was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director

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, and for several films with

Kaneto Shindo was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include ''Children of Hiroshima'', ''The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', ''Kuroneko'' and ' ...

, such as '' Onibaba'' and ''

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''. He won the best actor award from ''

Kinema Junpo , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ...

'' for the films '' The Ceremony'' and ''Nihon no akuryō''. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film. In his early days as an actor, before his success in '' The Human Condition'', he supported himself by producing ''gariban'' hand-written

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s, and he maintained his interest in hand-printing to the end of his life. In 1981 he appeared in the film ''

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'' performing an unsimulated sex scene with actress Kyoko Aizome. The involvement of a mainstream actor in a hardcore film made good press coverage and brought audiences to the theater "in droves".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Kei Japanese male actors 1928 births 2010 deaths Actors from Fukushima Prefecture People from Aizu