Haruko Katō
Haruko Katō (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress. Haruko Katō was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After training at acting school, she was signed up with the film production company Toho in 1939, debuting in Hanatsumi Nikki in the same year.
Howl's Moving Castle
as Madame Suliman (voice)Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and...
Movie pageKiki's Delivery Service
as Old Lady (voice)A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community...
Movie pageMishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks")A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of...
Movie pageA Thousand and One Nights
as Genie (voice)Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...
Movie pagePerfect Education 4: Secret Basement
as TakakoA shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he...
Movie pagePistol Opera
as Shizuka OrikuchiAn assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by...
Movie pageA Taxing Woman's Return
as Kinu AkabaneRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
Movie pageMajutsu wa Sasayaku
as uncreditedA woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three...
Movie pageAbout Her Brother
as Takano KinuoGinko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing,...
Movie pageLove in the Mud
as uncreditedThis is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in...
Movie pageGonza the Spearman
as Oyuki's nannyThe tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which...
Movie pageChameleon
as uncreditedKeiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the...
Movie pageCapone Cries a Lot
as WifeUmiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of...
Movie pageSweet Revenge
as Yoshiko OtsukaMasao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of...
Movie pageSharaku
as OfujiA crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...
Movie pageBonds
as Mrs. SogaTetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to...
Movie pageTasmania Story
as uncreditedEiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As...
Movie pageSomeday, Someone Will Be Killed
as uncreditedWhile trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of...
Movie pageAn Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
Movie pageTokyo Blackout
as Umeko KoideBased on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped...
Movie pageA Brief Message from the Heart
as uncreditedA young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
Movie pageIt's On Me
as uncreditedNews comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki...
Movie pageAwakening
as Shigeko MiyasatoAfter the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy...
Movie pageGreen Fruit
as uncreditedTwo sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former...
Movie page若い川の流れ
as uncreditedThe story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department...
Movie pageEast China Sea
as Rokurō's motherRokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the...
Movie pageBody and Soul
as uncreditedYoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share...
Movie pageBeyond the Shining Sea
as Tomie KawamuraHeartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...
Movie pageDeaths in Tokimeki
as Otae-sanDeaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting...
Movie pageLet's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
as Shizue FunadaA young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes...
Movie pageShinibana
as Sadako TōyamaAfter the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled...
Movie pageThe Wild Daisy
as Kiku SaitoSaito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of...
Movie pageKaze to Ki to Sora to
as uncreditedA nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of...
Movie pageGray Sunset
as Kikuyo TakanoGrandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when...
Movie pageCaribe: Symphony of Love
as Fumiko SawakiSet in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan
Movie pageSeasonal Wind
as uncreditedShinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his...
Movie pageThe Dancer
as uncreditedBased on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes...
Movie pageLife Is Journey
as uncreditedLIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn...
Movie pageThe Girl I Abandoned
as uncreditedTsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...
Movie pageSpy Sorge
as uncreditedA foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...
Movie pageThe Crying Wind
as Shiho FujinoSeikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his...
Movie pageSomething Like It
as uncreditedLife seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first...
Movie pageKizu
as uncreditedOnce again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new...
Movie pageSword and Flower
as uncreditedMasuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari)...
Movie pageFlower Picking Diary
as uncreditedBased on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different...
Movie pageThe Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
as uncreditedJapanese horror movie from 1987.
Movie pageFuruhata Ninzaburo
as Takayo SasakiFuruhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from...
TV Show pageTime Limit Investigator
as uncreditedShūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...
TV Show pageKimi no na wa
as 浜口徳枝A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
TV Show pageVeterinarian Dolittle
as uncreditedTottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase...
TV Show pageAshura no Gotoku
as uncreditedKuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that...
TV Show pageYumechiyo Nikki
as uncreditedYumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When...
TV Show pageKorekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
as uncreditedThrough the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...
TV Show pageKyukei no Koya
as Takako NogamiBased on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the...
TV Show pageMarriage Begins With A Lie
as Arishima TsunekoThe story follows Ryota Mizusawa, a kitchen unit salesman, and Masumi Sakaki, a hand model and...
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