Yoshio Kosugi

AKA: 小杉義夫, یوشیو کوسوگی, یوشیو کوسوجی
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1903-09-15

Nikko, Tochigi, Japan

Biography

Yoshio Kosugi (小杉 義男 Kosugi Yoshio, 15 September 1903 - 12 March 1968) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1924 to 1967.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {114}

Mosuke

1954-04-26 8.45

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Soldier (uncredited)

1958-12-28 7.975

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Master Saburo Kodama

1943-03-25 6.5

Sanshiro Sugata

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guar ...
Genre :Drama

Suruga

1952-04-24 6.7

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Thriller, Adventure

Cmdr. Sugimoto

1957-12-28 6.4

The Mysterians

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller, War

1940-08-14 0

Zoku Hebihimesama

Genre :Drama

Horibe Yasubee

1952-06-26 0

Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki ...
Genre :

Sarumaru

1952-10-30 0

恐妻時代

Genre :

Tatsuma Hayase

1953-02-05 0

An Edoite Judge

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo ...
Genre :Drama

Lord of the cabaret

1950-02-27 0

Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda ...
Genre :Drama

1953-04-15 0

Yasugorō shusse

Genre :Crime, Drama

Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

1967-08-03 7.2

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

1963-09-29 0

Operation Mad Dog

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda ...
Genre :Drama, Action, War

Onishika

1962-04-29 0

Home-Brewed Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

1942-06-11 0

Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel. ...
Genre :

Destroyer Captain

1963-01-03 6

Attack Squadron

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War

Takasugi

1947-08-05 7

Snow Trail

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Oba

1955-08-14 4.563

Beast Man Snow Man

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure

1939-08-10 0

Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity Enoken takes to farcical extremes. ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Toun

1936-06-01 6

Man of the House

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a gei ...
Genre :Drama, History

1962-10-13 0

Chihō kisha

Genre :Drama

1955-12-28 0

Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume

Genre :Drama

1946-06-27 0

Life Is like a Somersault

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow. ...
Genre :Drama

Mean Detective

1960-12-11 6.6

The Human Vapor

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's mos ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller

1956-08-08 0

Rebels on the High Sea

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

1957-02-05 0

A Man in the Storm

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Tatsuzo

1938-02-01 0

Subterranean Heat

Genre :History, Drama

1963-08-31 6.5

Young Swordsman

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about ...
Genre :Drama

1958-04-15 0

Holiday in Tokyo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. B ...
Genre :Drama

1955-11-01 6.3

So Young, So Bright

Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the three of them. A musical starring 3 Japanese pop musi ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

1951-10-26 5

Sasaki Kojiro

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to nati ...
Genre :Action, History

1945-03-08 0

I Believe I Am Being Followed

Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong. ...
Genre :War

Chief of Infant Island

1964-12-20 7

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Fantasy, Thriller

Ship Captain

1961-07-30 7.136

Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses ...
Genre :Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy

JSDF Executive

1965-08-08 6.7

Frankenstein Conquers the World

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Infant Island Chief

1964-04-29 7.031

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Science Fiction

Farou Island Chief

1962-08-11 6.896

King Kong vs. Godzilla

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Action

1943-01-03 0

Kantaro of Ina

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa. ...
Genre :Drama, History

(uncredited)

1959-01-15 8.1

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military se ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Eijirô Kasai

1951-04-14 6.1

Ginza Cosmetics

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son. ...
Genre :Drama

1939-06-28 0

Iron Brothers

It's been a long time since the war. Since we haven't been at war with America yet, there is a line in the movie that asks, "How do you say "dried fish" in English?" Brothers who work at a factory th ...
Genre :

Official A

1956-06-22 5.6

The Legend of the White Serpent

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Horror

1957-04-02 6

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin ...
Genre :Drama

1956-12-26 5.3

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin. ...
Genre :Drama

Hanaba

1958-10-21 6

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin. ...
Genre :Drama

1937-03-11 0

Karayuki-san

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes Uni ...
Genre :

1951-12-07 6.8

The Life of a Horse Trader

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns. ...
Genre :Drama

Daizô Okano

1956-10-16 0

Love on Rainbow Island

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet ...
Genre :Drama

Tokisaburo

1960-03-28 6.3

The Gambling Samurai

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join wi ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

Circus Owner

1957-05-17 3

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by moder ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

King of Devils

1959-04-19 0

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy

1952-05-22 7

Sword for Hire

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But wh ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1957-04-14 7

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

(uncredited)

1954-09-25 7.163

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Gidayu Fujimoto

1961-01-03 7.1

Daredevil in the Castle

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mo ...
Genre :History, War, Action

Kansuke Yamamoto

1941-11-30 0

The Battle of Kawanakajima

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Captain of Thai ship

1963-10-26 5.7

Samurai Pirate

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

1964-01-03 6.4

Whirlwind

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army. ...
Genre :History, Action, Adventure

1956-01-22 0

The Maiden Courtesan

Period romantic drama. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1938-02-02 6

The Giant

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in ...
Genre :History, Drama

Nonaka

1952-02-28 0

The Skin of the South

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who ...
Genre :

Gonji

1966-01-15 6.5

Rise Against the Sword

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to re ...
Genre :History, Action, War, Drama

Zenzo Sakuma

1941-03-11 5.8

Horse

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the arm ...
Genre :Drama

1961-09-17 0

The Youth and His Amulet

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Iwataro

1955-08-31 0

The Lone Journey

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1936-06-21 6

Brother and Sister

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughte ...
Genre :Drama

Aikawa (a poet)

1935-06-01 0

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel. ...
Genre :

1939-05-19 5

Shanghai Landing Party

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regime ...
Genre :Documentary, War

1953-01-09 0

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

Jirocho the gambler hits the road. ...
Genre :

1953-06-03 0

Her Captive Gamblers

Genre :

Hoshino

1955-01-09 0

Lovetide

An Ishiro Honda film. ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-07-02 0

A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

An Ishiro Honda film. ...
Genre :

1962-11-03 7.2

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Action

1961-08-13 0

Blood on the Sea

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot. ...
Genre :Adventure

1959-08-09 6.3

Saga of the Vagabonds

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1958-04-21 7.216

The Rickshaw Man

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

スリの親分金平

1924-06-01 0

Child of the Streets

Genre :Drama

1943-01-14 0

The Opium War

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war. ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Hisako's Father

1958-05-26 0

All About Marriage

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Seiji (Eriko's father)

1956-08-15 0

Jacks and Jills

Genre :Music, Comedy

1951-03-24 0

The White Orchid

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo ...
Genre :Drama

Faro Island Chief (uncredited)

1963-06-26 6.552

King Kong vs. Godzilla

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspec ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

(uncredited)

1953-10-21 7.6

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pe ...
Genre :Drama, War

1953-05-27 0

Their Father's Wife

Genre :Drama

Bonze

1954-12-29 0

Madame Butterfly

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera. ...
Genre :Music

1949-04-05 0

Kirare no Senta

Genre :Drama, History

1949-07-11 0

Jakoman and Tetsu

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides ...
Genre :Drama

Jukichi

1954-10-20 0

The Surf

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. ...
Genre :

1951-02-22 0

Elegy

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke ...
Genre :

Ichiro Takashima, Hideko's father

1940-01-31 0

Hideko the Cheerleader

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chief Officer Okubo

1960-01-03 6.1

The Last Gunfight

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investiga ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Action

1942-01-07 0

Musashibo Benkei

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is, of course, a man). The ...
Genre :Drama, History

1941-10-04 0

Story of Leadership

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work w ...
Genre :Drama

1939-11-30 0

Song of the White Orchid

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Cont ...
Genre :Drama

Maple Leaf Man

1942-01-14 0

Sky of Hope

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

1936-11-12 0

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Hikoroku Laughs a lot ...
Genre :Comedy

1952-07-15 7.6

Tokyo Sweetheart

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1960-08-14 0

Life of a Country Doctor

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his w ...
Genre :Drama

1935-10-09 0

Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu

Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't kno ...
Genre :

1951-06-22 0

Swords and Brocade

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers. ...
Genre :Drama

1952-10-23 0

Swift Current

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, and the human relationships involve ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1964-08-01 0

Garakuta

1964 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1967-04-12 0

Zoku izuko e

Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka. ...
Genre :

1955-07-06 0

むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷

1955 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1961-11-22 0

Bandits on the Wind

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Sugiura (Gatekeeper)

1957-04-09 0

Elephant from "Zoo Story"

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the Tokyo air raids of World War II, Zen-san, an eleph ...
Genre :Drama

Managing Director of Kamizumi

1950-10-24 0

Tokyo Gate

Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, Tachikawa Maki publishes the Ginza Minpo, a small newspaper that exposes the muggers and gangsters p ...
Genre :Crime

1955-11-15 0

Miai Ryokou

A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film. ...
Genre :

Tamie’s Father

1963-03-01 0

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in work and in the personal affairs of his team. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1960-07-31 0

University Bandits

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a lodge during a blizzard. This ski action romp has ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1964-12-20 0

Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan

A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin Yoba" and Kajiro Yamamoto, who worked on "The Story ...
Genre :

Shōgo Mitai (Politician)

1960-03-08 0

Ginza Tomboy

A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past corruption and starts anew. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Gonnosuke Ooshi

1940-10-30 0

A Sister's Promise

A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The four remaining women have to take care of themselves ...
Genre :Drama

1952-12-16 0

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

1952 Japanese movie ...
Genre :