Yoko Minakaze

Make-Up (1984)

The Women of Osaka Castle (1983)

A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television. ...

Sudachi no toki kyoiku wa shinazu (1981)

Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sase), the son of a doctor in Suwa, and Nobuko (Mayuki Kirihara), the daughter of a weaver in Kyoto, are tran ...

Have Wings on Your Heart (1978)

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl. ...

Aoi sanmyaku (1975)

Remake of 1949 film ...

Red Paper Lantern (1974)

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings. ...

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte (1972)

Sono hito wa hono no yo ni (1972)

Film by Deme Masanobu ...

Wakare no uta (1971)

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted. ...

Hajimete no Tabi (1971)

The Militarists (1970)

This tremendous blockbuster hit from 1970, showing the rise to power of Tojo Hideki, is perhaps the most important film to come out of Japan since the 7 Samurai! Interspersed with actual footage dating back to the 1930's and throughout the Great Pacific Wa ...

Take Care, Red Riding Hood (1970)

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself. ...

The Vampire Doll (1970)

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history. ...

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo (1969)

Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tr ...

Judge and Jeopardy (1968)

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War. ...

The Start of Life (1965)

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank a ...

A Full Life (1962)

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact. ...

Hana to musume to shiroi michi (1961)

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles. ...

The Angry Rambler (1960)

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira. ...

Girl in the Glass (1960)

This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small factory to support his family. The friendship that had blossomed between them eventually grew into love. Yet the purer it was, the more it seemed d ...

Kikenna onna (1959)

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper. ...

Diary of Forsaken Love (1959)

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan. ...

Nonki saiban (1955)

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crim ...

The Cock Crows Twice (1954)

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves. ...

Yasen kangofu (1953)

In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens Yukiko's warmth but also sparks intense jealousy when Nemoto shows Keiko kindness. As the two bond over a shared ...