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...
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Kiki's Delivery Service
as Old Lady (voice)A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community...
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks")A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of...
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A Thousand and One Nights
as Genie (voice)Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...
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About Her Brother
as Takano KinuoGinko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing,...
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Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
as TakakoA shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he...
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Pistol Opera
as Shizuka OrikuchiAn assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by...
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Shinibana
as Sadako TōyamaAfter the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled...
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Deaths in Tokimeki
as Otae-sanDeaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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Something Like It
as uncreditedLife seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first...
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Sharaku
as OfujiA crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...
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Gonza the Spearman
as Oyuki's nannyThe tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which...
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The Wild Daisy
as Kiku SaitoSaito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of...
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Tasmania Story
as uncreditedEiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
as Kinu AkabaneRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
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The Girl I Abandoned
as uncreditedTsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...
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Capone Cries a Lot
as WifeUmiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of...
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Love in the Mud
as uncreditedThis is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in...
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Bonds
as Mrs. SogaTetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to...
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East China Sea
as Rokurō's motherRokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the...
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Chameleon
as uncreditedKeiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
as uncreditedA young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
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Awakening
as Shigeko MiyasatoAfter the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy...
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Caribe: Symphony of Love
as Fumiko SawakiSet in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan
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Seasonal Wind
as uncreditedShinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his...
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The Dancer
as uncreditedBased on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes...
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Body and Soul
as uncreditedYoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share...
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The Crying Wind
as Shiho FujinoSeikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his...
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Spy Sorge
as uncreditedA foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
as uncreditedWhile trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of...
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Gray Sunset
as Kikuyo TakanoGrandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when...
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Sweet Revenge
as Yoshiko OtsukaMasao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of...
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
as uncreditedA woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three...
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Life Is Journey
as uncreditedLIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn...
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Green Fruit
as uncreditedTwo sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former...
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Let'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...
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Sword and Flower
as uncreditedMasuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari)...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
as Tomie KawamuraHeartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...
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Flower Picking Diary
as uncreditedBased on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different...
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若い川の流れ
as uncreditedThe story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department...
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Kimi 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.
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Furuhata Ninzaburo
as Takayo SasakiFuruhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from...
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Time Limit Investigator
as uncreditedShūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...
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Veterinarian Dolittle
as uncreditedTottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase...
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Yumechiyo Nikki
as uncreditedThis is a human drama that captures the lives of Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam who has been...
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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
as uncreditedThrough the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...
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Ashura no Gotoku
as uncreditedKuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that...
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Kyukei no Koya
as Takako NogamiBased on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the...
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