
A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michiyo Kogure
Gambler: Victory Without Death / Bakuchi-uchi: Fujimi no shôbu (1967) Shigehiro Ozawa, Hiromi Fujiyama, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Michiyo Kogure

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA “Dynamite Tsune” is a talented gambler, but not infallable. Read More »
Okuni to Gohei (1952) Mikio Naruse, Michiyo Kogure, Tomoemon Otani, Sô Yamamura

Kogure is the widow of an assassinated samurai and Otani was that man’s pupil. Read More »
A Geisha (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu

In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
Yuki fujin ezu / Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara, Drama, Romance
Genji monogatari / The Tale of Genji (1951) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiyo Kogure, Machiko Kyô, Drama

Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks Read More »

