Fukuko Sayo

Acting

Fukuko Sayo

Born — Died

1909-03-05 — 1989-12-29

Place of birth

Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

Oyaji Daiko poster
9.0

The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first generation, but he is a one-man family. His wife, Aiko, is a typical good wife and wise mother type. Kamejiro gets angry and thunders down every week, and the children are afraid of him, calling him "Oyaji Daiko", but he also takes advantage of this.

Oyaji Daiko

1968

Akai Kizuna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Akai Kizuna

1977

Downtown Story poster
NR

The story revolves around a bar and a poor church in downtown Yokohama , a port town . Kazami Yobuko is a singer and hostess at the bar . The bar originally belonged to Yobuko's mother, Ranko, but Ranko committed an assault and is serving time in prison, and the bar now belongs to Tsukiyo. This is the story of the twists and turns of the love story between Yobuko and a poor pastor , Shioya Isaku. The story begins on Christmas Eve, when Isaku helps Yobuko, who is suffering from a miscarriage .

Downtown Story

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Wagako wa Tanin poster
NR

The drama is about the suffering of two families whose babies were mistaken for each other in the hospital.

Wagako wa Tanin

1974

Kōfuku Sōdan poster
NR

A light-hearted comedy about love, fortune telling and songs of life that begins when a couple of sisters and brothers meet. It depicts a group of coming-of-age men and women earnestly seeking for love.

Kōfuku Sōdan

1972

Till We Meet Again poster
7.0

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...

Till We Meet Again

1955

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 13 titles

Yakuza sensei poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yakuza sensei

1960

Akitsu Hot Springs poster
6.5

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

Girl in the Glass poster
5.5

This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small factory to support his family. The friendship that had blossomed between them eventually grew into love. Yet the purer it was, the more it seemed destined for a tragic conclusion...

Girl in the Glass

1960

Bad Girl poster
7.6

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.

Bad Girl

1963

No artwork available
7.0

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Once a Rainy Day

1966

Black Weapon poster
NR

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

Black Weapon

1964

Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai

1961

The Virgin Witness poster
7.5

An uncle decides to put his delinquent orphaned niece into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.

The Virgin Witness

1966

Adventure With Him poster
NR

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and his friends that she will join them, and they reluctantly agree. However, on the day of the trip, Akira suddenly decides not to join. Mitsuo and Noriko, a man and a woman, begin their journey together.

Adventure With Him

1965

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo poster
NR

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there.

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

1961

That Young May Be Eternal poster
NR

A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swept into a storm of passion, the film captures the joys and anguished longings of youth.

That Young May Be Eternal

1961

Distant Love poster
6.0

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Distant Love

1963

Oyuki poster
NR

A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and joyful life.

Oyuki

1966

1950s · 24 titles

Till We Meet Again poster
7.0

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...

Till We Meet Again

1955

Man Who Causes a Storm poster
6.8

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.

Man Who Causes a Storm

1957

The Snowy Heron poster
5.0

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

The Snowy Heron

1958

Tales of Ginza poster
7.0

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.

Tales of Ginza

1955

Children of Hiroshima poster
7.1

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

Children of Hiroshima

1952

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

1950

No artwork available
NR

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.

How Sorrowful

1956

Miniature poster
7.8

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

Miniature

1953

Kazanmyaku poster
NR

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.

Kazanmyaku

1950

Mune yori mune ni poster
10.0

Japanese drama

Mune yori mune ni

1955

Forever, My Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Forever, My Love

1958

Adolescence poster
10.0

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

Adolescence

1952

Before the Dawn poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Before the Dawn

1953

Forbidden Lips poster
NR

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Forbidden Lips

1958

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

1950

I Saw a Phantom Fish poster
NR

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

I Saw a Phantom Fish

1950

The Way of Youth poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

The Way of Youth

1957

Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru poster
7.0

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru

1954

The Ghost of Iwojima poster
NR

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.

The Ghost of Iwojima

1959

No artwork available
NR

This story depicts how a once-famous married couple of manga artists refused to be defeated by their current poverty.

Aru yoru no dekigoto

1952

Love is Lost poster
8.0

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Love is Lost

1956

Ishigassen poster
NR

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of the priesthood of Tada Shrine, was weak and was always forced to carry stones. However, neither swimming nor stone-throwing was a secret to his sick mother, Kouko... Seishi Matsumaru, Ryuichi Yoshida, and Ado Matsuyama were adapted from "Tenmangu" and "Ishigassen", directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi of "Waran Hayashi", and photographed by Hanjiro Nakazawa of "The Last Women".

Ishigassen

1955

A Guide to Marriage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Guide to Marriage

1952

Miss Hanaogi and Santa poster
NR

A beautiful tale of teacher-student love between a pure-hearted female teacher and a group of wild boys unfolds on the banks of a river in a mountain gorge.

Miss Hanaogi and Santa

1952

1940s · 4 titles

Series credits