Yoshio Kosugi
Birthday: 1903-09-15
Place of Birth: 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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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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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 host...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Operation Mad Dog
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda...
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Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...
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Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At ...
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu
A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster...
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Man of the House
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wif...
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Life Is like a Somersault
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's ...
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The Human Vapor
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes ...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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So Young, So Bright
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hi...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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I Believe I Am Being Followed
Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and...
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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan t...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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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 la...
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Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....
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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 ...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
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Karayuki-san
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute ...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmo...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the ...
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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th...
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Samurai Pirate
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, ...
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Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
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The Giant
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Mi...
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The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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Horse
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo...
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The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god ...
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The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
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Brother and Sister
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a stude...
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Shanghai Landing Party
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an und...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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The Opium War
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in ...
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All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e...
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The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inha...
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The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Hideko the Cheerleader
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new ...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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Musashibo Benkei
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musas...
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Story of Leadership
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is cur...
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Song of the White Orchid
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colon...
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Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells hi...
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Swift Current
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam c...
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Zoku izuko e
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....
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Elephant from "Zoo Story"
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of...
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Tokyo Gate
Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, ...
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Miai Ryokou
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misu...
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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 o...
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Girls Behind Bars
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o...
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Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo T...
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Ginza Tomboy
A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for...
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A Sister's Promise
A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a docto...
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