Toshie Kusunoki

Acting

Toshie Kusunoki

Born

1928-01-11 (98)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 15 titles

Vagabonds from Badgerville poster
8.5

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

Vagabonds from Badgerville

1961

Traveling in Party poster
6.0

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Traveling in Party

1967

A Laughable Journey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Laughable Journey

1964

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind poster
NR

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

1961

New Year Trip poster
7.0

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

New Year Trip

1968

The Spiders' The Road to Bali poster
7.0

The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll!

The Spiders' The Road to Bali

1968

The Rickshaw Man’s Son poster
8.0

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.

The Rickshaw Man’s Son

1967

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush poster
NR

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush

1960

A Circus Girl poster
NR

Japanese drama film.

A Circus Girl

1966

Express Train poster
6.0

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that occur along the way. A comedic drama revolving around the lives of those who ride the express train.

Express Train

1967

Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous poster
6.2

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!

Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous

1960

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi poster
NR

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi

1960

The Spiders: Big Commotion! poster
10.0

The Spiders arrive back in Tokyo and end up in a car accident with a beautiful fan, Yuko, who the lead singers fall in love with while she convalesces at the Hospital.

The Spiders: Big Commotion!

1968

Warera no yūjō poster
NR

1966 Japanese movie

Warera no yūjō

1966

Yosakoi sandogasa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yosakoi sandogasa

1960

1950s · 17 titles

Yōkina nakama poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yōkina nakama

1958

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: hachi-nin no hanayome poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: hachi-nin no hanayome

1958

The Tears of Geisha Konatsu poster
NR

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

The Tears of Geisha Konatsu

1955

The Footmark of a Snow Fairy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Footmark of a Snow Fairy

1958

The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl

1956

Enchanted Princess poster
6.5

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasols, they were wrongly brought to the Racoon Palace, where the young racoon princess (also Ayako Wakao) made a mess of her arranged marriage with the beautiful racoon prince (Raizô Ichikawa). Pretty princess ran away. In order not to spoil the promising marriage, people tried to make use of resemblances between Okuro and the princess. Before long, Okuro and the Prince fell in love with each other...

Enchanted Princess

1959

The Lord and the Gambler poster
10.0

Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.

The Lord and the Gambler

1959

Points and Lines poster
6.2

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.

Points and Lines

1958

Husband on the Run poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Husband on the Run

1954

Tokyo Detective Girl poster
NR

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.

Tokyo Detective Girl

1959

The Tokyo Dame poster
9.0

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.

The Tokyo Dame

1959

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival poster
NR

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival

1954

Megitsune Buro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Megitsune Buro

1958

Muttsuri Umon's Detective Stories: The Demon Mask Mansion poster
7.0

1955 Japanese movie

Muttsuri Umon's Detective Stories: The Demon Mask Mansion

1955

Bakeneko Goyōda poster
NR

A comic thriller directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, a first-time newcomer, based on a screenplay by Toshio Tamikado, who co-wrote "Nukiashisashi Ashi Shinobiashi." Photographed by Chikichiro Takeda of "Nurekami Kenpo." The music is by Han Takahashi of "Nukiashisashiashishininashi". Shoji Umewaka, Mieko Kondo, Daimaru Luckett and others

Bakeneko Goyōda

1958

Turbulent Highways poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Turbulent Highways

1959

A Long Comic Story-Houses' Ghost Affairs poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Long Comic Story-Houses' Ghost Affairs

1954

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