Yoshio Kosugi
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.
Seven Samurai
as MosukeA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
Movie pageSanshiro Sugata
as Master Saburo KodamaThe story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn...
Movie pageKing Kong vs. Godzilla
as Farou Island ChiefThe advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their...
Movie pageThe Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as (uncredited)After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
Movie pageThe Hidden Fortress
as Soldier (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
Movie pageMothra
as Ship CaptainShipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific...
Movie pageKing Kong vs. Godzilla
as Faro Island Chief (uncredited)When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong...
Movie pageGhidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Chief of Infant Island (uncredited)After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla...
Movie pageSamurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as (uncredited)Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...
Movie pageMothra vs. Godzilla
as Infant Island ChiefJournalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found...
Movie pageFrankenstein Conquers the World
as JSDF ExecutiveDuring WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to...
Movie page47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
Movie pageJapan's Longest Day
as Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke OkadeFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
Movie pageThe Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
as SurugaYoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as...
Movie pageThe Mysterians
as Cmdr. SugimotoIn Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an...
Movie pageSnow Trail
as TakasugiThree bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains....
Movie pageHalf Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Circus OwnerAn American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...
Movie pageSamurai Pirate
as Captain of Thai shipAn adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil...
Movie pageYoung Swordsman
as uncreditedThis Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were...
Movie pageThe Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
Movie pageAttack Squadron
as Destroyer CaptainLt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He...
Movie pageThe Human Vapor
as Mean DetectiveA librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The...
Movie pageThe Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
as uncreditedHistorical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Movie pageSword for Hire
as uncreditedSoldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...
Movie pageSwift Current
as uncreditedThe film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase...
Movie pageGinza Cosmetics
as Eijirô KasaiA luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
Movie pageDaredevil in the Castle
as Gidayu FujimotoDuring the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...
Movie pageA Man in the Storm
as uncreditedJudo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with...
Movie pageA Holiday in Tokyo
as uncreditedMay Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...
Movie pageThe Gambling Samurai
as TokisaburoChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
Movie pageThe Eagle of the Pacific
as (uncredited)Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
Movie pageHalf Human
as ObaThree competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...
Movie pageSaga of the Vagabonds
as uncreditedLord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men,...
Movie pageThe Lone Journey
as IwataroForced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...
Movie pageElegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
Movie pageThe Skin of the South
as NonakaWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...
Movie pageYagyu Secret Scrolls
as uncreditedIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
Movie pageJakoman and Tetsu
as uncreditedIn a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
Movie pageLife of a Country Doctor
as uncreditedA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...
Movie pageAn Edoite Judge
as Tatsuma HayasePeriod film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
Movie pageTokyo Sweetheart
as uncreditedFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
Movie pageMan of the House
as TounThis film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his...
Movie pageSky of Hope
as Maple Leaf ManWhat is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited...
Movie pageShanghai Landing Party
as uncreditedThis film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an...
Movie pageThe Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
as King of DevilsThe mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of...
Movie pageThe Last Gunfight
as Chief Officer OkuboJapanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the...
Movie pageHorse
as Zenzo SakumaIne Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes...
Movie pageWhirlwind
as uncreditedSet at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the...
Movie pageRise Against the Sword
as GonjiFarmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight...
Movie pageThe Battle of Kawanakajima
as Kansuke YamamotoThis epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story...
Movie pageMusashibo Benkei
as uncreditedA 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior...
Movie pageBlood on the Sea
as uncreditedFour fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Movie pageSo Young, So Bright
as uncreditedTwo high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted...
Movie pageThe Youth and His Amulet
as uncreditedGen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the...
Movie pageSasaki Kojiro
as uncreditedDirector Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro....
Movie pageThe White Orchid
as uncreditedA Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Movie pageThe Legend of the White Serpent
as Official ALavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...
Movie pageThe Giant
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from...
Movie pageJirocho Begins His Roving Life
as uncreditedJirocho the gambler hits the road.
Movie pageThe Surf
as JukichiLonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....
Movie pageAll About Marriage
as Hisako's FatherUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...
Movie pageFour Seasons of Women
as Lord of the cabaretWoman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Movie pageStory of Leadership
as uncreditedIn this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is...
Movie pageOperation Mad Dog
as uncreditedFilm number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
Movie pageHideko the Cheerleader
as Ichiro Takashima, Hideko's fatherHideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a...
Movie pageBrother and Sister
as uncreditedIno tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a...
Movie pageThe Life of a Horse Trader
as uncreditedThe tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's...
Movie pageMadame Butterfly
as BonzeJapanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.
Movie page人生とんぼ返り
as uncreditedAfter learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the...
Movie pageSwords and Brocade
as uncreditedA young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
Movie pageKarayuki-san
as uncredited"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former...
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