Yōko Katsuragi Movies

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

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

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...

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.

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

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...

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

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

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

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

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

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

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

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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...

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

1952 Japanese movie

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is...