Isamu Kosugi
Isamu Kosugi (小杉 勇, Kosugi Isamu, 24 February 1904 – 8 April 1983) was a Japanese actor and film director.
The 47 Ronin
as Denpachirô TamonIn 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the...
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I Am Waiting
as UchiyamaA former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster...
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Tokyo March
as 佐久間雄吉A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The...
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Kōfuku no genkai
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting...
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Earth
as KanjiKanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and...
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The Grand Master
as KikuokaShogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor...
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Phoenix
as Hiroya YasakaA Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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Hungry Soul, Part II
as Naokichi ShibaA continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to...
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Victory Song
as OkawaHisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedAfter the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its...
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Island of Horrors
as Police ShimizuKindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the...
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悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
as uncreditedWhen Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the...
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Police Officer
as Officer ItamiItami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As...
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The Daughter of the Samurai
as Teruo YamatoTeruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from...
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Hungry Soul
as Naokichi ShibaReiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi,...
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G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack
as uncreditedA man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an...
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Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
as uncreditedSequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).
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Saigo no totsugeki
as uncreditedA narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The...
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Mud and Soldiers
as uncreditedA group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier,...
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Twilight Saloon
as Moichiro UmedaSet in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather...
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A Slope in the Sun
as Dr. ShiozawaThe young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro...
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祇園物語 春怨
as uncreditedThe story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful...
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A Thousand Standards of Stone
as TetsugorôA film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi...
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Turbid Youth
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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Five Scouts
as uncreditedAn early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of...
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Sun over the River
as Kentaro's fatherFather, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their...
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Golden Valley
as uncreditedA samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored...
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Explosion!
as uncredited"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five...
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Metropolitan Symphony
as MotozoA young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic...
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Unending Advance
as uncreditedOne of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu,...
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Jigoku no hatoba
as uncreditedA battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere....
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Theater
as uncreditedKotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
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Exiled to Hell
as Iwamatsu KoisoIt is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the...
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
as Tôhô TaniKawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has...
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
as Oba KumakuraSangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send...
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Delinquent Girl
as uncreditedA melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the...
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Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
as uncreditedFilm about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
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Crazy Jailbreak
as Fukazawa, policemanA prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
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