Haruko Katō
Birthday: 1922-11-24
Place of Birth: Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Haruko Katō (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress. Haruko Katō was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After training at acting school, she was signed up with the film production company Toho in 1939, debuting in Hanatsumi Nikki in the same year.
Movies
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three ...
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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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Kiki's Delivery Service
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficu...
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Shinibana
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shini...
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East China Sea
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of...
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Pistol Opera
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killi...
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Gonza the Spearman
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear...
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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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若い川の流れ
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe...
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Spy Sorge
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outb...
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Awakening
After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriag...
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Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decide...
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About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud...
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Tasmania Story
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an ...
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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he ...
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Chameleon
Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-art...
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Seasonal Wind
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiratio...
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The Gambling Nun
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh...
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It's On Me
News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves...
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of ...
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The Wild Daisy
Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to s...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man....
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The Dancer
Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Be...
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Sweet Revenge
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Hi...
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Love in the Mud
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tok...
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Deaths in Tokimeki
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to ca...
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Capone Cries a Lot
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achievin...
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Life Is Journey
LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for...
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in or...
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Sword and Flower
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seekin...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a ...
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of h...
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Green Fruit
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is fi...
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Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape ...
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Wedding Day
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accep...
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Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses ...
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Body and Soul
A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to bui...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a...
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A Thousand and One Nights
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through ...
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Something Like It
Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual...
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Caribe: Symphony of Love
The love story of an architect and a fashion designer in Mexico....
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The Girl I Abandoned
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president....
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The Crying Wind
Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-ol...
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Sharaku
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi...
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Kizu
Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of...
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Flower Picking Diary
Based on "Heaven and Maiko", a short story from the book "Chiisaki Hanabana" by Yoshiya Nobuko, it i...
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Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare,"...
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave...
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Kaze no Sumu Ie
A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and...
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Ghost Story: Flower House
An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the stran...
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The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
The film depicts the counterattack by Haimis, who was swindled out of a large sum of money by a marr...
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Umi e, See You
Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousan...
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