Yōko Katsuragi
Actor · 1930 – 2007 · Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Movie8.0DramaNoriko 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.
Movie6.9DramaA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Movie6.0DramaIn the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
MovieEach 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.
MovieDramaThe 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.
Movie6.7ComedyDramaWhen 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.
Movie5.8DramaAt 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.
MovieDrama
Movie9.0Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
Movie4.5CrimeDramaAfter witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
Movie5.4DramaA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Movie9.0DramaThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
Movie6.7DramaThe mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA 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.
Movie5.5Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.
MovieActionJoe 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).
Movie9.0ComedyAlso known as Crazy Uproar.
Movie5.8DramaThe 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.
MovieA Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.