Acting
Misufumi Kosugi
Acting credits
NRIn this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Asakusa monogatari
1953
NRDue to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
Haha chidori
1951
NRSanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.
Okore Sanpei
1953
NRA comedy about newlyweds.
Shinkon noroke bushi
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hanayome hanamuko chanbara bushi
1952
NRWith his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.
Daigaku no kotengu
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952
NRA passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life are on the line.
Hida no ko tengu
1951
NRDeep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized crime. In the bribery case involving his old college friend Ayao, he had sought a two-year prison sentence in accordance with the law. Ayao took his own life, and his family was torn apart by the world’s persecution.
Kenji to onnakanshu
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Port of Tears
1949
Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly in the child’s hand.
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
1950
A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.
Doro ni mamirete
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kyūjō hiroba
1951
NRA judo movie.
Omokage Sanshiro
1949
Yoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and Hanayama—and centered around Yumi, the beautiful dancer who serves as their mascot—they form a poor but cheerful group of five.
Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuru
1950
NRMedical student Makoto Tachibana took advantage of his summer break to visit Sado Island, the hometown of his best friend Tago. Tago was the son of the owner of a ryokan in Ryotsu Port on Sado, and his younger sister, the aspiring singer Chieko, had also come to the island. The day Makoto arrived on the island was the opening ceremony for the Ryōtsu River, and the entire town was buzzing with the Okesa dance. That night, Chieko introduced Makoto to Fumiyo, whom she had noticed on the ferry and had been curious about. Although Makoto and Fumiyo were attracted to each other, her grandfather and older brother vehemently opposed their relationship.
Sado Island Elegy
1952
NRA story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.
Nanatsu no seiza
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arashi no naka no shimai
1949
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Sea of Beauty
1950
Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry Yukiko, his father’s niece, whom the hospital director had arranged for him to wed, and eventually ran away from home to live alone in an apartment. However, following his father’s sudden death, Tsutsui, a newly rich man who had invested heavily in Sakai Hospital, was plotting to seize control of the hospital by taking advantage of the situation.
Hana no jitsugetsu
1949
8.0Comedy drama film
The Red Water
1963