Jitsuko Yoshimura
Jitsuko Yoshimura (吉村実子 Yoshimura Jitsuko, born 18 April 1943) is a Japanese actress. She was discovered by Shohei Imamura as a newcomer and cast in the film Pigs and Battleships. She went on to appear in The Insect Woman and Onibaba. She retired from acting in 1970, but returned in 1980 and continues to work to this day.
Onibaba
as Young WomanWhile her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai...
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Sadako
as Old WomanA psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl...
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The Insect Woman
as NobukoA woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...
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Dodes'ka-den
as Yoshie KawaguchiThis film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...
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Pigs and Battleships
as HarukoIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...
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Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
as Lybia (voice)Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as EiStruggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...
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Red Lion
as OyouJapan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows,...
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If You Were Young: Rage
as uncreditedIf You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on...
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All About Our House
as Mitsuyo IwataTwo newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to...
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Samurai Spy
as OmiyoYears of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke...
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Oshin
as Naka TanimuraA young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's...
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The Devil's Path
as Kazuko FujiiDeath-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a...
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An Innocent Witch
as uncreditedAyako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her...
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The Promised Land
as uncreditedA girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same...
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O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
as TetsukoAfter an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to...
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The Bogus Policeman
as uncreditedToramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is...
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
as uncreditedBased on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
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Signal Fool
as uncreditedThe main character is Isamu (Hideaki Machida), a sixth grader . Isamu lost his mother in a car...
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Hoshi wo tsugu mono
as Keiko YoshidaAn old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.
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The Night of the Seagull
as uncreditedA woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder...
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Box: The Hakamada Case
as Kinu HakamadaBased on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years...
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Mother
as uncreditedFrom the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated,...
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Coquille
as Kimie FujisakiThirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no...
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A Gap in the Skin
as GrandmotherA young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
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Bad Girls of Japan
as uncreditedAre bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the...
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dele
as uncreditedFreelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a...
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Wakko no kin medaru
as 母・千代The 43th NHK Asadora about a female volleyball player who helps out the local community....
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A-Un
as uncreditedSenkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are...
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Jūkyūsai
as uncreditedDaisuke dropped out of high school, and his motorcycle was the only thing that helped him cope...
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