Yōko Katsuragi — Actor (14)
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Chutaro of Banba (1955) IMDb TMDB
番場の忠太郎
director: 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) IMDb TMDB
四季の愛欲
director: 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) IMDb TMDB
日本の悲劇
director: 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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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido (1953) IMDb TMDB
夏子の冒険
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Rieko Sumi / Masao Wakahara …
other title: 夏子の冒険
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.
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Battle of Roses (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
薔薇合戦
director: 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.
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Disobedience (1958) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
親不孝通り
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: 親不孝通り / 亲不孝路 …
A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.