Isamu Kosugi
Birthday: 1904-02-24
Place of Birth: Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Biography: Isamu Kosugi (小杉 勇, Kosugi Isamu, 24 February 1904 – 8 April 1983) was a Japanese actor and film director.
Movies
Sun over the River
Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their lov...
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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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Zesshou
The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter...
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The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
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Island of Horrors
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the oth...
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Saigo no totsugeki
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The ori...
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A Thousand Standards of Stone
A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama...
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I Am Waiting
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...
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Earth
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to p...
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Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a si...
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure...
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Police Officer
Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they ...
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Exiled to Hell
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous ...
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The Daughter of the Samurai
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Ger...
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The Grand Master
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
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Metropolitan Symphony
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker...
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has take...
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祇園物語 春怨
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful lov...
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G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack
A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable b...
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Mud and Soldiers
A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Nor...
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Kōfuku no genkai
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along ...
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Twilight Saloon
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in...
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Five Scouts
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda...
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A Slope in the Sun
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family ...
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Delinquent Girl
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic...
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Unending Advance
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in ...
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A Living Puppet
A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge....
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Tokyo March
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic ...
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Hungry Soul
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a b...
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him t...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a m...
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The Naked Town
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao...
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Golden Valley
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shin...
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Explosion!
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, T...
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Jigoku no hatoba
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manz...
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The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history...
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Farewell, Innocence
The story follows privileged college students who secretly work part-time at a beauty salon, amidst ...
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Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
Ainu chieftain Otena Kamui dies leaving a secret to his son. Years later, the grown son and his chil...
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