Nijiko Kiyokawa
Nijiko Kiyokawa was born on November 24, 1912 in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan as Hana Sekiguchi. She was an actress, known for Pom Poko (1994), and Das kleine Teehaus (1956). She died on May 24, 2002 in Takatsu, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Pom Poko
as Old Fireball / Oroku (voice)The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of...
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Vengeance Is Mine
as Hisano AsanoA thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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The Ballad of Narayama
as OkaneIn a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go...
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Fall Guy
as Yasu's MotherGinshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry...
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The Lower Depths
as Otaki the Candy-SellerResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
as Moribe family matriarchWith the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as YorozuyaIn 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of...
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Miss Higa JigaIn post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
as uncreditedYoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and...
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Farewell to Spring
as Takuya's motherFive longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not...
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The Great Department Store Robbery
as uncreditedKatsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
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All Rascals
as uncreditedIshihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as TsurukoFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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My Sweetheart
as SachiIt had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by...
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
as uncreditedTanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go...
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The Sound of Waves
as Tomi KuboOn a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji...
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Room for Let
as Yasu ShimaWhen Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old...
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Oishinbo
as Masako IdoBased on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
as uncreditedLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...
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The Rough One
as uncreditedA tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a...
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Fantasy of Youth
as uncreditedAdaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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Red Peony Gambler
as uncreditedRyuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...
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Roadside Stone
as OtokiThe Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as uncreditedIn a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
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Journey of Honor
as CounselorThe son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
as uncreditedFierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction...
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お役者変化
as お栄During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar,...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
as Margaret NakataSaheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers...
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
as uncreditedThe deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at...
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
as uncreditedA 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his...
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Return of the Outlaw
as uncreditedSecond film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Yakuza on Foot
as MinekoAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
as uncreditedPart 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi...
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The juvenile
as MotherA good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
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Tenten Musume
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.
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Travelling Actors
as OmitsuThis film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
as uncreditedThe story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
as uncreditedTaro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with...
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The Mysterious Cape
as OtoraRyujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
as uncreditedThe final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
as uncreditedThe industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...
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The Giant
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
as uncreditedA crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and...
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
as uncreditedThe son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
as uncreditedA family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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Sazae And Aunt Apron
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
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Travels of Gonkuro
as uncreditedSugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and...
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Silk Hat Boss
as Kagura no TakaIn a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like...
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A Yakuza Goes Home
as Minako ShimamuraShimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...
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Flower, Storm and Gangster
as MasaA gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the...
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Sazae-san's Baby
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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Scoundrel
as uncreditedShimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
as OtakaThe third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...
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Five Men in a Circus
as OkiyoThe main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring...
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A Tale of Thieves in War Time: Part 1 - Tiger and Wolf
as uncreditedStory of a bandit king.
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大江戸出世双六
as おかんIsshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved...
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Dimple of Tokyo
as Yae KawakamiBuntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life....
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
as uncreditedMasuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in...
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A Story from Echigo
as uncreditedA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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Price of Beauty
as Kayo IzumiMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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Free and Easy Special
as uncreditedApproached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking...
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The School Cap
as uncreditedA Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its...
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
as uncreditedStory of a bandit king part 2.
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The Forest of the Little Bear
as Gen NomuraHunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo...
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Enomoto's Heaven and Hell
as uncreditedKeita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past...
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Our Marriage
as uncreditedWhen two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
as uncreditedPopular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is...
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
as FusakoAs suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of...
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Sazae-san Plays Cupid
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
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The Dangoro Party in the Sky
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great...
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Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza
as OrokuTokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting...
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A Bold Life
as Tatsuko IshiokaDepicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who...
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Good Rascals
as OkenA group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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Nightingale
as The MotherAn episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
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The Yakuza Awaits
as uncreditedForth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Tokyo Omnibus
as uncreditedThe story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...
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Living Image
as uncreditedA film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
as IwakazeA princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant.
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Sazae-san's Marriage
as uncreditedSazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken...
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Screwed
as Candy SellerIt has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually...
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The Swindlers
as uncreditedInteresting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
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Sazae's Engagement Trip
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
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The Ambitious Youth
as uncreditedAs descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to...
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
as uncreditedSazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's...
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Hibari the Traveling Performer
as uncreditedKimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night...
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Enoken's Home Run King
as uncreditedPostwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team,...
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The Magical Warrior
as uncreditedRikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day...
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Drunken Sword
as uncreditedTetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt...
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Nonsense - Fireball Boy Thief
as uncreditedThe story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.
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Love in Ginza
as uncreditedHanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with...
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Tanuki Battle of Awaodori Festival
as uncreditedA tanuki-themed musical.
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The Old Man of the Propeller
as uncreditedThe Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas...
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Composition Class
as MotherBased on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
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Women Can't Be Beaten
as uncreditedAn uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving...
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Fugitive Scoundrel
as uncreditedGokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing...
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Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Yutaka Asou
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3
as uncreditedThird film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
as uncreditedAt the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and...
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New Journey of Yaji and Kita
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa
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Young Tree
as Katsuko, Hiroko's AuntA young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying...
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Dancers of Awa
as uncreditedJurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the...
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Harmonica Boy
as uncreditedThe only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make...
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A Geisha on Horseback
as KiyokaBased on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the...
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Dynamite Doctor Returns
as TsuyakoSecond movie in the yoidore hakase serie
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The Wanderer
as uncreditedAfter killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and...
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Women's Doctor
as uncreditedLife of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women.
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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
as Sumi MuraokaSumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo...
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珍説忠臣蔵
as Toda no TsuboneA comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
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Through the Night
as uncreditedWhen poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the...
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Roppa's Honeymoon
as uncreditedA Kajirô Yamamoto directed comedy starring Roppa Furukawa.
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Enoken’s Boxing Generation
as uncreditedNear the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing...
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Akireta renchû
as uncreditedThe first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a...
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Hi no kuni ni
as 阿蘇の山奥に住む大富豪The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape...
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