakarete ikiru toki mo'' ''Koi no gashû'' ''Daigaku no wakadaishô'' ''Kusa wo karu musume'' Chie ''Girls of the Night'' ''Keishichô monogatari: jûni-nin no keiji'' Ume Shinohara ''Gen to fudômyô-ô'' ''Hadakakko'' Okimi1962 ''Gan no tera'' Kan Horinouchi ''Karami-ai'' ''Musume to watashi'' Nun ''Foundry Town'' Miyo ''Kigeki ekimae onsen'' ''Hôrô-ki'' ''Burari Bura-bura Monogatari'' ''Futari de aruita iku haru aki'' Mrs. Mochizuki ''Varan the Unbelievable'' Medium1963 ''High and Low'' Female Drug Addict ''Tokyo aantachibiru: dasso'' Saku, Kirinoe's mother ''Ame no naka ni kiete'' Chiyo Takahata ''Shiro to kuro'' ''Shitamachi no taiyô'' Nobue ''Tokubetsu kidô sôsatai: Tokyo eki ni harikome'' Sada ''Gendaikko'' Masako ''Hiken'' ''Onna no rekishi'' Tsune (Nobuko's mother)1964 ''Ware hitotsubu no mugi naredo'' ''Kwaidan'' Village woman (segment "Yuki-Onna")1965 ''Red Beard'' Chôji's Mother ''Miseinen - Zoku cupola no aru machi'' Miyo Kanayama ''Kemonomichi'' ''Hana no o-Edo no hôkaibô'' Okuma ''An Innocent Witch'' Kikuno1966 ''The Pornographers'' ''Dark the Mountain Snow''1967 ''Zoku izuko e'' Torako ''Sasori'' ''Moero! Taiyô''1968 ''Meguri-ai'' Kiyo Etô ''Fushin no toki'' Yamakawa ''Kokosei geisha'' Toki Kajiwara ''The Human Bullet'' ''Minagoroshi no reika''1969 ''Yotarô senki'' Head Nurse Kanzaki ''Konto 55go: Jinrui no daijakuten'' ''Dai Nippon suri shûdan''1970 ''Beast Capital'' ''Mujô'' mother ''Dodes'ka-den'' Okuni 1971 ''Maboroshi no satsui''1972 ''The Long Darkness'' Wellwisher on train ''Kuro no honryu'' Toku Sugiyama ''Hito-kiri Yota: Kyoken San-kyodai''1973 ''Sukeban: Kankain dassô'' ''Nihon kyôka den'' Okin1974 ''Castle of Sand'' Yamashita ''Sandakan No. 8'' Woman came back from Penang ''New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' Tadashi's mother1975 ''Kobe Kokusai Gang'' Chiyo ''Zesshô'' Servant1977 ''Mount Hakkoda'' ''Edogawa Rampo no injû'' ''Godzilla'' Uncredited 1978 ''Oyomeni yukimasu'' Mineko1979 ''Vengeance Is Mine'' Defendant's mother ''Gassan'' Kane1981 ''Hono-o no gotoku'' ''Willful Murder'' Fusa1984 ''Jo no mai'' Asa ''The Funeral'' Kikue Amamiya1985 ''Kanashii kibun de joke'' Primary school teacher ''Hissatsu! Buraun-kan no kaibutsutachi'' Sen ''Fire Festival'' Tatsuo's Mother ''Usugeshô'' Toyo1986 ''Uemura Naomi monogatari'' Yoshi Ogawa ''Hissatsu! III Ura ka Omote ka'' Sen1987 ''Sure Death 4: Revenge'' Sen ''Hachiko Monogatari'' Owner's wife at inn 1988 ''Chichi'' Matsu1990 ''Tales of a Golden Geisha'' Foster mother ''Suki! ''1991 ''Kamigata Kugaizoshi'' ''Kojika monogatari'' Kana Osaki ''Chōshōjo Reiko'' Mitsurei Kurou, Reiko's Grandmother ''Shimanto-gawa'' Haru 1994 ''Ie naki ko'' 1995 ''Deep River'' Tsukada's wife 1996 ''Hissatsu! Mondo Shisu'' Sen Nakamura 1997 ''Kikansha sensei'' Voice1999 ''Ano natsu no hi'' Yuta's grandmother ''Sentakuki wa ore ni makasero'' Old lady 2001 ''Kewaishi'' Tome 2003 ''Tegami'' Izumi Sugino 2004 ''Riyû'' Taeko Katakura 2007 ''Kiiroi namida'' Yone2010 ''Matataki'' old woman ''Haru's Journey'' Keiko Kanemoto 2014 ''Trick The Movie: Last Stage''===Television===*''Hissatsu series''**''Hissatsu Shiokinin'' (1973) as Sen Nakamura**''Kurayami Shitomenin'' (1974) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shiokiya Kagyō'' (1975–1976) as Sen Nakamura**''Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin'' (1977) as Sen Nakamura**''Edo Professional Hissatsu Shōbainin'' (1978) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shigotonin'' (1979–1981) as Sen Nakamura**''Shin Hissatsu Shigotonin'' (1981–1982) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shigotonin III'' (1982–1983) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shigotonin V Gekitouhen'' (1985–1986) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shigotonin V Senpuhen'' (1986–1987) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shigotonin V Fuunryūkohen'' (1987) as Sen Nakamura**''Hissatsu Shigotonin Gekitotsu'' (1991–1992) as Sen Nakamura*''Taiyo ni Hoero!'' (1973–1974) as Taki Shibata*''The Water Margin'' (1973)*''Uchi no Ko ni Kagitte...'' (1985) Teacher Aramaki*''Kōmyō ga Tsuji'' (2006) as Naka
Honours *Medal with Purple Ribbon (1990)*Order of the Precious Crown, 4th Class, Wisteria (1996)
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