Yumiko Nogawa
Yumiko Nogawa, born August 30, 1944, is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably Gate of Flesh (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including Story of a Prostitute (1965) and Carmen from Kawachi (1966), these films are known as Nogawa's "Flesh Trilogy". Nogawa has appeared in numerous films in Japan, including director Nagisa Oshima's The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) and Zatoichi & the Fugitives (1968), the eighteenth film in the Zatoichi series. She has also appeared in television series on Nippon Television, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV, and NHK. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yumiko Nogawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Gate of Flesh
as MayaIn the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of...
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Story of a Prostitute
as HarumiVolunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as KaoruWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as OumeNear the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards...
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The Sea Is Watching
as OmineO-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers....
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Pleasures of the Flesh
as HitomiA corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
as uncreditedThe fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara...
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The Geisha House
as MichikoSet in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story...
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Hoodlum Soldier
as uncreditedA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in...
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
as OakiZatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
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A Certain Killer
as KeikoA former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the...
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The Start of Life
as YurikoA young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
as Nakai KikuIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
as uncreditedA flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime...
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Gambling Kitten
as Yukiko EguchiArikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a...
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Carmen from Kawachi
as Tsuyuko TakedaLike a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a...
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The Book Peddler
as Sachi TodaSuzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a...
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Killer's Mission
as KageroIchibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to...
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The Shogun's Vault II
as uncreditedA mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of...
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Woman Gambler
as Yukiko EguchiMourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During...
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Gray Sunset
as Nobue KanekoGrandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when...
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
as Yukiko EguchiYukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that...
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Four and A Half Mats
as Kimi YoneyamaFukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
as Mari AoyamaAn exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007)...
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Female Ninja Magic
as Princess SenIn Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's...
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Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
as Ocho AgehaNonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete...
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Human Scramble: Delinquent
as uncreditedBased on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
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Born Under Crossed Stars
as Taneko YamagaA young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the...
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Golden Ninja
as KozueJust after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
as Maki NogamiThis is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji,...
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
as uncreditedAfter World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza...
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The Ghostly Trip
as uncreditedThe 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the...
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The Path of the King
as OwakaWhen the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members...
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Sea of Wandering
as uncreditedSet in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who...
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Three Wild Cats
as uncreditedThree women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and...
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man
as Ocho AgehaThe story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake,...
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Duel in the Storm
as Okyô KawanagaIt is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to...
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BGs of Ginza
as YukaStory of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
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Easy Money
as uncreditedAn action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.
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Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
as OrenRumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu...
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A Modern Yakuza: Broken Code
as uncreditedA young yakuza soldier is torn between staying in his current life or leaving his family when...
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Onna no hanamichi
as uncreditedA film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by...
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Downtown Blues
as uncreditedThe desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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The Actress vs. the Greedy Sharks
as Miss RanFramed by his enemies, Manbe finds himself imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit. His only...
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Yanagase Blues
as Midori TsutsuiJiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
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Kokoru wa Itsumo Ramune Iro
as 赤津のぶ（文平の母）The 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of...
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Professional Killers
as GinA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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Masamune Shogun
as uncreditedBroadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the...
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Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
as uncreditedIn this gripping period drama, Matsudaira Ukon, the younger brother of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun...
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as OtsumaMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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Nemuri Kyoshiro
as uncreditedThirteen years after his mother took her own life as a ritual sacrifice for the Black Mass,...
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The Last Cinderella
as Setsuko TakenouchiSakura is a single 39-year-old woman who works as the assistant manager at a beauty salon. She...
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Abare Isha Ranzan
as uncreditedA doctor whose mission is to save lives stands up for the weak in the midst of suffering and...
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Hadaka no Taishō
as uncreditedA new dramatization of "Hadaka no Taishō (The Naked General)" series about the wandering painter...
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