​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michiyo Kogure (Kogure Michiyo?) (31 January 1918 – 13 June 1990) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1939 and 1984. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as the headstrong housewife who begins to tire of her dull, earnest husband in The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michiyo Kogure, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.