Kin Sugai

{{Short description|Japanese actress (1926–2018)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1926|2|28}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|8|10|1926|2|28}}

| death_place = Tokyo, Japan

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1951–2010

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{{Nihongo|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.{{Cite web|url= http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1984/|script-title= ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー|access-date= 2010-01-23|language= ja|publisher= Cinema Hochi|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090131124850/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1984/|archive-date= 2009-01-31}} Sugai is famous for her role as Sen Nakamura in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.{{cite web|url=https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2018082300522&g=soc|publisher=時事ドットコム|title=菅井きんさん死亡 必殺シリーズで活躍|access-date=March 15, 2019|archive-date=August 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823113211/https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2018082300522&g=soc|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/jinbutsu/detail.cgi?das_id=D0009250558_00000|title= Kin Sugai at NHK|work=NHK|access-date= September 6, 2021}}

She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 8th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in The Funeral.{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%8F%85%E4%BA%95%E3%81%8D%E3%82%93-1995853|title=知恵蔵mini「菅井きん」の解説|work=kotobank|access-date= September 6, 2021}} 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".