Michiyo Kogure

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1918-01-31 (72 years old)

Deathday

1990-06-13

Place of Birth

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Michiyo Kogure

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michiyo Kogure (木暮実千代, Kogure Michiyo) (31 January 1918 – 13 June 1990) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in nearly 200 films in a career which spanned 45 years, starring in works by Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and others. Film historian Donald Richie once called her "one of Japan's most versatile actresses, and perhaps the most intellectual of all in her approach to acting." Michiyo Kogure was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from Nihon University in 1940. While still a student, she joined the Shochiku film studios and gave her...

Acting

1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

as Yoshino (uncredited)

1965

A Lonely Gamble

as Tazuko Ogaki

1948

1956

1953

A Geisha

as Miyoharu

1950

1955

1952

Divorce

as Michiko Sôma

1952

Passion Fire

as 合羽屋おらく

1954

1958

A Boy and Three Mothers

as Keiko, The Mother-in-Law

1951

The Tale of Genji

as Fujitsubo

1966

Four and A Half Mats

as Taneko Tachibana

1957

Freelance Samurai

as Kosuzu Hanabusa

1951

1955

1953

Tokyo Profile

as Michiko

1952

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin

as Dayû Ukihashi

1961

寛美の三等社員

as Nobuko Furukawa

1953

1961

A Night in Hong Kong

as Yoshiko Matsuyama

1940

Wood and Stone

as Eriko Oikawa

1959

Stop the Old Fox

as Omiyo no kata

1964

1953

Reminiscence

as Mrs. Ota

1963

Eleven Gangsters

as Miwa Yamanouchi

1962

Her Hidden Past

as Koyoshi

1956

Night School

as Senta's mother (uncredited)

1961

The Red Shadow

as Hahakage

1969

Madcap Mixup

as Otama

1956

Women in Prison

as Yasuko Chiba, prisoner

1956

Tsukigata Hanpeita

as Somehachi

1956

1939

Spring Thunder

as Eiko Tōjō

1963

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