Yoshio Kosugi Movies

The fourth and final "Comic Storyteller" feature.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

While conducting a crackdown on contraband cigarettes at Ueno Station, inspector Tetsuro Shibuya came across an envelope addressed to Misa Makihara...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's...

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

A dramatisation of the 24-hour period in which the Japanese government was deadlocked over the decision to accept or reject the Allies' demand for an...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility....

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...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.