Yoshio Kosugi Movies

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Sequel to "真実の愛情を求めて　何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

1964 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...