Michiyo Kogure — Actor (40)
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In Search of Mother (1962)
瞼の母 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: 瞼の母
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding her and leaving the swordsman's life behind. But a team of rival gangsters is hot on his heels.
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Hibari the Traveling Performer (1962)
ひばりの母恋いギター IMDb TMDB
Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Hibari Misora / Eitarō Shindō …
other title: ひばりの母恋いギター
Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickly dashed as her father, having married into a wealthy family, wants nothing to do with her. Will Kimie be able to regain her father’s love?
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Souls in the Moonlight II (1958)
大菩薩峠 第二部 IMDb TMDB
Tomu Uchida actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Michiyo Kogure …
other title: Le Passage du grand Bouddha II / 大菩薩峠 第二部
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
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Okuni and Gohei (1952)
お國と五平
Mikio Naruse actor: Michiyo Kogure / Tomiemon Otomo …
other title: Okuni et Gohei / Okuni y Gohei …
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
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Sound in the Mist (1956)
霧の音 IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ken Uehara / Michiyo Kogure …
other title: O Som do Nevoeiro / Le Chant de la brume …
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...