Natsuko Kahara
Birthday: 1921-01-03
Place of Birth: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Bridge of Japan
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then ...
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Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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Morning for the Osone Family
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during W...
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Fiddler on the Roof
Special 50th anniversary recording of the Tokyo Imperial Theater production of the Fiddler on the Ro...
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Let's Meet in Our Dreams
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We foll...
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Lullaby of the Earth
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is su...
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The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home...
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Broken Drum
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his child...
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The Tale of Jiro
Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His i...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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The Other Woman
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...
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Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth an...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Kandagawa
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a ...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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The Night of the Seagull
A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of he...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Okoto and Sasuke
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō....
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Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpect...
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To Trap a Kidnapper
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from schoo...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain ...
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
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Tomorrow
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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The Song Lantern
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film t...
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Tenchu!
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...
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Three-Fingered Detective
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony....
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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Zoku izuko e
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....
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The Four Loves
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they ...
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Who Is the Informer?
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...
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Settlement of Love
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four ...
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Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series....
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Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seven...
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Big Wind from Tokyo
A TV writer and a director stranded in a rural town witness the young villagers’ tangled romances. D...
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Hateful Things
The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying ...
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The Path Under the Platanes
Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play....
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Return of the Champ
A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama...
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I'll Be Deceived
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt....
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