Katsuko Wakasugi

Acting

Katsuko Wakasugi

Born 1926-03-23 · Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Okore Sanpei poster
NR

Sanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.

Okore Sanpei

1953

Ghost of the Pearl Divers poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Ghost of the Pearl Divers

1960

Ghost Story of Yotsuya poster
6.5

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.

Ghost Story of Yotsuya

1959

Jealousy poster
NR

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

Jealousy

1962

Asakusa no hada poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Asakusa no hada

1950

Omokage Sanshiro poster
NR

A judo movie.

Omokage Sanshiro

1949

I Am Being Targeted poster
NR

A thriller of deduction and duels, in which a newspaper reporter bravely takes on a gang in the city’s skyscraper district over a mysterious recording by a diva.

I Am Being Targeted

1950

The Rainbow Man poster
6.2

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.

The Rainbow Man

1949

Brutal Woman poster
NR

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.

Brutal Woman

1960

Bōya monogatari poster
NR

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

Bōya monogatari

1951

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Port of Tears

1949

No artwork available
NR

Yoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and Hanayama—and centered around Yumi, the beautiful dancer who serves as their mascot—they form a poor but cheerful group of five.

Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuru

1950

Utau onna kengeki poster
NR

A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.

Utau onna kengeki

1953

Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi

1952

No artwork available
NR

A mysterious beauty with two faces on the magical island of the distant sea of ​​mystery. Sequel to Hagetaka (1950).

Pirate Island

1950

Savage Women poster
3.7

Second Pink film by Wakamatsu

Savage Women

1963

Ship of Outlaws poster
NR

Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.

Ship of Outlaws

1950

Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide poster
NR

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".

Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide

1961

The Image of Mother poster
NR

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.

The Image of Mother

1963

Demon King of Yoja Manor poster
10.0

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.

Demon King of Yoja Manor

1957

The Ghost of Kasane poster
7.3

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...

The Ghost of Kasane

1957

No artwork available
NR

Japanese crime film.

Nude Woman and Murder Maze

1959

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal poster
8.0

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.

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

1959

Yellow Line poster
7.8

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.

Yellow Line

1960