Kin Sugai

Kin Sugai
Born(1926-02-28)28 February 1926
Tokyo, Japan
Died10 August 2018(2018-08-10) (aged 92)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationActress
Years active1951–2010

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Kin Sugai at NHK". NHK. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "知恵蔵mini「菅井きん」の解説". kotobank. Retrieved September 6, 2021.