Mitsuko Kusabue
Mitsuko Kusabue (草笛 光子, Kusabue Mitsuko, born October 22, 1933 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actress.
Jigen Daisuke
as Chiharu YaguchiFeeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds...
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Yearning
as Hisako MorizonoWar widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many...
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Yakuza Ladies 2
as Matsuyo HitobashiYuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as Mrs. TogoJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Samurai Pirate
as SobeiAn adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil...
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The Magnificent Nine
as Juzaburo’s MotherResidents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including...
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Queen Bee
as OtomiTo solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...
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0.5 mm
as Shizue MakabeSawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to...
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And Then
as uncreditedDaisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is...
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I Don't Have Any Money Left in My Retirement Account
as Yoshino GotoAtsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of...
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
as Chie's Maternal GrandmotherA young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost...
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The Thin Line
as Yumiko KatoTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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Island of Hell
as OsayoA scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
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Two in the Shadow
as AyakoA man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him...
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The Unbroken
as Masae OnchiOnchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for...
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The Inugamis
as Umeko InugamiWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...
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Oar
as OsadaDrama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as Kyôko HinatsuConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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The House of Hanging
as Junko AmamiyaThis time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
as uncreditedA woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
as Woman on the BoatToichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides...
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The Wiser Age
as UmekoDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Bonchi
as IkakoKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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4.50 from Paddington
as Suzume AmanoToko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After...
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Lullaby to Kill
as Atsuko Yura - Yasuko's MotherKôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police...
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Murder on the Orient Express
as Koshaku TodorokiThe Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
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The Phoenix
as IyoThis extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is...
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
as uncreditedA young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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HOME
as Sumiyo TakahashiWhen Koichi Takahasi (Miutani) is transferred from Tokyo to a small village in Iwate Prefecture,...
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Star of Hong Kong
as Boss SanaeWang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has...
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Dendera
as Mei MitsuboshiFifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to...
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The Angry Sea
as KatsuA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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Nogare no machi
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kaoru TaniSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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The Wangan Highway
as Ikuko SugimotoBased on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
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Happiness of Us Alone
as Nobuko, Akiko's sisterThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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She-Shogun
as uncreditedThe rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's...
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The Big Boss
as RieRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in...
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Rampaging Dog
as uncreditedAbare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
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The Paradise Island Story
as uncreditedMusical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
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Abacus and Sword
as ObabasamaSet during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation...
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Hana no Oedo no Musekinin
as uncreditedA comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by...
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
as Tokiko HongoShinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the...
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City of Love
as Miyako MorimotoAiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and...
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A Night in Hong Kong
as Yu LanRomantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a...
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This Greedy Old Skin
as HatsueA kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy...
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Walking with My Grandma
as Kiyo TakayamaNatsumi is proposed to by Yamato, a man who aims to become a fisherman to succeed his father....
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The Dangerous Kiss
as uncreditedStarring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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Nippon Irresponsible Guy
as uncreditedSequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
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Whirlwind
as Kozato's AuntSet at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the...
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Edo no yubae
as お蝶In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate...
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Angel's Ladder
as uncreditedTenshi no Hashigo 2006 (Japan), also known as Angel's Ladder is Japan drama premiere on Oct 22,...
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Lonely Heart
as uncreditedA police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying...
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Proof of the Man
as uncreditedIn Tokyo, 1974, a young African American is found dead in a lift. A knife is stuck deep into his...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
as 女房お俊One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya,...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Vampire Spider
as お俊In the town of Izu known for its hot springs, Den Shichi from Kuromon Town sets off for a...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
as uncreditedA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with...
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What the Snow Brings
as Shizuko YazakiFollowing a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu"...
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Ejima and Ikushima
as 宇津This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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Chain of Flowers
as Rika's grandmotherBased upon the novel by Minato Kanae. The story is about three women who all live in the same...
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The Naked Executive
as Bar ownerThe executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work",...
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Beyond the Hills
as Yoshiko MurataStory of young love in the hills.
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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Travels of Lord Mito
as OmanIn the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to...
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Born in Sin
as uncreditedA dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
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On Wings of Love
as Eiko ItakuraOn Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was...
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伝七捕物帖 花嫁小判
as お俊Den Shichi of Kurodomon-chō, the best detective in Edo, captured members of a thief gang called...
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The Best Playboy In Japan
as Yuki SakuraThe music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school,...
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Kaseki no Hohoemi
as Izawa SachikoMiyahara Kazuya has a phobia of touching dirty things and people because of being bullied during...
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The Enchanting Devil
as uncreditedThriller directed by Seiji Maruyama
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伝七捕物帖 美女蝙蝠
as uncreditedThe head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board)...
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Adults Cannot Understand - Record of Youth
as uncreditedThe first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son,...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Midori NinomiyaDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Mayuko hitori
as 加野三輪子Kano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when...
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Dondo Hare
as Kagami KatsunoNatsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her...
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Toshiie and Matsu
as NakaThe 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's...
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Mare
as Robert YukieMare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before...
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Miotsukushi
as Tone YoshitakeIn the early Showa era, the town of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture was divided by the conflicts...
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He Who Can't Marry
as Ikuyo KuwanoKekkon dekinai otoko, known in English as He Who Can't Marry, is a 2006 Japanese drama broadcast...
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Beauty or Beast
as uncreditedThis drama pits two protagonists against each other. On the one hand there's Makoto, a woman who...
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HOTEL -NEXT DOOR-
as Ohara MaikoSet in the present era of intensified hotel competition and depicts the decline and crisis of...
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The Beautiful Neighbor
as Yano MitsukoA sudden encounter between a gracefully attractive but mysterious woman, Saki, and an ordinary...
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Garden of the Wind
as Harue UeharaThe lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was...
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Keisei Saimin no Otoko
as KiyoA 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment...
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Second Virgin
as Shugetsu MagakiSecond Virgin is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NHK in 2010. Nakamura Rui is...
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Destiny-Like Love
as Fujii AkariDuring their childhood, a little girl and a boy made a pledge to meet again. Now at the age of...
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Presumed Guilty
as Kanae OtaJournalist Kayama Seiji who is covering the war zone, gets shocking news that Shinozuka Yoshio,...
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Priest of Darkness
as OtakiKōchiyama Sōshun serves as a cha-bōzu (He is kind of tea man) in the administrative headquarters...
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Iki no Iiyatsu
as uncreditedSet in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a...
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The Good Listener
as Ume MizusawaUndercover cop Sakura Mizusawa assumes many faces as she teams up with a hot-blooded detective,...
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Netchū Jidai
as uncreditedThis light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and...
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Sono Onna, Jiruba
as uncredited40-year-old Usui Arata had worked as a salesperson for her dream company but right before her...
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Akai Shougeki
as uncreditedA track and field athlete falls in love with a cop, but...
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Sunny for Tomorrow
as Suzuki HisaySet in a town called Sasara, strange events occur one after the other. The episodes in this...
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Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
as uncreditedKindaichi becomes involved in the case of an actress whose husbands keep dying mysteriously —...
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