Acting

Kyōko Katsura

Acting credits

Black Line poster
5.0

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.

Black Line

1960

Girl's Reform School poster
NR

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Girl's Reform School

1956

Police Precinct: Mysterious Red Phone poster
NR

A young girl named Michiko is kidnapped and later found dead in a bag. But the kidnapper strikes again. The 18th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".

Police Precinct: Mysterious Red Phone

1962

Vagabond of Sex poster
3.7

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura’s documentary about her search for her missing husband.

Vagabond of Sex

1967

Flesh Pier poster
5.8

Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.

Flesh Pier

1958

A Pit poster
3.3

A reporter, Nagako Kita, is fired for writing about police corruption. To make money, she hides while a weekly magazine publishes photos of her, and offers a prize to the person who discovers her. A group of three bank embezzlers, So Yamamura, Eiji Funakoshi, and Sotoji Mukui, employ Mukui's younger sister Fukiko as a fake employee at the bank and plan to make her disappear when the real woman appears again and blame the crime on her.

A Pit

1967

Akai kage no otoko poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Akai kage no otoko

1961

Ginza for Two poster
NR

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the composer about adversity into a real hit.

Ginza for Two

1967

No artwork available
10.0

Pink film directed by Takae Shindo.

Aoi bôkô: Ijô taiken hakusho

1967