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- Isamu Kosugi was born on February 24, 1904 in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for Kono taiyô - Dai ippen (1930), Keiji monogatari: Tôkyô no meiro (1960) and Zesshô (1958). He died on April 9, 1983.
- He was renowned at the time as a skilled actor with an individual style.
- He was the lead player in a series of critically acclaimed realist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the 1930s, particularly Tomu Uchida's Jinsei gekijo (1936) and Tsuchi (1939) and Tomotaka Tasaka's war films, Gonin no sekkohei (1938) and Mud and Soldiers (1939).
- Born in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Kosugi first studied at the Nihon Eiga Haiyu Gakko before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925.
- After World War II, he moved into directing, working primarily at Nikkatsu, where he filmed comedy series and action films starring Jo Shishido, while still appearing in films as an actor.
- He was a Japanese actor and film director.
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