Sadao Abe
Sadawo Abe is a Japanese actor, stage actor, and musician from Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. He started his acting career after joining a theater company/talent agency, Otona Keikaku, in around 1992 and gained his popularity after the drama series Team Medical Dragon and as being the lead singer of the Japanese comedy rock band Group Tamashii. His stage name is a pun on notorious geisha Sada Abe.
Abe was nominated for best actor in the 31st Japanese Academy Award for Maiko Haaaan!!!.
Discography
Filmography
Film
- Naked Blood as Eiji Kure
- Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment as Hiroshi Fujimoto
- After Life
- Uzumaki as Mitsuru Yamaguchi
- Kamikaze Girls as Ryuji 'the Unicorn'/Doctor
- The Great Yokai War
- Yaji and Kita: [The Midnight Pilgrims]
- Helen the Baby Fox as police officer
- Ten Nights of Dream
- Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series as Kaoru Nekota
- Maiko Haaaan!!! as Kimihiko Onizuka
- Paco and the Magical Picture Book as Horigome
- Yatterman as Dr. Kaieda
- Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki as Gōyan
- Gothic Lolita Battle Bear as teddy bear
- Parasyte: Part 1 as Migi
- Parasyte: Part 2 as Migi
- The Magnificent Nine as Juzaburo Kokudaya
- Birds Without Names as Jinji
- Louder!: Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp as Shin
- The 47 Ronin in Debt as Asano "Takumi no Kami" Naganori
- Mother as Ryo
- Lesson in Murder as Yamato Haimura
- I Am Makimoto as Sō Makimoto
- Shylock's Children as Masahiro Nishiki
- Revolver Lily as Isoroku Yamamoto
- Last Mile as Ryuhei Yagi
- 11 Rebels as Mizoguchi Takumi
- Cells at Work! as Shigeru Urushizaki
Television
- Karin
- Bayside Shakedown, Saeki
- Ikebukuro [West Gate Park], Hamaguchi
- Summer Snow
- Kisarazu Cat's Eye, Kaoru Nekota
- Kokoro
- Tiger & Dragon, Hayashiyatei Donta
- Unfair, Kokubo Yuji
- Dare Yorimo Mama wo Ai su, Pinko
- Team Medical Dragon, Monji Arase
- First Kiss, Masaru Nikaido
- Team Medical Dragon 2, Monji Arase
- The Waste Land, Hideo Tahara
- Marumo no Okite, Mamoru Takagi
- Taira no Kiyomori, Shinzei
- Keisei Saimin no Otoko Part 2, Ichizō Kobayashi
- Gekokujō juken, Shinichi Sakurai
- Naotora: [The Lady Warlord], Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Anone, Kaji Mochimoto
- Idaten, Masaji Tabata
- Taiga Drama ga Umareta Hi, Kinji Kusuda
- Extremely Inappropriate!, Ichiro Ogawa
- Anpan, Sōkichi Yamura
- Their Marriage, Kotaro Harada
- Extremely Inappropriate! Special, Ichiro Ogawa