Sanae Takasugi

Sanae Takasugi (高杉 早苗, Takasugi Sanae, 8 October 1918 – 26 November 1995) was a Japanese film and television actress.

Sanae Takasugi
Sanae Takasugi in 1937
Born	(1918-10-08)8 October 1918 Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Died	26 November 1995(1995-11-26) (aged 77)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actress

Career

Born in Asakusa, Takasugi first performed in a dance hall before joining the Shochiku studio in 1934.[1] She made her screen debut in Yasujiro Shimazu's Tonari no Yae-chan, and had her first starring role in Keisuke Sasaki's Yama no yūyake.[1] She married the kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshirō III in 1938, and continued to act in film and later television.[1] She received a Golden Glory Award at the Japanese Movie Critics Awards in 1994.[2]

She mothered three children: the kabuki actors Ichikawa Ennosuke III and Ichikawa Danshirō IV, and the actress Yasuko Ichikawa. She is the grandmother of the actors Ichikawa Ennosuke IV and Teruyuki Kagawa.

Selected filmography

Films

• Tonari no Yae-chan (1934)
• Yama no yūyake (1934)
• [The Munekata Sisters]] (1950)
• Wife (1953)
• A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
• Wolf (1955)

Television

• Nyonin Musashi (1971)

References

1. "高杉 早苗". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 May 2019.
2. "過去の受賞作品". Japan Movie Critics Award (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 May 2019.

External links

• Sanae Takasugi on IMDb

• Takasugi Sanae at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)