From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Susumu Fujita 藤田 進 Fujita Susumu 8 January 1912 23 March 1991 was a Japanese film and television actor He played the lead role in Akira Kurosawas first feature Sanshiro Sugata and appeared other Kurosawa film including The Men Who Tread On the Tigers Tail as Togashi commander of the border guards and The Hidden Fortress as General Tadokoro Later he was a supporting actor in Ishirō Hondas Mothra vs Godzilla among many other films Before and during World War II Fujita was considered one of the great stars of Japanese cinema In the postwar period he became known for supporting roles often playing a soldier in war films During the sixties and seventies he played minor roles in tokusatsu or special effects pictures such as Ultraman and Frankenstein Conquers the World Description above from the Wikipedia article Susumu Fujita licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia