Yoshie Shimamura

The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop (1987)

A jewelry broker is killed and a large amount of money is stolen. A female detective from the Metropolitan Police Department transforms into a geisha to catch the criminal. ...

Evidence of the Devil (1986)

A wife remarries after her doctor husband dies in a stormy lake, but is distressed when he appears in her dreams every night. ...

Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life. ...

Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)

Lonely and awkward, Giovanni struggles with his sick mother, absent father, and an afterschool job that isolates him from his peers. But on the night of the Festival of Stars, he is magically transported onto a celestial train with his only friend, Campane ...

Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken (1984)

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case. ...

Barefoot Gen (1983)

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. ...

Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi (1983)

Eighteen Years, to the Sea (1979)

Struggling with money, violence and social pressure, a couple of youngsters are drawn to dangerous games of death. ...

Double Suicide at Nishijin (1977)

Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behin ...

The Life of Chikuzan (1977)

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with ...

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1976)

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he's sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattr ...