1954Winner
Best Performance
Seven Samurai
Sachio Sakai
Actor
Tokyo, Japan
September 8, 1925
Biography
Sachio Sakai (堺 左千夫, Sakai Sachio, September 8, 1925 - March 11, 1998), real name Yukio Abe (阿部 幸男, Abe Yukio), was a Japanese actor. Sakai was the son of an electrician and later graduated from Tokyo City Asakusa Technical College. In 1946, Sakai entered and passed the first Toho New Face program and had his first film appearance under the studio in 1947 in Akira Kurosawa's "One Wonderful Sunday". Sakai would go on to appear in numerous films by the studio, including many directed by Kurosawa, Kihachi Okamoto, and Ishiro Honda.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1952Winner
Best Performance
Ikiru
1954Winner
Best Performance
Godzilla
Career Highlights
1961Highlight
Best Performance
Yojimbo
1962Highlight
Best Performance
Sanjuro