Ruriko Asaoka
Ruriko Asaoka (浅丘 ルリ子 Asaoka Ruriko), born 2 July 1940 in Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin, China), is a Japanese actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruriko Asaoka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Thirst for Love
as EtsukoA young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as Yukiko GodaiSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Goyokin
as OrihaA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Safari 5000
as uncreditedA Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...
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Vixen
as MichiMichi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school,...
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47 Ronin
as RikuKon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is...
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The Professor and His Beloved Equation
as WidowThis is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as LilyThe 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the...
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Red Handkerchief
as uncreditedA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the...
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The Walking Major
as Setsuko TakiguchiU.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan,...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Yukiko GodaiThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Noriko KomatsuFormer boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow...
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Incident at Blood Pass
as OkuniIn the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait....
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Tales of Ginza
as RurikoIn the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
as Hideko MatsudaMega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a...
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The Green Music Box
as RurikoRuriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family...
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The Gun Like Lightning
as ReikoSadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just...
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Four Young Sisters
as Yuki KomuraThree girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from...
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Confessions Among Actresses
as Aki KaidoIn this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
as Miwako KazukiA youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira...
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My Sweetheart
as AssistantIt had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by...
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The Rambler in the Sunset
as uncreditedThe young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
as uncredited"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
as uncreditedA great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there...
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Mokuyo Kumikyoku
as uncreditedA closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer...
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The Rambling Guitarist
as YukiArriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the...
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Sun Above, Death Below
as uncreditedSuspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
as LilyTora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged...
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Shadow Hunters
as ChitoseSet during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
as AkikoIn a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who...
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Fangs of Night
as uncreditedA young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some...
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The Boy Who Came Back
as Кадзуэ СугитаNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
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Asia-Pol
as SachikoYang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter...
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A Story Written with Water
as Yumiko HashimotoStruggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about...
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A Man Explodes
as uncreditedKensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains....
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Yukiko GodaiFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Challenge for Glory
as uncreditedA young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his...
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Velvet Hustler
as uncreditedA young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He...
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
as uncreditedSet in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to...
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Dancing Sisters
as Akiko TakiIt’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...
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Gene Waltz
as Maria SaegusaDoctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in...
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The Flame of Devotion
as Kiyono KusakaThe tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a...
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A Warm Misty Night
as Akiko KitazawaWhen Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his...
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The Rambler Rides Again
as uncreditedIn this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to...
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Friendship of Jazz
as Chiaki TomookaKenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time...
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Jûnana-sai no teikô
as uncreditedKanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a...
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Dendera
as Kayu SaitoFifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to...
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The Tale of Genji
as Lady MurasakiAn eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago....
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Love Eternal
as Ayako KambayashiA deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an...
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
as uncreditedStory of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
as Midori IshiiWhen Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a...
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Exiled to Hell
as Koshin KataokaIt is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the...
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Song of Dawn
as Noriko MidorikawaMusical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then...
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Fresh Leaves
as Sumiko HashimotoKeiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a...
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Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
as uncreditedHideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.
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The Rambler Goes North
as uncreditedIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...
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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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Alone Across the Pacific
as Youth's SisterKenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific...
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Danger Pays
as Tomoko AkiyamaJoe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty...
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I Hate But Love
as Noriko SakakitaA celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves...
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He's the Witness
as uncreditedTakuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the...
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Return of the Vagabond
as uncreditedThe 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler,...
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Rambling in the Sea
as uncreditedSeventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
as uncreditedThe Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
as LilyCarrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While...
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Dice and Swords
as uncreditedThe year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything...
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Immortal Guy
as uncreditedKosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
as uncreditedRambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old...
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The Plateau Man
as uncreditedJapanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
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Man of a Stormy Era
as uncreditedThe early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as LilyOn the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
as uncreditedIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as LilyTora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her...
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Wind of Volcano
as uncreditedAn airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route...
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The Girl I Abandoned
as uncreditedTsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...
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I Will Challenge
as uncreditedAkira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of...
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Prince of Wolves
as Yoko KikuchiAs the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers...
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The Lost Diamond
as uncreditedTwo men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
as uncreditedPlans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as LilyWhen cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...
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Forbidden Lips
as uncreditedA youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a...
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In Tears
as uncreditedHiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town...
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Invitation from the Beach
as Natsuko KurahashiA wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and...
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Asiapol Secret Service
as Kyoko MisakiA major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of...
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Sixteen years old
as uncreditedSenko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the...
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Hawk of the Harbour
as uncreditedA Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets...
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I Fly for Kicks
as uncreditedA musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.
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Again
as uncreditedAn anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie...
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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
as uncreditedStrife between competing lumber mills.
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The Angry Rambler
as uncreditedFourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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Ryoma ga Yuku
as OryoThe chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan....
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Kashin
as IrieCentered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the...
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Sexy Voice and Robo
as Maki MakyonaHayashi Niko is a mature middle school student with heightened hearing and the ability to mimic...
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川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
as uncreditedNHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories...
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Yasuragi no Sato A Peaceful Place
as uncreditedThe drama is set in an retirement home named "Yasuragi no Sato La Strada" where only those who...
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Suika
as Natsuko SakiyaSuika, which means watermelon, is a Japanese television drama about four roommates, played by...
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