Kin Sugai (菅井きん, Sugai Kin) (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.[1] Sugai is famous for her role as Sen Nakamura in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.[2][3]
She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 8th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in The Funeral.[4] 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".[4]
Filmography
- Film
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
References
- ↑報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2009-01-31. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ↑"菅井きんさん死亡 必殺シリーズで活躍". 時事ドットコム. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ↑"Kin Sugai at NHK". NHK. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
- 12"知恵蔵mini「菅井きん」の解説". kotobank. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
- 1926 births
- 2018 deaths
- Actresses from Tokyo
- People from Shinjuku
- Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
- Japanese screen actor stubs