Sumiko Fuji
Sumiko Fuji (富司 純子 Fuji Sumiko, born 1 December 1945) is a Japanese actress. The daughter of a producer at the Tōei studios, she originally began acting under the name Junko Fuji (藤 純子), becoming famous as the female lead in yakuza films against such stars as Ken Takakura and Kōji Tsuruta. She even starred in her own series as the knife-wielding gambler Red Peony (the "Hibotan Bakuto" or "Red Peony Gambler" series). Initially retiring in 1972 after getting married, she began appearing on TV in 1974 using the name "Sumiko Fuji." She later returned to films and expanded her acting repertoire. She won a Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actress in 1999 and 2006. She is married to the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII and is the mother of the actress Shinobu Terajima and the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sumiko Fuji , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Summer Wars
as Sakae Jinnouchi (voice)A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending...
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Children of the Sea
as Dede (voice)Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two...
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Air Doll
as ChiyokoA life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she...
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Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death
as Kazue (as Junko Fuji)Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the...
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13 Assassins
as KayoA sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
as O-RyuA local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
as Ryuko Yano/Oryu-The Red PeonyJunko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey...
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Hula Girls
as Chiyo TanikawaYoung women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building...
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A Loving Husband
as Reiko InoueSchoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by...
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Wait and See
as KimiyiA salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
as Ryuko YanoThe industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...
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The Chivalrous Life
as OfujiRyoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as TsurujiThe Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....
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Twilight: Saya in Sasara
as OnatsuA drama about a struggling young widow with a baby whose dead husband returns to the world of...
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Red Peony Gambler
as Hibotan no RyuRyuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
as uncreditedA boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of...
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Lady Maiko
as Chiharu KojimaCountry bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
as Matsuko InugamiInugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
as uncreditedHidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
as uncreditedA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his...
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The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
as Reiko TakayamaRemake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a...
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Nunnery Confidential
as uncreditedErotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
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Falling Camellia
as uncreditedDuring the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the...
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The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy
as uncreditedYagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination...
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Big Time Gambling Boss
as HiroeTokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
as Red Peony OryuThe third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
as uncreditedThe Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Last Kamikaze
as Shizuko MunakataWith World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step...
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
as MotherThe Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a...
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Prison Boss
as uncreditedRival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
as uncreditedThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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April Fools
as Royal MadamAyumi Nitta is a member of a hospital cleaning staff and suffers from extreme social anxiety....
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
as uncreditedThe tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a...
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Tasmania Story
as uncreditedEiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As...
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The Geisha House
as SatoeSet in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story...
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Buddies
as TamiBased on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a...
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Bloodiest Flower
as uncreditedA dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine...
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Murder on the Orient Express
as Fuji HatoriThe Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
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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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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
as Haruko OkadaA Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of...
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
as Ririko MotokiIn the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Yukiko MatsuhashiAn early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
as uncreditedJirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
as OryuOryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes...
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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
as お仲A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the...
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A Lively Geisha
as KoshizuYoung geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago...
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Samurai Geisha
as ShinjiPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
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Brave Red Flower of the North
as uncreditedAn exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of...
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Code of Ruffians
as uncreditedBecause of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or...
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
as O-minoThree tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
as uncreditedThe Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
as uncreditedThe third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
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Garden of Camellias
as KinukoThe story centers on Kinuko who lives together with her granddaughter Nagisa in the house she...
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
as uncreditedBunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan...
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Gambler
as OsatoThe main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is...
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DIVOC-12
as uncredited"DIVOC-12" is a project by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. to produce an omnibus consisting of...
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Code Between Brothers 3
as uncreditedA man finds great camaraderie while traveling.
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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedRichshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha,...
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The Domain
as uncreditedThe feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of...
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Gambler's Legacy
as uncreditedA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
as TakakoThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
as Hanae ishimotoA group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
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Histories of the Chivalrous
as uncreditedA Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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Blood of Revenge
as HatsueOsaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...
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Silk Hat Boss
as OryuIn a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like...
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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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Human Torpedoes
as uncreditedStory of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end...
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The Drifting Gambler
as Kohide8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
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A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
as uncreditedJust released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling...
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Dream Maker
as uncreditedMasato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious...
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Team of Ruffians
as uncreditedPrisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
as uncreditedThis is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
as uncreditedWith his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of...
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Hoodlum Match
as uncreditedA good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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The Japan Derby Race
as uncreditedA story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
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Gamblers and Racketeers
as uncreditedKomatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
as uncreditedYakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.
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The Detective Fencer
as uncreditedYoung swordsman Shintaro must fight against evil officials who plot to overthrow the youthful...
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Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
as Shizu Tezuka (as Sumiko Fuji)Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
as Tsumagoi OkomaTaking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling...
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Milk White
as uncreditedTakayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's...
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
as uncreditedThird part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's...
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The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja
as uncreditedThe famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedThe film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
as Takiko YanoThe seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the...
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Yakuza Vassal
as uncreditedA young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
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Shingo's Final Duel
as uncreditedAfter Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest...
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The Boss
as uncreditedTeruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
as uncreditedTetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and...
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Gambler Biography
as KasuyaHistorical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.
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House of Gamblers
as uncreditedKen Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden...
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The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
as uncreditedThe life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb...
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Teppan
as uncreditedTeppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora....
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Heart of a Samurai
as uncreditedTenchijin is the 48th NHK Taiga drama. It airs on NHK from January 4, 2009 every Sunday from...
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune
as Shizuka GozenThe chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late...
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The History of Our Family
as Maki YameWagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April...
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Wind of the Ryūkyū Islands
as uncreditedThe series tells The story of the 1609 invasion of Ryûkyû by forces from the Japanese domain of...
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Murder on the Orient Express
as uncreditedThe Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
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A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi
as SumakoEight fictional holidays are taken by actor Ryoma Takeuchi. While taking a break from filming,...
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Fake Marriage
as Kanae Himura45-year-old Hiro Kamon works as a librarian because she loves books. Although she is worshiped...
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Ooku
as uncreditedThe Ooku of Edo Castle was a mysterious existence that could not be seen from the outside for...
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