Itoko Wakaura

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a wealthy client from purchasing her, he steals money from his employer to buy her freedom himself. Now hunted criminals, the lovers flee toward Yamato, pursued by the law.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1961 Japanese movie

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cuisine in jeopardy...

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1961 Japanese movie

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as 乳母お初

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the owner, Shigebē, that she had come to collect a life he owed from twenty years ago and then left. The same night, Maruiya Genbē also received a visit from the woman's palanquin, and nearby, a man named Manbē was murdered. The detective Hayanawa Gohē concluded the murder was the work of a fox spirit, but another detective, Den Shichi, skeptical of this theory, noticed footprints on the tatami and decided to investigate further.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1958 Mito Kōmon film.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun family in Edo, and put it into Ryujin Maru. However, Tajima, who was the chief retainer of the shogunate, said that he was a member of the board, tetsugoro Funabashi, kumiyumi no Kami ichibei, and his son, masakichi, and others, and in the middle of the night, he killed all the members with poison in the night of the storm, threw Masayoshi, who was a fellow of the city, and masakichi, who escaped from the death of poison, into the sea and sank the boat to eliminate evidence.

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Ichimura

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1957 Japanese movie

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Detective Denshichi is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Kishu family's daughter Teruhime and the activities of a dangerous group dressed as skulls and their female leader.

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

1960 Japanese movie

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.