Setsuko Karasuma
Also Known As: Setsuko Karasumaru, 烏丸 せつこ
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 03, 1955
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Gender: Female
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Tomorrow's Dining Table
Overview: 3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head towards their sons Yu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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Highway Battle R×R 2
Overview: Koji trades in his GT-R32 for an R35 and takes on his rival once more, with his Top Secret car tuner putting everything on the line for a final win.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Overview: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Overview: Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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Station
Overview: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Before Spring
Overview: Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-20
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The Unbroken
Overview: Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-23
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Onna no naka no akuma
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-17
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Too Young To Die!
Overview: After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Hokui 15° no duo
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-23
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You've Got A Friend
Overview: Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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Portrait of the Wind
Overview: Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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300 Million
Overview: Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-03
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HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
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Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-22
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 2
Overview: An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-02
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Overview: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-24
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Parole
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-05
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Double Life
Overview: Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Living in Two Worlds
Overview: Dai grows up in a small town, interpreting for his loving deaf parents, until he moves to Tokyo in search of his own independent life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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64: Part 1
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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64: Part 2
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Manon
Overview: A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-26
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Completely... With That Air!
Overview: This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-20
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Perhaps He Is
Overview: A non-prolific writer, Takayama Osamu and his wife, Yoshiko, though not blessed with children, live happily together. They should have had peaceful twilight years, but instead, Yoshiko suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, and Osamu also falls ill. Yoshiko, who cannot cope with daily life any longer, goes into a care home, and Osamu is admitted to a hospital, resulting in them living their remaining lives separately. One day, after some time, the couple who have kept battling their illnesses, manage to meet each other. Osamu breathes his last breath on the following day. People around Yoshiko find it difficult to inform her, but she seems to sense Osamu's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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The Chaplain
Overview: Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-06
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Four Seasons: Natsuko
Overview: A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-06
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Her Island, My Island
Overview: A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-15
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
Overview: The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Science Fiction Romance Family Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-21
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Makeup
Overview: 1987film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-25
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Kiyamachi Daruma
Overview: Shigeo Katsuura once led the yakuza that dominated the town of Kiya. Due to an accident, he lost both his arms and legs. 5 years later, to make a living, he goes to debtors' homes and collects money from the debtors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-03
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Futari no onna
Overview: After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no relatives, he is taken in by Keiko, who keeps an eye out for him due to his unusual behavior. One day, Eisuke breaks into the loan company with an improvised gun. In the moment, Keiko ends up becoming Eisuke's accomplice and helps him succeed in the robbery. However, the two are surprised when they hear something on the TV news that differs from the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-27
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II
Overview: The second installment of the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi Miike of "IZO". A hot-blooded yakuza challenges a "holy war" against a company that earns a lot of money in a villainous way. Big actors such as Taishu Kase and Hiroki Matsukata set aside.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-08
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III
Overview: The third installment of the hard-line action OV "Gokudo Seisen" series, which presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi Miike of "IZO". It depicts the activities of the martial arts yakuza who challenge the major general contractors who are plotting wrongdoing. Actors such as Taishu Kase and Hiroki Matsukata performed well with the men living in Shuraba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-08
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Ride or Die
Overview: Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest
Overview: Two TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Playing Dead
Overview: Hiroshi Yoshida wanted to become an actor, but before he knew it, he only played the roles of corpses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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