Yōko Katsuragi Movies

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Yoshida 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...

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

At 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...

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Each 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...

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

1962 Japanese movie

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...