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Yōko Katsuragi

Yōko Katsuragi

Acting

Biography

Yōko Katsuragi (桂木洋子, Katsuragi, Yōko, 6 April 1930 – March 2007) was a Japanese actress active from 1948 to 1963. She appeared mostly in films of the Shochiku film studios, often under the direction of Keisuke Kinoshita.

Known For

Late Spring
8.0

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.

Late Spring

1949
Scandal
6.9

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Scandal

1950
新婚たくあん夫婦
N/A

No description available.

新婚たくあん夫婦

1954
A Secret Rendezvous
4.5

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.

A Secret Rendezvous

1959
Fountainhead
6.0

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Fountainhead

1956
Black River
6.9

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Black River

1957
A Japanese Tragedy
5.8

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.

A Japanese Tragedy

1953
Ushiwakamaru
N/A

No description available.

Ushiwakamaru

1952
Broken Drum
6.7

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.

Broken Drum

1949
Beauty of Life
10.0

Inochi uruwashi

Beauty of Life

1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
5.4

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Fireworks Over the Sea

1951
Face in the Dark
N/A

Japanese suspense film.

Face in the Dark

1958
Glass-Hearted Johnny
N/A

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).

Glass-Hearted Johnny

1962
The Tattered Wings
6.2

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.

The Tattered Wings

1955
Chutaro of Banba
5.0

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.

Chutaro of Banba

1955
Apostasy
6.0

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Apostasy

1948
Heso no taisho
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Heso no taisho

1962
The Good Fairy
5.8

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

The Good Fairy

1951
Disobedience
8.0

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.

Disobedience

1958
The Portrait
6.7

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

The Portrait

1948