Setsuko Wakayama
Acting
Biography
Setsuko Wakayama was a Japanese actress.
Born: June 7, 1929
Place of Birth: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
The Angry Street
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
A Visage to Remember
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it to the loss of his wife, they urge him to marry their niece, Kaoru, but he is not interested. Shortly after, Fumiko , Sachiko's older sister, realizes that Sachiko and Kawasaki have feelings for each other, but she keeps her counsel. One day Kawasaki, Sachiko, and Kaoru go boating when a storm forces them to stay overnight at a hotel. Unable to sleep, Kawasaki takes a walk along the beach where he finds Sachiko, also unable to sleep. He declares his love for her.
Battle of Roses
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
Filmography
as Hidemi
as (uncredited)
as Toshiko Murayama
as Haruko Nishida
as Taeko Okada
as Taeko
as Hidemi Yamaji
as Kazuko Yamamoto
as Pilgrim's Daughter
as Sister Cartini
as Taniguchi Kayo
as Sakai Mangame
as Yoshiko Kimura
as Kaoru
as Kazuko Sasai
as Kazuko Sasai
as Haruko