
Acting
Yūko Katagiri
Born — Died
1952-01-26 — 2022-10-16
Place of birth
Akishima, Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
64 titles
Japanese actress. She appeared in more than sixty films since 1971. She starred in over fifty Nikkatsu Roman Porno films in eight years and was once married to Nikkatsu director Masaru Konuma, although they later divorced.
Known for
7.5Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
1977
3.8Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
Younger Sister
1974
3.8A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
1988
6.9Set in the late 60s in a small seaside town, this coming of age drama centres on a young girl named Nagisa. She spends her summer holidays working in a local seaside bar, searching for her lost cat, dancing to rock’n’roll and discovering first love.
Nagisa
2000
3.81979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
Marital War in Kibogaoka
1979
Film credits
2000s · 5 titles
6.9Set in the late 60s in a small seaside town, this coming of age drama centres on a young girl named Nagisa. She spends her summer holidays working in a local seaside bar, searching for her lost cat, dancing to rock’n’roll and discovering first love.
Nagisa
2000
NRA woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Arisaka (Endo Kenichi), to his hometown. Arisaka, who is about to start a new life, is troubled, and soon their feelings for each other burn intensely...
The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
2003
4.0A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.
Then Summer Came
2008
7.5Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma.
Sadistic and Masochistic
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Cricket Girl
2006
1990s · 2 titles
6.2Ran comes to Japan, and makes an immediate impression by assassinating a Yakuza boss and his associates, while they dine in a restaurant.
XX: Beautiful Beast
1995
4.0"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the three-corded shamisen for pilgrims visiting the sacred chapel of Ise.
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
1991
1980s · 9 titles
3.8A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
1988
5.5A housewife is brutally assaulted by a masked man nearby her apartment complex. From there, a web of suspicion, burning violence and repressed desires rapidly unfolds.
Zoom In: Sex Apartments
1980
6.0In a night painted with raw, incendiary desire, the story follows Shuhei as he slips from a morbid funeral into a world pulsing with illicit passions. At the seductive bar "EDEN," sultry whispers and heady intoxication set the stage for heated encounters—moments charged with forbidden attraction. An awkward, yet intensely charged reunion with his estranged brother in a steamy hotel room sparks a domino effect of erotic interludes, igniting wild nights at a pulsating disco and secret rendezvous at a coastal villa. Here, simmering rivalries and envious longings flare into explosive encounters, culminating in a searing, tumultuous climax where the boundaries between lust and violence vanish in a frenzy of physical, unrestrained ecstasy.
Scars of the Sun
1981
NRWho will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation.
The Politicians
1983
7.0Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for the legend of dead white horse. When her fiancé returns from war and visits her he comes across a white horse which he takes in. The man also does not see himself engaged anymore as his family has lost its wealth.
The Legend of Sayo
1982
10.0Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
Gate of Youth 2
1982
NRToma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make sure if it is true or not. On his way to Edo, Toma gave a hand to Kiku (Mayumi Okamura) who had a stomachache. However, she seemed to be in big trouble, and there were many warriors on the roads… This is the remade drama of “Wakasamamono” written by a popular novelist Tatsuji Satte. Go Kato as Dr. Waka brandishes a sword to come up against the plot of Karo, related to the inheritance of Takane Han.
Assassin's Road
1982
NRSakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysterious encounter.
Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
1981
NRKogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another! Based on the Edogawa Rampo story, "Hell's Clown."
Beauty with White Breasts
1981
1970s · 44 titles
3.8Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
Younger Sister
1974
3.81979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
Marital War in Kibogaoka
1979
6.1As Japan's war of aggression against China intensifies, beginning with the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937, Kohei, who had secretly married Junko, the second daughter of the Godai family, deploys to the front lines, witnessing the atrocities of the Japanese army firsthand. Meanwhile, Shunsuke also takes to the front lines of the battlefield, engaging in a fierce battle against the Soviet army at Nomonhan.
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1973
8.0Kazuko Shirakawa plays herself as a student who is scouted by a pink film producer. She leads a chaotic life until finding success at Nikkatsu studios.
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1973
7.7Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976
6.4Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a conflict with a young gangster and winds up killing him.
Third Base
1978
5.6In historical times, the Shogun family employs a group of Iga ninjas to take over the Akizuki clan's lands. The Akizuki hire the Fumi ninjas, a group of female warriors who enhance their fighting ability with sexual magic such as the "white snake spell". When the Akizuki emerge victorious, Tsukinojo, the leader of the Fumi ninjas, marries Lord Akizuki.
Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers
1974
4.7A young wife dabbles in casual prostitution to secretly help her older husband improve his business. But when she falls for one of her clients complications ensue.
Sex Highway: Woman's Parking Lot
1974
9.0A frustrated married woman has to deal with her husband's frequent business trips. So she comes up with the idea of turning her home into a boarding house and inviting young men in. Many men come to her boarding house, including innocent young students preparing for university entrance exams, students who look like they're from a cheering squad, and Black exchange students, and are all taken advantage of by the lustful woman.
Koichiro Uno's Up and Down
1977
NRThe film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.
Kōshoku biyōshi: Nikutai no hōshū
1979
4.6As two Japanese high school students, Rena and Yuko, navigate their first uncertain sexual experiences, they travel across Japan, discovering how choices they face can both separate and unite them.
Pink Tush Girl
1978
3.5A mix of satire, slapstick and straight ahead Roman Porno. We have two stories of Office Ladies in trouble, a pervert running amok in a park, references to Westside Story, Keystone Cops and other Roman Porno films. Naomi Tani and Yuko Katagiri appear as themselves, making fun of their on-screen personae. It’s a mad mad world.
In the Realm of Sex
1977
7.0In a free spirited and rowdy slum a forbidden romance forms between a samurai and a lower class girl who impersonates his future bride.
Secret Chronicle: Crimson Goddess in Paradise
1973
6.3A concubine is exiled from the Shogun's harem after she is found guilty of having tried to smuggle a kabuki dancer into the palace for the purpose of an illicit affair. Another concubine believes she has been framed and keeps investigating.
The Blonde in Edo Castle
1972
6.0Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.
Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market
1972
4.2A young woman is troubled by vivid sexual dreams triggered by her experiences as a trainee nurse.
Seduction of the White Angel
1972
5.0A young woman and her boyfriend are recruited to work in a bathhouse but find their relationship falling apart when she falls for a dangerous gangster.
Bathhouse 911: Jellyfish Bliss
1978
10.0Roman Porno from 1972.
Silent Tears
1972
10.0Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling her Hokkaido property, is apparently flush with cash but newly homeless. Her grown children take turns hosting her, making extravagant performances of filial devotion with an eye to potential profit. Making use of a catalog of wacky visual effects, bracketed by gratuitous ham-fisted fight scenes, and costarring pop singer Hideki Saijo, the film is balanced by Tanaka's nuanced performance, which delivers a denunciation of hypocrisy and greed.
Let's Go, Grandma!
1975
9.0Yuko is an innocent high school girl who has a crush on her gym teacher. She and her friends have a sleep-over party which develops into a sexual dare-game involving eels, and a lesbian orgy. Now sexually-awakened, Yuko decides to seduce her teacher, but is raped in an elevator before she meets her teacher.
Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts
1971
5.8An erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that are not satisfied with just having sex with their husbands.
Sex Education Mistresses
1973
10.0Sexual soap opera involving hospital staff. Loose sequel to Seduction of the White Angel.
Seduction 2: Embrace of the White Angel
1972
8.0A comedy about apartment wives who take advantage of a loan shark when their husbands can't earn enough money.
Apartment Wife: Flesh Financing
1976
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Nurses' Secret Chart: Randy White Uniforms
1975
7.0A conflict erupts between the girl gangs of Kinjou Gakuen High School and Shiiba Girls’ High School. Sex, fights and rock music ensue.
Sukeban Sex Violence
1973
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Koichiro Uno's Nurses' Journal
1979
6.8A traveling troupe of strippers do their stuff at various venues. One of the women has a sleazy boyfriend who leaves her to recruit his own group of strippers.
Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
1974
8.0Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Violent Fraternity
1974
4.0A funny, sudsy, sex-positive Turkish bathhouse-based comedy.
Turkish Latest Technique: Tongue Sucking
1976
NRA middle-aged couple is feeling bored with their sex life. As a solution, they hire a live-in helper for a young couple, hoping to spy on their sex life to get some excitement. Meanwhile, the young couple's husband has become impotent due to psychological reasons, and the young wife is completely frustrated. They applied hoping that spying on the middle-aged couple's intense sex life might stimulate her husband's impotence. Thus begins the strange cohabitation of the two couples with their own motives intertwined.
Kôshoku engi: Nurenure
1976
7.0A department store girl is robbed of her cash register by a boy, but for some reason she cannot forget the boy's mysterious eyes, and time passes. One day, she accidentally spots those eyes again and relentlessly pursues the boy. And the moment she apprehends him on a beach, her hatred transforms into pleasure, and they find themselves drawn to each other in this New Roman Porno film.
August: Scent of Eros
1972
4.0Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Japan's Pleasure District: Three Sisters at a Turkish Bath
1973
6.7Kiyoshi Yoshida plays Sotaro, a popular television performer, who manages a one-night stand with country-girl Yuko (Yuko Katagiri). She falls madly in love with him, and he enjoys the home-spun attention. When Yuko agrees to a prenuptial contract demanding her silence about the vows and permitting Sotaro the luxury of an "open marriage," they wed in a secret ceremony. However, after a couple weeks of Sotaro's womanizing, Yuko is unable to handle the situation and she attempts to kill both her husband and herself. The resulting scandal costs Sotaro his reputation and career; Yuko is sentenced to a 3 year jail term. But when she gets released, they get back together and try to establish the marriage on a "firmer footing."
The Hidden Lover
1972
4.7A wife works two jobs to support her husband who is cheating on her.
Midsummer Night's Affair: Bliss
1976
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Koichiro Uno's Wet and Open
1979
10.0“Get them all – girls, school credits, money – without an effort!" These are the rumors that freshman Hachirota Kawachi heard about the pep squad; his reasons for instant enrollment. Hachirota may fall a few screws short of a hardware store, but when it comes to yakuza ties, he has plenty. He is the direct descendant and heir to the notorious Akushin-kai gang. Although this was enough information to keep the pep squad seniors quiet, it’s not quite enough for Aota.
Ah! That Pep Squad 2 -Put on a Good Act-
1976
7.0Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.
Gassan
1979
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Koichiro Uno's Yummy and Meaty
1977
10.0Nikkatsu Roman Porno
The Climax
1973
5.0Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.
Song of the Devil
1975
4.0Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.
Dangerous Liaisons
1978
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Extravagant Cops
1977
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Red Light Tobita Brothel
1975
8.5Roman Porno from 1971. Sequel to Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts (1971).
Coed Report: Blooming Yuko
1971
Series credits
7.5Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
1977
NR«Japanese Masterpiece Ghost Story Theatre» - is a 13-episode series based on classic Japanese ghost stories.
Japanese Masterpiece Ghost Story Theatre
1979
NRYoshiko Konno went on a winter trip in a car driven by her fiance, Yoichi Itokawa, but got lost due to a blizzard and arrived at a mountain cottage in the depths of a grove. They decide to rent a room. After greeting several men and women sitting by the fireplace, they enter the bedroom. In the middle of the night, Yoshiko woke up and, hearing a woman's voice from the next room, left the room to see what was going on...
Murder Case: Lover Swap
1982
