{{Short description|Japanese actor and director (1904–1983)}} {{BLP one source|date=September 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Isamu Kosugi<br>小杉 勇 | image = KosugiIsamu.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Isamu Kosugi in 1938 | birth_name = Sukejirō Kosugi | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1904|2|24}} | birth_place = [[Ishinomaki]], [[Miyagi Prefecture]], Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1983|4|8|1904|2|24}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor, film director | years_active = | spouse = | partner = | website = }} {{nihongo|'''Isamu Kosugi'''|小杉 勇|Kosugi Isamu|24 February 1904&nbsp;–&nbsp;8 April 1983}} was a Japanese actor and film director.

==Career== Born in [[Ishinomaki]] in [[Miyagi Prefecture]], Kosugi first studied at the [[Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō]] before joining the [[Nikkatsu]] studio in 1925.<ref name="kotobank">{{cite web|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B0%8F%E6%9D%89%E5%8B%87|title=Isamu Kosugi|work=Nihon jinmei daijiten + Plus|publisher=Kōdansha|language=Japanese|accessdate=1 January 2011|archive-date=17 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717154251/http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B0%8F%E6%9D%89%E5%8B%87|url-status=live}}</ref> He came to prominence in [[tendency film]]s such as ''[[Ikeru ningyō]]'' (1929). He was the lead player in a series of critically acclaimed realist films made at Nikkatsu's [[Tamagawa Film Studio|Tamagawa]] studio in the 1930s, particularly [[Tomu Uchida]]'s ''[[Jinsei gekijō]]'' (1936) and ''[[Tsuchi (film)|Tsuchi]]'' (1939) and [[Tomotaka Tasaka]]'s war films, ''[[Gonin no sekkōhei]]'' (1938) and ''[[Mud and Soldiers]]'' (1939). In 1937, he starred in the German-Japanese co-production, ''[[Atarashiki tsuchi]]'' (aka ''Die Tochter des Samurai''), directed by [[Arnold Fanck]] and [[Mansaku Itami]]. He was renowned at the time as a skilled actor with an individual style.<ref name="kotobank" />

After [[World War II]], he moved into directing, working primarily at Nikkatsu, where he filmed comedy series and action films starring [[Jō Shishido]], while still appearing in films as an actor. His son was the composer [[Taichirō Kosugi]], who did the music for ''[[Cyborg 009]]''.

== Selected filmography ==

=== As actor === * ''[[Tokyo March]]'' (東京行進曲, Tōkyō kōshinkyoku) (1929) * ''[[Ikeru ningyō]]'' (生ける人形) (1929) * ''[[Jinsei gekijō]]'' (人生劇場) (1936) * ''[[The Daughter of the Samurai]]'' (新しき土) (1937) * ''[[Kagirinaki Zenshin]]'' (1937) * ''[[A Pay by the Wayside|Gonin no sekkōhei]]'' (五人の斥候兵) (1938) * ''[[Robō no ishi]]'' (路傍の石) (1938) * ''[[Tsuchi (film)|Tsuchi]]'' (土) (1939) * ''[[Mud and Soldiers]]'' (土と兵隊) (1939) * ''[[The 47 Ronin (1941 film)|The 47 Ronin]]'' (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) (1941/1942) * ''[[I Am Waiting (film)|I Am Waiting]]'' (俺は待ってるぜ, Ore wa matteru ze) (1957) * ''[[Jazz musume tanjō]]'' (ジャズ娘誕生, Jazu musume tanjō) (1957) * ''[[A Slope in the Sun]]'' (陽のあたる坂道, Hi no ataru sakamichi) (1958)

=== As director === * ''[[Jiruba no tetsu]]'' (ジルバの鉄) (1950)—screenplay by [[Akira Kurosawa]] * ''[[Tokyo gorin ondo]]'' (東京五輪音頭) (1964) * ''[[Abare Kishidō]]'' (あばれ騎士道) (1965)

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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0467557}} * {{jmdb name|id=0174260|name=Kosugi Isamu}} *{{intercritique person|14667}}

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