Kusuo Abe was born on July 24, 1910 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan as Ishitaro Ito. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Vivre (1952), La Légende de Musashi Miyamoto (1961) and Seul contre tous à Ichijoji (1964). He died on November 2, 1965 in Kyoto, Japan.