Acting
Misufumi Kosugi
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
NRA heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.
Kenta to kurotai sensei
1957
NRAs the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated crime? A unique thriller that will have you laughing and shivering at the same time.
Ikinokotta benten-sama
1952
NRKenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.
Ganbare! Kenta
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Horeruna Yanpachi
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kimi machifune
1954
NRA high school student who loves detective stories finds himself transporting a woman’s body in the middle of the night. A hilarious thriller about a group of six close friends who form a “Murder Club”.
Kōkōsei to satsujinhan
1956
Film credits
1960s · 10 titles
7.3On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Seisaku's Wife
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tōkyō no josei
1960
6.3On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
Afraid to Die
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wings of Dawn
1960
NR1962 Japanese movie
Yume de aritai
1962
8.0Comedy drama film
The Red Water
1963
NR1962 Japanese movie
情熱の詩人啄木
1962
8.0A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.
Bury Me Deep
1963
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
Eriko
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chinkasai
1960
1950s · 38 titles
NRA heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.
Kenta to kurotai sensei
1957
NRAs the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated crime? A unique thriller that will have you laughing and shivering at the same time.
Ikinokotta benten-sama
1952
NRKenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.
Ganbare! Kenta
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Horeruna Yanpachi
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kimi machifune
1954
NRA high school student who loves detective stories finds himself transporting a woman’s body in the middle of the night. A hilarious thriller about a group of six close friends who form a “Murder Club”.
Kōkōsei to satsujinhan
1956
NRA young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is on the verge of falling into a life of crime. To protect him, the older brother takes up a gun once again.
Escape from Temptation
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952
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
A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official seeking to line his own pockets, alongside an ill-fated brother and sister harboring a desire for revenge.
Eki basha osowaru
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shabondama oyaji
1956
NRAn ominous skull at a wedding venue; a series of chilling, mysterious incidents befalling a wealthy man whose heads of the family have gone missing on their wedding nights; and a mysterious white-haired demon driven mad by revenge!
Ma no hanayome ishō
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Fire Department
1951
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
NRThe former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
Etajima, the Naval Academy
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Asakusa monogatari
1953
7.1Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Giants and Toys
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hanayome hanamuko chanbara bushi
1952
NRA comedy about newlyweds.
Shinkon noroke bushi
1953
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
NRSanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.
Okore Sanpei
1953
So the million-yen lottery ticket I finally won turned out to be invalid, but what about the Boston bag full of a million yen that I found in the trash? The bizarre adventures of a cheerful office worker couple.
Genkin no negoto
1956
8.0The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
The Bitch
1951
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
A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
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.
The Sea of Beauty
1950
A brutal murder in the dead of night. While the man who left bloody fingerprints and footprints screams he is innocent, the intelligent criminal, driven by greed and lust, smirks in the shadows.
Designated Criminal
1950
NRA story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.
Nanatsu no seiza
1951
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
NRDue to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
Haha chidori
1951
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
Hideki Yamaga runs a used bookstore in Ginza. He is a man known for his great physical strength, helping the weak and standing up to the strong, and is deeply respected and loved by the women of the city. Nicknamed “The Lone Wolf,” Hideki takes special care of street children. One morning, he rescues Kim Ono, a country girl who was standing there dazed with a single duffel bag, and asks Katsuko, the owner of a dressmaking shop he knows well, to hire her.
Lone Wolf
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kyūjō hiroba
1951
NRThe middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall, thought that he would go to the Kanazawa in the first place of the year and try to interrupt the white thread. Tororo Goro troupe crossed the Yabe gawa River and tried to borrow a carriage at a carriage company on the other side of the river, but he was forced by Jinya murakoshi, a charter, and started with jinrikisha without stopping.
Cascading White Threads
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Cat Knew
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Tale of a Dog: Bark, Shane
1957
1940s · 12 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arashi no naka no shimai
1949
NRA judo movie.
Omokage Sanshiro
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Port of Tears
1949
NRTomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949
NRA realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.
Platform at Night
1948
NRDepicting the International Disarmament Conference and the Japanese Navy’s Struggle.
Umi Yukaba
1943
A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.
Full Moon
1949
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
A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.
You Are Being Targeted
1942
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
NREnoken's first film at Daiei.
Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai
1948
NRMysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
The Man From Chungking
1943
