Yoshio Kosugi

Born: 1903-09-15

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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King Kong vs. Godzilla

as Farou Island Chief (uncredited)
Released: 1963-06-26

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong...

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Seven Samurai

as Mosuke
Released: 1954-04-26

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...

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King Kong vs. Godzilla

as Farou Island Chief
Released: 1962-08-11

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their...

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Mothra vs. Godzilla

as Infant Island Chief (uncredited)
Released: 1964-04-29

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found...

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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

as Chief of Infant Island (uncredited)
Released: 1964-12-20

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla...

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The Hidden Fortress

as Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1958-12-28

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...

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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

as (uncredited)
Released: 1954-09-25

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...

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Frankenstein Conquers the World

as JSDF Executive
Released: 1965-08-08

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to...

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Sanshiro Sugata

as Master Saburo Kodama
Released: 1943-03-25

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn...

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Mothra

as Ship Captain
Released: 1961-07-30

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific...

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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

as Suruga
Released: 1952-04-24

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as...

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

as (uncredited)
Released: 1959-01-15

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...

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47 Ronin

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-03

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...

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The Rickshaw Man

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-21

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...

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The Mysterians

as Cmdr. Sugimoto
Released: 1957-12-28

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an...

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Snow Trail

as Takasugi
Released: 1947-08-05

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains....

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Japan's Longest Day

as Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade
Released: 1967-08-12

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...

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Tokyo Sweetheart

as uncredited
Released: 1952-07-15

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...

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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

as King of Devils
Released: 1959-04-19

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of...

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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

as Circus Owner
Released: 1958-12-01

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...

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The Last Gunfight

as Kojin Station Chief
Released: 1960-01-03

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the...

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The Human Vapor

as Mean Detective
Released: 1960-12-11

A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The...

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Horse

as Zenzo Sakuma
Released: 1941-03-11

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes...

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The Surf

as Jukichi
Released: 1954-10-20

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....

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The Legend of the White Serpent

as Official A
Released: 1956-06-22

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...

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Sasaki Kojiro

as uncredited
Released: 1950-12-19

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro....

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Yasugorō shusse

as uncredited
Released: 1953-04-15

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The Skin of the South

as Nonaka
Released: 1952-02-28

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...

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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

as uncredited
Released: 1953-01-09

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

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Jakoman and Tetsu

as uncredited
Released: 1949-07-11

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...

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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

as uncredited
Released: 1957-04-02

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

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All About Marriage

as Hisako's Father
Released: 1958-05-26

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...

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The Gambling Samurai

as Tokisaburo
Released: 1960-03-28

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...

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A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

as uncredited
Released: 1957-07-02

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Whirlwind

as uncredited
Released: 1964-07-26

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the...

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Yagyu Secret Scrolls

as uncredited
Released: 1957-04-14

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...

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Man of the House

as Toun
Released: 1936-06-01

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his...

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Zoku Hebihimesama

as uncredited
Released: 1940-08-14

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Attack Squadron

as Destroyer Captain
Released: 1963-01-03

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He...

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The Giant

as uncredited
Released: 1938-02-02

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from...

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Samurai Pirate

as Captain of Thai ship
Released: 1963-10-26

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil...

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A Man in the Storm

as uncredited
Released: 1957-02-05

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with...

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Half Human

as Oba
Released: 1955-08-14

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...

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Daredevil in the Castle

as Gidayu Fujimoto
Released: 1961-01-03

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...

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Her Captive Gamblers

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-03

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The Youth and His Amulet

as uncredited
Released: 1961-09-17

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the...

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The Lone Journey

as Iwataro
Released: 1955-08-31

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...

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Madama Butterfly

as Bonze
Released: 1955-06-03

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

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Four Seasons of Women

as Lord of the cabaret
Released: 1950-02-27

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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Saga of the Vagabonds

as uncredited
Released: 1959-08-09

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men,...

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Eagle of the Pacific

as (uncredited)
Released: 1953-10-21

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...

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The Maiden Courtesan

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-22

Period romantic drama.

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Subterranean Heat

as Tatsuzo
Released: 1938-02-01

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Operation Mad Dog

as uncredited
Released: 1963-09-29

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

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Jacks and Jills

as Seiji (Eriko's father)
Released: 1956-08-15

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So Young, So Bright

as uncredited
Released: 1955-11-01

Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted...

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Lovetide

as Hoshino
Released: 1955-01-09

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Ginza Cosmetics

as Eijirô Kasai
Released: 1951-04-14

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

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Their Father's Wife

as uncredited
Released: 1953-05-27

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Sword for Hire

as uncredited
Released: 1952-05-22

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...

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Kantaro of Ina

as uncredited
Released: 1943-01-03

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

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The Life of a Horse Trader

as uncredited
Released: 1951-12-07

This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiro tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The...

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The Battle of Kawanakajima

as Kansuke Yamamoto
Released: 1941-11-30

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story...

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Rise Against the Sword

as Gonji
Released: 1966-11-25

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight...

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Musashibo Benkei

as uncredited
Released: 1942-01-07

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior...

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Young Swordsman

as uncredited
Released: 1963-08-31

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were...

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Drifting

as Aikawa (a poet)
Released: 1935-06-01

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Doburoku no Tatsu

as Onishika
Released: 1962-04-29

1962 Japanese movie

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Kirare no Senta

as uncredited
Released: 1949-04-05

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Blood on the Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1961-08-13

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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Chihō kisha

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-13

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Forty-Eight Man

as Horibe Yasubee
Released: 1952-06-26

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Elegy

as uncredited
Released: 1951-02-22

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...

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Shanghai Landing Party

as uncredited
Released: 1939-05-19

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an...

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Sky of Hope

as Maple Leaf Man
Released: 1942-01-14

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited...

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Rebels on the High Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1956-08-08

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

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A Holiday in Tokyo

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-15

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...

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Life of a Country Doctor

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-14

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...

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Hideko the Cheerleader

as Ichiro Takashima, Hideko's father
Released: 1940-01-31

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a...

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The White Orchid

as uncredited
Released: 1951-03-24

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

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Brother and Sister

as uncredited
Released: 1936-06-21

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a...

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恐妻時代

as Sarumaru
Released: 1952-10-30

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Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume

as uncredited
Released: 1955-12-28

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Story of Leadership

as uncredited
Released: 1941-10-04

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is...

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人生とんぼ返り

as uncredited
Released: 1946-06-27

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the...

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Hikoroku Laughs a lot

as uncredited
Released: 1936-11-12

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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An Edoite Judge

as Tatsuma Hayase
Released: 1953-02-05

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

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