
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
9.0The 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Akai Kizuna
1977
NRThe 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
—
NRThe drama is about the suffering of two families whose babies were mistaken for each other in the hospital.
Wagako wa Tanin
1974
NRA 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
7.0Jiro 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
8.0After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974
7.0The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB
Autumn Interlude
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tatakai sunde higa kurete
1970
1960s · 13 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Yakuza sensei
1960
6.5Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
5.5This 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
7.6Wakae 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
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Once a Rainy Day
1966
NRIndustrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
Black Weapon
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai
1961
7.5An 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
NRMitsuo 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
NRA 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
NRA 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
6.0A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
Distant Love
1963
NRA 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
7.0Jiro 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
6.8Shoichi 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
5.0The 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
7.0In 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
7.1Shows 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
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
7.8Ginko, 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
NRBiographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.
Kazanmyaku
1950
10.0Japanese drama
Mune yori mune ni
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Forever, My Love
1958
10.0Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Adolescence
1952
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Before the Dawn
1953
NRA 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
NRA village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
I Saw a Phantom Fish
1950
NR1957 Japanese movie
The Way of Youth
1957
7.0Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
1954
NRThe 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
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
8.0Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Love is Lost
1956
NRAcross 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Guide to Marriage
1952
NRA 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
NRA social drama about the first female police officer.
Female Police Officer
1947
On the night before her wedding to her fiancé, Nakagawa, Kyoko Kagawa is spending time with her high school teacher and close friends. The classmates who have gathered at Ms. Shimizu’s house were all beautiful, kind women who are genuinely happy for Kyoko. However, one person, Shigeko Yuri, can't bring herself to be happy for her. Before the war, Kyoko had a boyfriend named Takei, who lost his life in the war. It was Nakagawa who comforted Kyoko and nurtured their relationship, but Shigeko herself had a lover named Haruoka, whose whereaboutsare still unknown. Shigeko, who has devoted everything to her love for Haruoka, misunderstood that Kyoko switched her affections to Nakagawa, and in an attempt to thwart Kyoko’s marriage hid the diamond ring Nakagawa has sent her.
Onna dake no yoru
1947
6.0Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: Heiji Covers All of Edo
1949
6.0A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden.
Gate of Flesh
1948
Series credits
9.0The 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Akai Kizuna
1977
NRThe 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
—
NRThe drama is about the suffering of two families whose babies were mistaken for each other in the hospital.
Wagako wa Tanin
1974
NRA 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

