Kenji Sahara - Selected Filmography

Selected Filmography

Sahara did a lot of work for the Toho Company, the studio that has so far has produced twenty-eight Godzilla movies. He has appeared in at least thirty kaiju or 'monster' films, often in a supporting role, including:

• Farewell Rabaul (1954)
• Godzilla (1954) - Young Lover On The Sound
• Yuki No Koi (1955) - (credited as Tadashi Ishihara)
• Seifuku No Otome Tachi (1955) - Hideya Fujiwara (credited as Tadashi Ishihara)
• Aoi Me (1956) - Jirô Hayashi (credited as Tadashi Ishihara)
• Street of Shame (1956)
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) - Man on Boat
• Norihei No Daigaku (1956) - (credited as Tadashi Ishihara)
• People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956) - (credited as Tadashi Ishihara)
• Rodan (1956) - Shigeru Kawamura (credited as Kenji Sawara)
• Yoru no kamome (1957)
• Meshiro Sanpei monogatari (1957) - Otsuka
• Zoku Sazae-san (1957)
• Hikage no musume (1957)
• Daigaku no samurai tachi (1957) - Yamada
• The Mysterians (1957) - Joji Atsumi
• Song for a Bride (1958)
• The Badger Palace (1958)
• Kiuchi yasuto (1958)
• Anzukko (1958)
• The H-Man (1958) - Dr. Masada
• The Young Beast (1958)
• Zokuzoku salaryman shussetai koki (1958)
• Josei S.O.S. (1958)
• Otona niwa wakaranai: Seishun hakusho (1958)
• Salaryman jikkai (1959)
• Onna gokoro (1959)
• Gokigen musume (1959)
• Mothra (1961)
• Gorath (1962)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
• Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
• Atragon (1963)
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)
• Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
• Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
• War of the Gargantuas (1966)
• Son of Godzilla (1967)
• Destroy All Monsters (1968)
• Godzilla's Revenge (1969)
• Space Amoeba (1970)
• Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster (1974)
• Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974)
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Sahara was also the lead in the first of the Ultra series, Ultra Q. He also appeared in a number of subsequent Ultra series, including:

• Ultra Q (1966)- as Jun Manjoume
• Ultra Seven (1967–1968)
• Ultraman 80 (1980–1981)
• Ultraman Nexus (2004–2005)
• Ultraman Mebius (2006–2007)

His latest Ultraman appearance was in the 2008 Ultraman movie, Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers.