Setsuko Karasuma

Setsuko Karasuma

Born: February 3, 1955
in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Setsuko Karasuma (烏丸 せつこ Karasuma Setsuko) is an actress and model born on 3 February 1955 in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. She attended Chukyo University, but left before finishing. She is employed by the From First Production talent agency. Karasuma made her debut as a Clarion Girl in 1980, moving quickly into the gravure idol scene. Her debut as a film actress came as she got the lead role in the 1980 adaptation of the Hiroyuki Itsuki novel Four Seasons・Natsuko.

Movies for Setsuko Karasuma...

You've Got A Friend
Title: You've Got A Friend
Released: February 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.
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Tomorrow's Dining Table
Title: Tomorrow's Dining Table
Character: Yoshie Ishibashi
Released: May 28, 2021
Type: Movie
3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head towards their sons Yu.
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Ride or Die
Title: Ride or Die
Character: Ichiko Oe
Released: April 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
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The Chaplain
Title: The Chaplain
Character: Noguchi
Released: October 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki
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Title: Tower of Sand
Character: Mita Kumiko
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: TV
Takano Aki is a happy, ordinary housewife whose family (sweet husband and two kids) has moved to their dream apartment. Just as they are starting their new life, they encounter an ominous, terrifying neighbour, Sasaki Yumiko, who manipulates the dark emotions of pride, vanity and jealousy of the housewives living in the apartment building. She drives Aki into isolation within the building with unexpected methods and eventually causes the break up of her family. Meanwhile, a series of abduction cases take place. There seems to be a connection to the kidnapper and the frightening neighbor.
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Double Life
Title: Double Life
Released: June 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.
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Too Young To Die!
Title: Too Young To Die!
Character: Gozu
Released: June 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
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64: Part 2
Title: 64: Part 2
Character: Masae Hiyoshi
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
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64: Part 1
Title: 64: Part 1
Character: Masae Hiyoshi
Released: May 7, 2016
Type: Movie
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
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Kiyamachi Daruma
Title: Kiyamachi Daruma
Character: Shizue Arai
Released: October 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Shigeo Katsuura once led the yakuza that dominated the town of Kiya. Due to an accident, he lost both his arms and legs. 5 years later, to make a living, he goes to debtors' homes and collects money from the debtors.
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JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest
Title: JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Two TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.
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Title: NHKスペシャル 未解決事件
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: TV
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HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
Title: HESOMORI -ヘソモリ-
Released: May 22, 2011
Type: Movie
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300 Million
Title: 300 Million
Released: July 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.
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Title: Steel Frame
Released: July 3, 2010
Type: TV
Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common practice among the giants. After working diligently for three years at a construction site, Heita unwillingly transfers to a sales department where he becomes a part of the illegal collusion -- to limit open competition and obtain high-price public works within the colluding parties. He is torn from conducting unlawful action to save his company, yet deep inside wishing to abide by the law to follow his justice. What will his answer be?
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The Unbroken
Title: The Unbroken
Character: Mitsuko Higuchi
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
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Highway Battle R×R 2
Title: Highway Battle R×R 2
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Koji trades in his GT-R32 for an R35 and takes on his rival once more, with his Top Secret car tuner putting everything on the line for a final win.
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Title: Kagerou no Tsuji
Character: Odainokata
Released: July 19, 2007
Type: TV
Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and successor to a powerful family in Bungo. He has came back to Edo, where he lived for a while for swordplay training with his two best friends, after a tragedy in the three's home domain—both of the two friends died, one of them killed by Iwane by command of the domain lord's chief retainer. Iwane left his home for Edo, leaving behind his fiancée, a sister of the friend he killed. Eventually, Iwane detects the conspiracy behind the deaths of the two friends and struggles to reform his domain.
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Title: The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Character: Izumi Kuniyoshi
Released: February 24, 2007
Type: Movie
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
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Perhaps He Is
Title: Perhaps He Is
Released: October 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A non-prolific writer, Takayama Osamu and his wife, Yoshiko, though not blessed with children, live happily together. They should have had peaceful twilight years, but instead, Yoshiko suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, and Osamu also falls ill. Yoshiko, who cannot cope with daily life any longer, goes into a care home, and Osamu is admitted to a hospital, resulting in them living their remaining lives separately. One day, after some time, the couple who have kept battling their illnesses, manage to meet each other. Osamu breathes his last breath on the following day. People around Yoshiko find it difficult to inform her, but she seems to sense Osamu's death.
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Portrait of the Wind
Title: Portrait of the Wind
Released: October 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
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Title: Hachiro
Released: January 24, 2005
Type: TV
A story of Sato Hachiro, poet in the Showa period who is known for his lyric poems and songs for children. Despite the delicate and sensitive style of his works, he and his family spent a life full of ups and downs. Based on a novel by his half-sister Sato Aiko, the drama describes the thrilling life of the poet who played an important role in the popular culture of the Showa era by focusing on his love and hate relationship with his family. (Source: DramaWiki)
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Parole
Title: Parole
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: Movie
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 2
Title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 2
Released: February 2, 2004
Type: Movie
An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.
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Her Island, My Island
Title: Her Island, My Island
Released: February 15, 2003
Type: Movie
A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III
Title: Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III
Released: July 8, 2002
Type: Movie
The third installment of the hard-line action OV "Gokudo Seisen" series, which presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi Miike of "IZO". It depicts the activities of the martial arts yakuza who challenge the major general contractors who are plotting wrongdoing. Actors such as Taishu Kase and Hiroki Matsukata performed well with the men living in Shuraba.
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II
Title: Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II
Released: July 8, 2002
Type: Movie
The second installment of the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi Miike of "IZO". A hot-blooded yakuza challenges a "holy war" against a company that earns a lot of money in a villainous way. Big actors such as Taishu Kase and Hiroki Matsukata set aside.
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Title: Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Character: Riichi's mother
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
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Hokui 15° no duo
Title: Hokui 15° no duo
Character: Japanese woman living in Manila
Released: March 23, 1991
Type: Movie
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
Title: Twilight of the Cockroaches
Character: Momoko
Released: November 21, 1987
Type: Movie
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
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Makeup
Title: Makeup
Character: Mami
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: Movie
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Title: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Character: Mitsuko (segment "Kyoko's House")
Released: May 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
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Futari no onna
Title: Futari no onna
Character: Kozue Tanimura
Released: December 27, 1983
Type: Movie
After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no relatives, he is taken in by Keiko, who keeps an eye out for him due to his unusual behavior. One day, Eisuke breaks into the loan company with an improvised gun. In the moment, Keiko ends up becoming Eisuke's accomplice and helps him succeed in the robbery. However, the two are surprised when they hear something on the TV news that differs from the truth.
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Onna no naka no akuma
Title: Onna no naka no akuma
Released: July 17, 1982
Type: Movie
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Completely... With That Air!
Title: Completely... With That Air!
Released: December 20, 1981
Type: Movie
This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.
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Station
Title: Station
Character: Suzuko Yoshimatsu
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
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Manon
Title: Manon
Character: Mitsuko
Released: September 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.
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Before Spring
Title: Before Spring
Character: Sachiko
Released: September 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.
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Four Seasons: Natsuko
Title: Four Seasons: Natsuko
Character: Natsuko
Released: August 6, 1980
Type: Movie
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.