Shizue Natsukawa

AKA: 夏川静枝
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1909-03-09

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {72}

Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

1965-01-06 7.71

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy, Drama

1950-08-12 0

The Burning Prison

In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return within three days, or if he leaves Edo Prefecture, he ...
Genre :Drama

1953-12-29 0

Jūdai no yūwaku

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako ...
Genre :

1955-08-31 5.889

The Tattered Wings

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1950-04-09 0

Song of Love

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts her past, she navigates themes of forgiveness, identity, ...
Genre :Drama

Michiko Mori

1927-09-15 0

Jihishincho

Shizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal, the other refuses to marry out of love for her. Considered a lost film. ...
Genre :Drama

Fumiko Inoue

1960-02-02 0

Beyond the Hills

Story of young love in the hills. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Ayako

1930-03-14 7

Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1928-01-21 0

Kekkon nijuso: zenpen

Genre :

1955-09-07 0

Next Door to Happiness

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he ...
Genre :Drama

1958-03-04 0

White Blaze

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-07-29 0

Ai to kanashimi to

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Aunt Gerda (voice)

1979-03-03 6.4

Nutcracker Fantasy

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a stop-motion animated film. ...
Genre :Animation, Fantasy, Family

妻むら

1954-09-01 0

Edo no yubae

In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku was one of them. He discreetly handed a departure ...
Genre :

菊五郎夫人

1951-02-03 0

情艶一代女

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue t ...
Genre :

女房おくら

1956-01-22 0

大当り男一代

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. Shinzō and Oyasu set up a household near a soba sho ...
Genre :

1949-02-22 0

Kaze no ko

1949 drama film ...
Genre :

Motoko's mother

1956-02-26 5.8

Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply. ...
Genre :Drama

1927-06-05 0

The King of Rowing

A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where the regatta is still held today. The main stroke rol ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Yoko and Aiko's mother

1954-03-13 0

A Certain Woman

Genre :Drama

Rieko Hirayama, the mother

1958-05-13 5.9

Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-06-10 0

A Carpenter and Children

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship th ...
Genre :Drama

1955-01-02 0

美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

Genre :

Reikichi's mother

1953-12-13 6.8

Love Letter

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1972-01-01 0

Hanzaki Daimyojin, Gorosuke no uta

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada. ...
Genre :

1962-10-06 0

Hibari's Tale of Pathos

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and takes a liking to her beautiful voice. The trouble starts ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Drama

1958-04-15 5.7

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spitefu ...
Genre :Drama, History

1954-06-29 0

乾杯！女学生

Genre :

Yasuko's mother

1959-09-27 5.3

Thus Another Day

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mort ...
Genre :Drama

Teruko, granddaughter of Kikuchi

1928-08-31 0

Town of Love

Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl". ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Minowa

1954-03-21 0

The Golden Demon

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to ...
Genre :Drama

1927-03-18 0

Five Women Around Him

Directed by Yutaka Abe. ...
Genre :

1954-08-31 0

The Black Current

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead. ...
Genre :Drama

Yoshiko Aoki

1935-01-13 0

Chorus of a Million People

Chorus of a Million People ...
Genre :

Shima

1958-12-02 6.6

Roughneck From Asama

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of raiders, Itaro of Asama was missing. With the courag ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Osumi

1950-10-21 6.685

Portrait of Madame Yuki

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-07-18 0

Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and coming stars, Sasaki Sukesaburo (Matsukata), the so ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Drama

Omura

1962-01-14 6

In Search of Mother

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding he ...
Genre :Drama

Michiko Hamada

1951-08-24 0

Tsuki yori no haha

Japanese drama film. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-02-10 0

Tattoo of Love

The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle. Starting out as a down on his luck gambler, Hantaro refuses ...
Genre :

Teacher Hashimoto

1937-10-08 5

Young People

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at ...
Genre :Drama

Otami

1971-01-23 6

Okoma, the Orphan Gambler

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take ove ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Kinue

1955-05-10 0

No Time for Tears

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relationship with the coach's daughter Michiko, Shimamura b ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

1959-04-05 0

The Hidden Treasure

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama. ...
Genre :Drama

道代（後に折枝）

1929-05-31 6

Tokyo March

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1958-12-07 0

Maria of the Ant Village

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her se ...
Genre :Drama

Fusako Kobayashi

1935-06-01 0

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel. ...
Genre :

Mrs. Natori

1957-10-01 9

Times of Joy and Sorrow

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife. ...
Genre :Drama

1940-07-31 6.3

Spring on Leper's Island

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony. ...
Genre :History, Drama

1956-09-26 0

Tears

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover. ...
Genre :Drama

Kiyoko Murata

1958-01-21 0

City of Love

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1957-02-19 6

Good Luck to These Two

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents. ...
Genre :Romance

1966-10-29 0

The Swan Elegy

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between two men, learns from her father that she is the ch ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Ôishi Sensei no Haha

1954-09-15 7.7

Twenty-Four Eyes

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-06-29 7.8

The Boy Who Came Back

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. ...
Genre :Drama

1957-12-15 0

Hearts A-Flutter

Genre :Drama

Osome

1929-01-02 0

Metropolitan Symphony

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film. ...
Genre :

お京

1924-06-01 0

Child of the Streets

Genre :Drama

1929-03-01 0

Ashes

Genre :Drama

1951-05-18 0

Who Will Judge Me?

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi ...
Genre :Drama

Okane Sawaiya

1963-11-20 8.5

Yakuza of Seki

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wis ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1958-06-17 0

The Coming of Age

Genre :Drama

1959-02-04 0

Unripe Fruit

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student. ...
Genre :Drama

その妹お糸

1923-03-15 0

Skull Dance

Directed by Eizo Tanaka. ...
Genre :

Takiko Shima

1966-04-29 0

Warm Current

Genre :Drama

1932-03-03 0

Hatobue wo Fuku Onna

Genre :

1951-12-28 0

Koi no rantō

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mo ...
Genre :

1952-08-25 0

Violence

Genre :Drama

照子の妹

1919-09-13 0

The Glow of Life

A country girl Teruko falls in love with the aristocrat Yanagisawa. When she once asks him what the meaning of life is, he responds that it is to live freely. Unfortunately, he does that by abandoning ...
Genre :Drama

1957-08-27 0

Atarashii Sebiro

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love. ...
Genre :Drama

1981-02-15 0

Yumechiyo Nikki

Yumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When Yumechiyo learns that she is dying of leukemia caused by the atomic bomb, she writes about her life in the fo ...
Genre :Drama

溝呂木の妻・しげ

1966-04-04 0

Ohanahan

The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself. ...
Genre :Drama, Family