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Michiyo Kogure

Michiyo Kogure

Japanese actress (1918-1990)
January 31, 1918 (June 13, 1990)

Sound in the Mist

V.O.: Kirinone
Jap. 1956. Drama by Hiroshi Shimizu with Ken Uehara, Michiyo Kogure, Keizo Kawasaki. Every autumn, in the Japanese Alps, a botany professor reminisces about his mistress, who left him after his wife discovered their affair.
Runtime: 84 min.

Le Héros sacrilège

V.O.: Shin heike monogatari
Jap. 1955. Drama by Kenji Mizoguchi with Raizo Ichikawa, Yoshiko Kiga, Michiyo Kogure. In the seventeenth century, the son of a samurai comes to his father?s defense when the monastic authorities try to prevent his ennoblement by the emperor.
Runtime: 107 min.
Jap. 1952. Drama by Yasujiro Ozu with Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta. In the immediate post-war period, the crisis experienced by a middle-class couple, composed of a peasant's son who is a bit of a boor and his haughty wife with disappointed ambitions.
Runtime: 116 min.

Portrait of Madame Yuki

V.O.: Yuki fujin ezu
Jap. 1950. Drama by Kenji Mizoguchi with Michiyo Kogure, Koshiko Kuga, Ken Uchara. Married to a man she doesn't love, a woman remains faithful to him.
Runtime: 87 min.

Drunken Angel

V.O.: Yoidore Tenshi
Jap. 1948. Social drama by Akira Kurosawa with Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto. A doctor, who falls from grace due to alcoholism, saves the life of a young criminal and has a positive influence on him.
Runtime: 98 min.

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