Yōko Katsuragi — Actor (14)
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Chutaro of Banba (1955)
番場の忠太郎 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: 番場の忠太郎
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.
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The Seasons of Love (1958)
四季の愛欲 IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Isuzu Yamada / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 四季の愛欲
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.
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A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
日本の悲劇 IMDb TMDB
Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Yūko Mochizuki / Keiji Sada …
other title: Una tragedia giapponese / La Tragédie du Japon …
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.
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Battle of Roses (1950)
薔薇合戦 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Mikio Naruse actor: Kuniko Miyake / Setsuko Wakayama …
other title: La Bataille de roses / Batalla de rosas …
Following the death of Mr Masago, his wife Satomi loses the family's cosmetics company to Mr Mogy due to huge amount of withdrawal debt caused by her husband. Mogy blackmails Satomi's sister Hinako into marrying him, so he will not send Masago to jail, and Satomi wrongly understands that Hinako is dating Mogy.