Setsuko Karasuma

Born: 1955-02-03

Setsuko Karasuma (烏丸 せつこ Karasuma Setsuko) is an actress and model born on 3 February 1955 in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. She attended Chukyo University, but left before finishing. She is employed by the From First Production talent agency. Karasuma made her debut as a Clarion Girl in 1980, moving quickly into the gravure idol scene. Her debut as a film actress came as she got the lead role in the 1980 adaptation of the Hiroyuki Itsuki novel Four Seasons・Natsuko.


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Ride or Die

as Ichiko Oe
Released: 2021-04-15

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the...

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

as Mitsuko (segment "Kyoko's House")
Released: 1985-09-20

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of...

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Double Life

as uncredited
Released: 2016-06-25

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by...

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64: Part 1

as Masae Hiyoshi
Released: 2016-05-07

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is...

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The Unbroken

as Mitsuko Higuchi
Released: 2009-10-23

Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for...

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Too Young To Die!

as Gozu
Released: 2016-06-25

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band...

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Station

as Suzuko Yoshimatsu
Released: 1981-11-07

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...

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64: Part 2

as Masae Hiyoshi
Released: 2016-06-01

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is...

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You've Got A Friend

as uncredited
Released: 2022-02-04

Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly...

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Living in Two Worlds

as Hiroko Suzuki
Released: 2024-09-20

Dai grows up in a small town, interpreting for his loving deaf parents, until he moves to Tokyo...

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Twilight of the Cockroaches

as Momoko
Released: 1987-11-21

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of...

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Kiyamachi Daruma

as Shizue Arai
Released: 2015-10-03

Shigeo Katsuura once led the yakuza that dominated the town of Kiya. Due to an accident, he lost...

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The Matsugane Potshot Affair

as Izumi Kuniyoshi
Released: 2007-02-24

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush...

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Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 2

as uncredited
Released: 2004-02-02

An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu...

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Manon

as Mitsuko
Released: 1981-09-26

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are...

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Young Thugs: Nostalgia

as Riichi's mother
Released: 1998-09-26

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including...

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Before Spring

as Sachiko
Released: 1980-09-20

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach...

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Tomorrow's Dining Table

as Yoshie Ishibashi
Released: 2021-05-28

3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives...

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JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest

as uncredited
Released: 2013-02-21

Two TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.

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Perhaps He Is

as uncredited
Released: 2005-10-25

A non-prolific writer, Takayama Osamu and his wife, Yoshiko, though not blessed with children,...

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Four Seasons: Natsuko

as Natsuko
Released: 1980-08-06

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in...

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Completely... With That Air!

as uncredited
Released: 1981-12-20

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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Her Island, My Island

as uncredited
Released: 2003-02-15

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

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Hokui 15° no duo

as Japanese woman living in Manila
Released: 1991-03-23

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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II

as uncredited
Released: 2002-07-08

The second installment of the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the...

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The Chaplain

as Noguchi
Released: 2018-10-06

Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with...

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300 Million

as uncredited
Released: 2010-07-03

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is...

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Highway Battle R×R 2

as uncredited
Released: 2009-02-27

Koji trades in his GT-R32 for an R35 and takes on his rival once more, with his Top Secret car...

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Makeup

as Mami
Released: 1987-04-25

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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III

as uncredited
Released: 2002-07-08

The third installment of the hard-line action OV "Gokudo Seisen" series, which presents the...

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Onna no naka no akuma

as uncredited
Released: 1982-07-17

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Playing Dead

as uncredited
Released: 2023-03-17

Hiroshi Yoshida wanted to become an actor, but before he knew it, he only played the roles of...

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Parole

as uncredited
Released: 2004-06-05

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Portrait of the Wind

as uncredited
Released: 2005-10-15

Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to...

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Futari no onna

as Kozue Tanimura
Released: 1983-12-27

After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke...

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Kagerou no Tsuji

as Odainokata
First aired: 2007-07-19

Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a...

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Mission To Kill

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-01-09

Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the...

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Tower of Sand

as Mita Kumiko
First aired: 2016-10-14

Takano Aki is a happy, ordinary housewife whose family (sweet husband and two kids) has moved to...

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NHKスペシャル 未解決事件

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-07-29

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Steel Frame

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-07-03

Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common...

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