Yoshiko Sakuma

Earthquake Bird (2019)

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography. ...

Mitsuhiko Asami Series 35 - Sakurako in the Wind (2016)

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma (2011)

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort t ...

Letters from Spain (1993)

Estate Inheritance (1990)

The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members. ...

Shingo's Ten Duels (1990)

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are ...

The Makioka Sisters (1983)

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between ...

The House of Hanging (1979)

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind. ...

A Picture of Madame Yuki (1975)

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the downfall of an old aristocratic family, this is the story of its last representant: Lady Yuki. ...

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow (1971)

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition. ...

Will to Conquer (1970)

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration. ...

Sky Scraper! (1969)

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan. ...

Samurai Banners (1969)

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces th ...

Tales of the Inner Chamber (1968)

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle. ...

I Sell My Husband (1968)

Japanese comedy film. ...

My Destiny (1968)

Human Torpedoes (1968)

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War. ...

New Year Trip (1968)

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother. ...

Traveling in Party (1967)

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri. ...

Journey (1967)

The Shogun and His Mistresses (1967)

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period. ...

Classmates (1967)

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II. ...

Express Train (1967)

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that ...

Koto—The Lake of Tears (1966)

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her. ...

Thirst for Love (1966)

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional. ...

Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves (1966)

The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight agai ...

The Flower and the Dragon (1965)

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle. ...

The Kingdom of Jirocho 4 (1965)

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang. ...

Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people bu ...

A Lonely Gamble (1965)

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his proprietress is forced to turn to a successful businessman, owner of entertainment establishments and bars. But ...

The Boss (1965)

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expanding f ...

Two Lives, Two Yakuza (1964)

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ...

An Impudent Man 2 (1964)

A Story from Echigo (1964)

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful. ...

Life of Hishakaku 3 (1964)

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy. ...

The Kingdom of Jirocho 3 (1964)

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings. ...

An Impudent Man (1964)

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. ...

Orders from Hell (1964)

The Kingdom of Jirocho 2 (1963)

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima. ...

A House in the Quarter (1963)

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve Takamatsu, one of the brothel's top customers. But while Takamatsu falls madly in love with Yuko, she fin ...

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance (1963)

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era. ...

The Kingdom of Jirocho 1 (1963)

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and strongest of all the gang bosses, he went on to survi ...

Duel of the Underworld (1963)

Life of Hishakaku 2 (1963)

Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself e ...

Judo Life (1963)

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of judo founder Jigoro Kano (Naoki Sugiura). Akira Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata is based on the same character and ...

Life of Hishakaku (1963)

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family's turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness, Hishakaku swears to dedicate himself to protect the Koganes in time of crisis. Hishakaku's humble life comes to a sud ...

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers (1963)

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop. ...

Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady (1962)

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld. ...

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Operation Diamond (1962)

60s crime film by Masuichi Iizuka ...

Gang vs. G-Men (1962)

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood. ...

Hell's Kitchen (1962)

Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain (1962)

Tokyo's Business District (1962)

Genkuro Yoshitsune (1962)

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo. ...

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

G-Men in the Pacific (1962)

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama. ...

Love School (1962)

Lakeside Figure (1961)

A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako's hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a sudden halt, Minako finds herself in search of new love which in turn leads her into a complicated love t ...

Tale of a Company Boss 3 (1961)

A story about the nature of office workers today. ...

Boss Takes to the Road (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

The Yellow Climate (1961)

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto. ...

Police Precinct Part 17 (1961)

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When ...

Fateful Birthplace (1961)

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino. ...

Himalayan Wanderer (1961)

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss about the fact that the monster that attacked them must be the snow man. Even in Las Vegas, betting began on ...

The Orphan Brother (1961)

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju ...

Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２ (1961)

1961 Toei comedy ...

Tale of a Company Boss (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Red Flowers of Hell (1961)

1961 gangster film. ...

Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō (1961)

Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate). Shot by Nishikawa Shoei (I Am the Magician of Hell). ...

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind (1961)

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work ...

Hell's Juggler (1961)

Devotion to Railway (1960)

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named "Sakura" from Tokyo to Nagasaki... ...

Ponkotsu (1960)

In the shimotsuke town of Tokyo, Honmachi tenkawa Cho continues to take the remains of the car. One of them was inuzuka store where the man loved the machine. ...

The Sand City in Manchuria (1960)

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople. ...

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy (1960)

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers. ...

The Man of Seven Faces (1960)

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case. ...

Secret (1960)

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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3 (1960)

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is disturbed by those who wish to claim his life. This is the third part of "THE 10 DUELS OF YOUNG SHINGO", following ...

The Second Bullet is Marked (1960)

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu. ...

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity (1960)

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company. ...

Hell's Companion (1959)

During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking revenge ...

Hawk of the North (1959)

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune aka the "Hawk of the North" sets his eyes on Hatakeyama's lands. The young warlord is about to face his gr ...

Hahakogusa (1959)

Based on the Nobu Koito story ...

Whirlwind Magistrate (1959)

One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan investigates the tragic shipwreck of the 'Sadomaru' near Cape Kasumigaseki. The ship carrying gold bars from Sado Island to Edo for the shogunate disappeare ...

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face (1959)

A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate num ...

The Happy Family (1959)

Japanese family drama. ...

The Bastards of Lawless Town (1959)

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film. ...

The Acrobats of Death (1959)

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town. ...

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 (1959)

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun Yoshimune. ...

With Songs in My Heart (1958)

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of tho ...

Detective Duel (1958)

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family. ...