Mitsuko Kusabue
Birthday: 1933-10-22
Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Mitsuko Kusabue (草笛 光子, Kusabue Mitsuko, born October 22, 1933 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actress.
Movies
化石の微笑み
Kazuya Miyahara, haunted by a phobia of dirt and touch from childhood bullying, encounters an elderl...
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What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the re...
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Hail the 3 Gents
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends ...
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Travels of Lord Mito
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to vari...
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The Inugami Family
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condi...
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The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...
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The Mask and Destiny
Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive r...
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Adults Cannot Understand - Record of Youth
The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a d...
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Star of Hong Kong
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an en...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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Lullaby to Kill
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police det...
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tok...
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Oar
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted childre...
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The Thin Line
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which ...
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The Unbroken
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for Nation...
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HOME
When Koichi Takahasi (Miutani) is transferred from Tokyo to a small village in Iwate Prefecture, the...
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Jigen Daisuke
Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out t...
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Samurai Pirate
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, ...
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Edo no yubae
In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with ...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Vampire Spider
In the town of Izu known for its hot springs, Den Shichi from Kuromon Town sets off for a healing tr...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to ...
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The Bride and the Treasure
Den Shichi of Kurodomon-chō, the best detective in Edo, captured members of a thief gang called "Kit...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, reveali...
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Rampaging Dog
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series....
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This Greedy Old Skin
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...
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The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat
The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima ...
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Angel's Ladder
Tenshi no Hashigo 2006 (Japan), also known as Angel's Ladder is Japan drama premiere on Oct 22, 2006...
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Chain of Flowers
Based upon the novel by Minato Kanae. The story is about three women who all live in the same countr...
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Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo T...
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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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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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The Phoenix
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also ...
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90 Years Old – So What?
Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. Sh...
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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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Dendera
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to bui...
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind nume...
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The Magnificent Nine
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzab...
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The Sandal Keeper
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to e...
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Aimitagai
Azusa and Kanami have been best friends since high school. After Kanami dies in an unexpected accide...
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0.5 mm
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Queen Bee
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's...
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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 Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
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A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Jap...
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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Murder on the Orient Express
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express"....
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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4.50 from Paddington
Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her h...
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Japan's No. 1 Playboy
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was ...
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And Then
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 y...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi...
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Yakuza Ladies 2
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza ...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his...
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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Kiri no hi
Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Proof of the Man
In Tokyo, 1974, a young African American is found dead in a lift. A knife is stuck deep into his che...
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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 House of Hanging
This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to d...
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Walking with My Grandma
Natsumi is proposed to by Yamato, a man who aims to become a fisherman to succeed his father. Her gr...
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The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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The Paradise Island Story
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific....
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On Wings of Love
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's hi...
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She-Shogun
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quart...
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Sugata Sanshiro
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher rev...
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A Woman's Life
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mothe...
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Lonely Heart
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to so...
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Japan's No. 1 Braggart
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old m...
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinos...
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What the Snow Brings
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jock...
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Abacus and Sword
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of t...
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Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchis...
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New Third-Class Executive
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide wh...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudat...
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Playboy President: Part II
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate m...
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Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key o...
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Company President Travels Abroad
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but becom...
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Company President Travels Abroad Part II
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by loc...
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President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follow...
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Five Gents Prefer Geisha
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige)...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes maj...
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Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership c...
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Five Gents and a Kuniang
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles....
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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3 Raccoon Dogs
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their scheme...
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Flower's Yearning
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while ...
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More Than 10,000 Women But...
A newlywed couple moves into an apartment complex where each family faces everyday problems....
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The Decoy
Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (...
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Schooldays
Three college friends support swimmer Okubo through family and financial troubles. Junko, a woman he...
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The College Hero
Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at M...
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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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