Sumie Sasaki
Empire of Passion
as OdameIn a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a...
Movie pageOne Million Yen Girl
as Fujii KinuA 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her...
Movie pageThe Insect Woman
as EnA woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...
Movie pageTokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as uncreditedAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age...
Movie pagePitfall
as ShopkeeperA man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a...
Movie pageThe Flowers of Evil
as uncreditedA high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a...
Movie pageZigeunerweisen
as Maid at a HotelA surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go...
Movie pageThe Oil-Hell Murder
as uncreditedThe indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a...
Movie pageRed Finger
as uncreditedA 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find...
Movie pageTeacher and Stray Cat
as uncreditedFollowing the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat...
Movie pageBakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Yaeko Numata (Episode 1)Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his...
Movie pageSayonara Midori-chan
as uncreditedNaive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a...
Movie pageSpring Bell
as uncreditedRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
Movie pageBad Girl Mako
as uncreditedPatronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night...
Movie pageTales of Terror: Haunted Apartment
as uncreditedAimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not...
Movie pagePatisserie Coin De Rue
as uncreditedA disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work....
Movie pageBlood and Sea
as Kura, Mother of NamiThe Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...
Movie pageThe Woman Who Took the Local Paper
as Shiota HisakoA man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident,...
Movie pageA Full Life
as Reiko MorishitaA woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest...
Movie pageThe Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as uncreditedA freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly":...
Movie pageBlossoms Bloom
as uncreditedWork life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began...
Movie pageLive Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
Movie pageBad Girl
as uncreditedWakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....
Movie pageSpecial Boy Soldiers of the Navy
as uncreditedJapanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the...
Movie pageFarewell to the Land
as Junko's motherYukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his...
Movie pageThe Serialist
as uncreditedIppei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing...
Movie pageOkinawa
as uncreditedA group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of...
Movie pageThe Great Department Store Robbery
as uncreditedKatsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
Movie pageThe Life of Chikuzan
as MaidA 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player...
Movie pageMorning Fog
as uncreditedKyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in...
Movie pageTales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Episode Competition
as uncreditedTomorrow Evening
as uncreditedAyako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her...
Movie pageMiracle in Four Days
as uncreditedDvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting...
Movie page1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
as NeighborSci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as...
Movie pageMiniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
Movie pageA Chain of Islands
as EikoWhen a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...
Movie pageKikenna onna
as uncreditedBased on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
Movie pageGondola
as Ryo's motherRyo came from Aomori Prefecture to Tokyo. He works as a window washer for high-rise buildings....
Movie pageChildren on the Island
as Oishi's motherThe story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that...
Movie pageTales of the Bizarre: 2007 Fall Special
as Tokiko YasumuraHosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2007 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1....
Movie pageA Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
Movie pageLike a Savage
as TamikoYoung writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out...
Movie pageMomi's House
as uncreditedMomi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility...
Movie pageShadow of intimidation
as Matsue NakamuraFour henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They...
Movie pageWar and Flowers
as uncreditedJapanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
Movie pageChivalrous Life
as uncreditedIn the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the...
Movie pageOh My God
as uncreditedHana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her...
Movie pageYearning
as OsawaFamed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the...
Movie pageKokoro no sanmyaku
as uncreditedA film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...
Movie pageLonely Heart
as uncreditedA police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying...
Movie pageKamen Rider
as GrandmaTakeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams...
TV Show pageCSI: Crime Scene Talks
as uncreditedSatoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...
TV Show pageMy Husband is a Cartoonist
as uncreditedThe 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura...
TV Show pageKimi no na wa
as 角倉信枝A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
TV Show pageSegodon
as Ishi (Kumakichi's grandmother)Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai...
TV Show pageAtsuhime
as uncreditedThe 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture,...
TV Show pageMIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
as Minegishi ShizueOne day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi...
TV Show pageTokyo Tower
as uncreditedA story about a young man named Masaya, whose lifelong dream is to go build a life in Tokyo....
TV Show pageMatrilineal Family
as Kane YajimaA generations old family business is sent into turmoil when the sudden death of the head of the...
TV Show pageSasurai Onsen Endo Kenichi
as uncreditedEndo Kenichi is rumoured to have announced his retirement from acting. Staff head somewhere to...
TV Show pagePrecious Moments
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the daily lives of three women of the marriageable age who are desperately...
TV Show pageYumechiyo Nikki
as uncreditedThis is a human drama that captures the lives of Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam who has been...
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