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Yoshio Kosugi

Japanese actor (1903–1968)

Yoshio Kosugi was a Japanese actor who appeared in more than 120 films between 1924 and 1967. His credits included Akira Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, and the Toho monster films Mothra vs. Godzilla and Frankenstein Conquers the World.

Yoshio Kosugi appears in 4 films in The Rerun, from 1943 to 1965. Most of that work is in sci-fi, drama and horror. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Susumu Fujita (4), Takashi Shimura (3), Ishirō Honda (2), Kenji Sahara (2), Haruo Nakajima (2).

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Quick answers

What movies and TV shows has Yoshio Kosugi been in?
Yoshio Kosugi appears in Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1952) and Sanshiro Sugata (1943) on The Remote.
When was Yoshio Kosugi born?
Yoshio Kosugi was born on 15 September 1903.

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