is an

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

and

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the Plan_(drawing), plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a mea ...

born on 3 February 1955 in

Ōtsu file:Otsu City Hall.JPG, 270px, Ōtsu City Hall is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 343,991 in 153458 households and a population density of 740 persons per km². The total a ...

Shiga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the nort ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. She attended

Chukyo University is a private university in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, with campuses in Nagoya and Toyota. The main building is located in Yagoto, Shōwa-ku, Nagoya. Notable faculty members * Naomi Miyake, cognitive scientist * Koji Murofushi, Olympic hammer t ...

, but left before finishing. She is employed by the From First Production talent agency. Karasuma made her debut as a

Clarion Girl A Clarion Girl is a Japanese campaign girl chosen to represent the Clarion car audio products in television and print advertising campaigns. A new representative is chosen annually, and many careers have been launched or enhanced due to being selec ...

in 1980, moving quickly into the

gravure idol A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Though mo ...

scene. Her debut as a film actress came as she got the lead role in the 1980 adaptation of the Hiroyuki Itsuki novel .

Filmography

Film

Listed chronologically with oldest at top. *''Kaichōon'' (Sachiko Yoshii, 1980, ATG) *''Four Seasons・Natsuko'' (Natsuko, 1980, Toei) *''Manon'' (Mitsuko, 1981,

Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer an ...

) *''Station'' (Yoshimatsu, 1981, Toho) *''Sukkari...sono Ki de'' (Sachiko Kasuga, 1981, Toho) *''Make Up'' (Mami, 1987) *'' Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'' (1985) *''

Twilight of the Cockroaches is a 1987 anime/live-action film written and directed by Hiroaki Yoshida that combines live-action footage with animation. The plot concerns a society of cockroaches who live peacefully in the apartment of a bachelor named Saito, until a woman mo ...

'' (Momoko, 1987, Herald Ace) *''Harōbari Nezumi'' (1991, Daei) *''Hokui 15° no Duo'' (Japanese woman living in Manila, 1991) *''Kiseki no Yama: Sayōnara Meiken Heiji'' (Keiko Kanō, 1992, Toho) *''Minami no Shima ni Yuki ga Furu'' (Tomomi Kanoya, 1995, Rebirth Films) *'' Young Thugs: Nostalgia'' (1998) *''Haha no Iru Basho・Taifū Ikka'' (Michiko, 2004, Kaeru Cafe) *''Parōre'' (Sachiko, 2004, K&M) *''Hisao'' (2004) *''Ta ga Tame ni'' (2005, Pal Entertainment) *''Sō Kamoshirenai'' (2006, Synergy) *''Matsugane Ransha Jiken'' (2007) *''

The Truth about Nanjing is a 2007 film by Japanese nationalist filmmaker Satoru Mizushima about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre (Nanking Massacre). Background and funding Mizushima said he received more than 200 million yen (US$1.8 million) in donations from 5,000 of his su ...

'' (2007) *'' The Crimes That Bind'' (2018) * ''You've Got a Friend'' (2022) Sources:

Television

*'' Scarlet'' (2020)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karasuma Setsuko 1955 births Japanese actresses Japanese gravure idols Living people People from Ōtsu, Shiga