(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 kawa1958 Onna de aru koto Yoshiko Stakeout Mrs. Shimooka Stolen Desire Osen Yamamura Tsuzurikata kyodai Toki Kawahara1959 Karatachi nikki Dansei shiikuhô Ningen no kabe1960 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 Snow1967 Zoku izuko e Torako Sasori Moero! Taiyô1968 Meguri-ai Kiyo Etô Fushin no toki Yamakawa Kokosei geisha Toki Kajiwara The Human Bullet I, the Executioner Misa1969 Yotarô senki Head Nurse Kanzaki Konto 55go: Jinrui no daijakuten Dai Nippon suri shûdan1970 Beast Capital Mujô mother Dodes'ka-den Okuni 1971 Maboroshi no satsui1972 The Long Darkness Wellwisher on train Kuro no honryu Toku Sugiyama Hito-kiri Yota: Kyoken San-kyodai1973 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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