Michiyo Yasuda

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Fujiyama

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiya Fujita

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old...

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Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he...

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Cast: Claude Maki

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junkyu Moriyama

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Tomita

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Naomi Fujiyama

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chiharu Inayoshi

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the...

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Higuchi

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyōko Enami

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and...

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Ken Ogata

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for the horror and depravity that takes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

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Cast: Seiko Matsuda

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige