Michiyo Kogure
Acting • Born 1918-01-31 – Died 1990-06-13
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 screen debut in 1939. She worked for directors such as Hiroshi Shimizu, Heinosuke Gosho and Kōzaburō Yoshimura, before following her husband to Manchuria in 1944. Upon her return two years later, she starred again in films by Shochiku, but also Toho, Daiei and other studios, and repeatedly appeared in films by Mizoguchi and Shimizu. She received the 1949 Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Aoi sanmyaku. In addition to her appearances in films and commercials, Kogure volunteered in charity work. In 1976, she was awarded the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon.
Filmography
145 credits
The Fourth Lady
Movie • 1948
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Movie • 1967
Otami
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie • 1955
Lady Yoshino
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Yoshino (uncredited)
A Lonely Gamble
Movie • 1965
Tazuko Ogaki
Drunken Angel
Movie • 1948
Nanae
Kaisen no Zenya
Movie • 1943
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Hanae
A Geisha
Movie • 1953
Miyoharu
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Movie • 1950
Yuki Shinano
Taira Clan Saga
Movie • 1955
Yasuko
Shinran
Movie • 1960
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Movie • 1952
Taeko Satake
Orders from Hell
Movie • 1964
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Movie • 1949
Umetaro
Surging Waves
Movie • 1939
Divorce
Movie • 1952
Michiko Sôma
Mother is Strong
Movie • 1939
Women at War
Movie • 1939
A Certain Woman
Movie • 1942
Torrent of a Big City
Movie • 1940
Otoko no iki
Movie • 1942
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
Movie • 1962
Four Love Stories
Movie • 1947
Winter Jasmine
Movie • 1942
Passion Fire
Movie • 1952
合羽屋おらく
Hanran
Movie • 1954
Denshichi Torimonocho: Vampire Spider
Movie • 1955
お千代
In Search of Mother
Movie • 1962
Ohama
A Man Explodes
Movie • 1959
Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
Movie • 1962
A Boy and Three Mothers
Movie • 1958
Keiko, The Mother-in-Law
続南国太平記 薩南の嵐
Movie • 1954
Nangoku Taiheiki
Movie • 1954
The Sun
Movie • 1953
Sisters of Gion
Movie • 1956
疾風愛憎峠
Movie • 1954
直八子供旅
Movie • 1958
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Movie • 1949
Kaze no uchi so to
Movie • 1959
Thirty-three footprints
Movie • 1948
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Fujitsubo
Shinran, Part II
Movie • 1960
Marriage of the sky and the sea
Movie • 1962
Way of Morning Mist
Movie • 1961
Ogin
Golden Devil
Movie • 1948
Golden Devil Part 2
Movie • 1948
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Movie • 1979
Kuniko
Four and A Half Mats
Movie • 1966
Taneko Tachibana
Freelance Samurai
Movie • 1957
Kosuzu Hanabusa
A Carpenter and Children
Movie • 1962
Yūkyō no mure
Movie • 1948
The Path of the King
Movie • 1971
Osai
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Mie Kamiya
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Movie • 1965
The 47 Masterless Samurai
Movie • 1959
Run, Genta, Run!
Movie • 1961
Hibari the Traveling Performer
Movie • 1962
紋三郎の秀
Movie • 1955
Life of Geisha
Movie • 1955
The Tale of Jiro
Movie • 1955
Oyoshi
Tokyo Profile
Movie • 1953
Michiko
Okuni and Gohei
Movie • 1952
Okuni
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Movie • 1958
Mojiwaka
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1958
Dayû Ukihashi
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
Movie • 1962
Ayako
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Movie • 1959
Official with a Tattoo
Movie • 1960
Ohan
Kanbi no san-tō shain
Movie • 1961
Nobuko Furukawa
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
Movie • 1942
47 Vendettas
Movie • 1953
Riku
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Movie • 1949
Umetaro
A Night in Hong Kong
Movie • 1961
Yoshiko Matsuyama
A House in the Quarter
Movie • 1963
Katsue
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Movie • 1963
Oko
Wood and Stone
Movie • 1940
Eriko Oikawa
Dances of Flame
Movie • 1978
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Movie • 1972
Osei
Stop the Old Fox
Movie • 1959
Omiyo no kata
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie • 1975
Self
Miyamoto Musashi
Movie • 1961
Oko
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Movie • 1962
Okou
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Female Ninja Magic
Movie • 1964
Afuku
The Ako Retainers
Movie • 1961
Reminiscence
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Ota
Gambler's Legacy
Movie • 1969
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Movie • 1966
Suzuko
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Movie • 1965
Oko
Sanbaba
Movie • 1974
The Black Cat
Movie • 1965
Eleven Gangsters
Movie • 1963
Miwa Yamanouchi
Souls in the Moonlight II
Movie • 1958
Otoku
Dôkoku
Movie • 1952
Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Movie • 1971
Otaki
Pure White Nights
Movie • 1951
Flowery Brothers
Movie • 1956
Karate Cop 3
Movie • 1984
Nerves for Victory
Movie • 1966
Her Hidden Past
Movie • 1962
Koyoshi
Night School
Movie • 1956
Senta's mother (uncredited)
The Red Shadow
Movie • 1961
Hahakage
Madcap Mixup
Movie • 1969
Otama
Lovers' Duet
Movie • 1939
Gambler: Victory Without Death
Movie • 1967
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Yasuko Chiba, prisoner
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Movie • 1961
The White Orchid
Movie • 1951
Lady From Hell
Movie • 1949
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1956
Somehachi
Sound in the Mist
Movie • 1956
Tsuruko
Spring Thunder
Movie • 1939
Eiko Tōjō
Yataro’s Travel Hat
Movie • 1957
The Magnificent Five
Movie • 1958
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie • 1960
Tales of the Inner Chamber
Movie • 1968
Exterminate the Young Boss!
Movie • 1967
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Movie • 1966
Sue
Speed Crazy
Movie • 1959
The Swordsman In The Golden Valley
Movie • 1960
Castle of Revenge
Movie • 1952
The Blue Revolution
Movie • 1953
Yurusareta ichiya
Movie • 1946
The Red Bat
Movie • 1958
Probation
Movie • 1950
Homecoming
Movie • 1950
Migratory Birds of the Flowers
Movie • 1956
Flowers of Patriotism
Movie • 1942
Dawn Chorus
Movie • 1941
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Movie • 1960
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Movie • 1963
Okume Tamaki
Story of Lightning
Movie • 1951
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Movie • 1957
鳴門秘帖
Movie • 1961
The Sharks
Movie • 1964
遙かなる母の顔
Movie • 1960
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
Movie • 1957
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
Movie • 1961
若い涙を吹きとばせ
Movie • 1961
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Movie • 1982
Azusa
A Woman's Fight
Movie • 1949
女の宿
Movie • 1941
Taeko Noguchi
Oka wa hanazakari
Movie • 1952
Night Holds a Truth
Movie • 1957
Tokugawa no Onnatachi
TV • 1980