Trivia

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.

He came to prominence in tendency films such as Ikeru ningyo (1929).

His son was the composer Taichiro Kosugi, who did the music for Cyborg 009.

In 1937, he starred in the German-Japanese co-production, Atarashiki tsuchi (aka Die Tochter des Samurai), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami.