Michiyo Yasuda
Michiyo Okusu (大楠 道代, Ōkusu Michiyo, born February 27, 1946) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zatoichi
as Tante OumeBlind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as ShiranuiIn the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors,...
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Bedtime Eyes
as uncreditedBased on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship...
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Kagero-za
as ShinakoA 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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Zigeunerweisen
as Shuko AochiA surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go...
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Hanging Garden
as Satoko KinosakiOn the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they...
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Yumeji
as Owner of a HotelFollowing the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
as OkichiZatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles...
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Spring Snow
as uncreditedBased on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows...
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Love for an Idiot
as uncreditedA middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she...
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Naked Ambition
as uncreditedWicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by...
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Solar Eclipse
as uncreditedWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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BU・SU
as KochouMugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
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Location
as Natsuko / TerukoThe melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
as Akane[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were...
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The Little Runaway
as Michiko SakumaDuring a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin....
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
as uncreditedEleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Born Fighter
as OrinStory about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.
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The Fallen Angel
as Madame RitsukoThe story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him....
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
as AkikoIn late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
as uncreditedSeijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...
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I Never Shot Anyone
as Yayoi IchikawaRenji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two...
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
as uncreditedA man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange...
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
as uncreditedFourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Slaughter in the Snow
as uncreditedIn feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi...
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Woman Gambler Is Coming
as uncreditedSixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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The Sex Check
as uncreditedKen Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by...
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I'm Flash!
as uncreditedRui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain...
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Someday
as Takako KazamatsuriThe annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However,...
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
as uncreditedThe woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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The Freezing Point
as YokoKeizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was...
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Women's Prison
as uncreditedA prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and...
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The Two in Tracksuits
as Ms. ToyamaA son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote...
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The Projects
as Kimiko GyotokuWhether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat,...
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
as uncreditedYasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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The Daring Nun
as Sister ShunkoOne of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she...
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Face
as Ritsuko NakagamiAwkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage...
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Lefty Fencer
as OkinAs a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was...
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Secret Report From A House Of Women
as uncreditedJapanese crime film
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Mission: Iron Castle
as uncreditedThe Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more...
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The Virgin Witness
as Kazue TozakiA father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere...
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Secrets of a Woman's Temple
as uncreditedA woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could...
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The Goofball
as uncreditedHisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a...
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
as YoshikoComedy centered on a stripper agency
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Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison
as uncreditedJapanese crime film
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as OsayaMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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Ōedo Sōsamō
as uncreditedSet against the backdrop of the reign of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari Tokugawa, this drama...
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