Yôko Katsuragi

Yôko Katsuragi

Birth : 1930-04-06, Tokyo, Japan

Death : 2007-03-01

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Yôko Katsuragi

Movies

The Hill is Full of Flowers
Nobuko Takabatake
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
A Secret Rendezvous
Kikuko Miyahara
After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
Umi no Chizu
Kikuko
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
Disobedience
Akie Sotozaki
A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student's sister to make him suffer the same fate.
Face in the Dark
Tadae
Japanese suspense film.
The Seasons of Love
Momoko
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
Black River
(uncredited)
The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
Typhoon
Shochiku Production on typhoon
Ai to chie no wa
Fountainhead
Kuniko Osato
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Next Door to Happiness
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.
The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
Chutaro of Banba
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.
Love and Duty
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
A Japanese Tragedy
Haruko's daughter
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Yassamossa
Тиёко Ханасаки
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.
Ushiwakamaru
Nagisa
The Waves
Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Beauty of Life
Inochi uruwashi
Fireworks Over the Sea
Miwa Kamiya
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Weeping Doll
Kimiko
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
男の哀愁
The Good Fairy
Mikako
Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
Battle of Roses
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
Crazy Uproar
Also known as Crazy Uproar.
Scandal
Masako Hiruta
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Broken Drum
Haruko
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Late Spring
Misako
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
Apostasy
Oshiho
A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.
The Portrait
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.