Katsuko Wakasugi
Also Known As: Sumiko Wakasugi, 若杉須美子, Kieko Wakasugi, 若杉紀英子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 23, 1926
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-11
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The Ghost of Kasane
Overview: A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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Death Row Woman
Overview: Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-13
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The Mother Tree
Overview: A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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Ghost of the Pearl Divers
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-08
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The Rainbow Man
Overview: When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
Genres: Fantasy Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-18
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
Overview: During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsubota and Tsukita’s collapse. Disguised as “Busujima,” Sakurada operates from a nearby villa. Meanwhile, Dr. Stanley from Monotor Republic plans to assassinate conglomerate Maurice and enlists Sakurada to create a half-animal man. Soon after, Akuri predicts Tsubota’s death as Sakurada aims to showcase the creature’s power for profit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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King of the Ring: The World of Glory
Overview: Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
Overview: The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni
Overview: The last film produced by Shintoho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-02
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Daikichi Konomura
Overview: A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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東京の夜は泣いている
Overview: Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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Yellow Line
Overview: The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Shitto
Overview: Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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Fighting Horizon
Overview: Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-15
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復讐秘文字峠
Overview: 1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-15
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Overview: In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Poison Fang Oran
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-19
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Rajo to satsujin-meiro
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-22
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A Wicked Woman
Overview: In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-25
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Savage Women
Overview: Second Pink film by Wakamatsu
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-01
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
Overview: Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-22
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The Image of Mother
Overview: A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-24
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Brutal Woman
Overview: Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying heed to his advice. However, the younger sister Yoshiko, is an innocent and kind girl. One day, with the sudden death of their mother in a car accident, Keiko learns that she and Yoshiko are actually stepsisters, and that she is the daughter of a murderer. She now plans extortion from Yoshiko's true father who is the president of a well-known trading company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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Ship of Outlaws
Overview: Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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That Night's Adventure
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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Morishige no demakase shinshi
Overview: Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-06
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妖婦 夜嵐お絹と天人お玉
Overview: Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Overview: In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, allowing Fushihime to escape. She later reveals that the beads protected her and predicts that eight warriors bearing these beads will someday defend the Satomi family before passing away. Yoshimi finds one of the beads in Inuzuka Nobuno’s armor and convinces her to serve him. Meanwhile, Baka Daiki, plotting to overthrow Satomi, imprisons Inukawa Shosuke, who tries to intervene, under the watch of vassal Aminen Saomojiro.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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