Itoko Kōno
Acting
Biography
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Known For
No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
Spring Awakens
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Both You and I
A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.
The Most Beautiful
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks to keep their line moving—even when duty collides with grief.
An Enemy of the People
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
Life Is like a Somersault
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Those Who Make Tomorrow
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal forces him to confront the realities of class struggle and join their fight for a fairer future. Now considered a lost film, Those Who Make Tomorrow was produced by Toho to promote unionization during Japan’s Allied Occupation.
Schoolgirl Records
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
World of Love
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Filmography
as Kazuko Ogura
as Lady
as Aono's middle daughter, Yasuko
as Fumie, Actress
as Sue Okabe
as Sadae
as Ayako Saeki