Yûko Tanaka
Yuko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television, after she graduated from Meiji University.
Princess Mononoke
as Eboshi Gozen (voice)Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must...
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Monster
as Makiko FushimiWhen her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something...
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Tales from Earthsea
as Cob (voice)Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to...
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The Rape
as Michiko YahagiYahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the...
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Edo Porn
as OeiThe world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income,...
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Backwater
as JinkoToma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend....
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One Night
as Koharu InamuraA family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten...
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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
as Momoko HidakaIn 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They...
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Midnight Diner
as Machiko TsukaguchiA restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a...
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Fifth Movement
as uncreditedWhen a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of...
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Thousand and One Nights
as Tomiko WakamatsuTomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago,...
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
as Kinoshita's motherKeisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most...
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Dearest
as Yoko ShimakuraThe posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her...
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Homeland
as TomikoJiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a...
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Gift of Fire
as uncreditedTowards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb...
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The Buried Forest
as uncreditedThree high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local...
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Capone Cries a Lot
as Kozome TakonoyaUmiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of...
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The Island of Cats
as YoshieDaikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived...
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The Firefly
as Tomoko YamaokaJapanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look...
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The Rainbow Seeker
as uncreditedA young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in...
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Amagi Pass
as Hana Otsuka, prostituteJapan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha...
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Hibi
as Kiyoko KoyamaHibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up....
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The Homeless Student
as Michiyo KawaiBased on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience...
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The Whispered City
as FukukoDirector Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa,...
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Demon
as KeikoShuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways,...
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Haru's Journey
as Aiko ShimizuStuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo,...
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The Milkwoman
as uncreditedMinako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering...
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Through Their Eyes
as uncreditedA compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding...
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The Bleep Brothers
as ToyokoTatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief,...
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Why Not?
as OmatsuThe film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in...
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Wuthering Heights
as KinuYoung Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his...
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Haruko's Doll
as Tomita ShizukoIn the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned...
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Hana's Miso Soup
as Toyoka YamaokaYasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That...
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Osaka Story
as Shimotsuki, HarumiYoung Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20...
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Tora-san, the Expert
as KeikoTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
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Daddy Long Legs
as ジュディAn orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who...
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Children on the Island
as Hisako OishiThe story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that...
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Wild Geese
as uncreditedIn the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house...
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Oshin
as Oshin (16 to 46 years old)Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from...
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Mare
as Okesaku FumiMare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before...
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Sister Ma
as Isono MachikoA serialized television series, aired in 1979, based on Hasegawa Machiko's "Sazae-san...
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The Firmament of the Pleiades
as Empress Dowager Ci XiTwo young men looking for a better life enter the royal palace in the midst of a tumultuous...
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Mother
as Mochizuki HanaYasuko Matsuyuki plays the part of Nao Suzuhara, an elementary school teacher. When she realizes...
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Wakaba
as uncreditedThe story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes....
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anone
as Anone HayashidaA solitary young woman and a lonely widow make a tentative connection as a pile of fake money...
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As If In Flight
as uncreditedHistorical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.
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Love with a Case
as Azuki KoaraiDetective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets...
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Woman
as Sachi UesugiAfter the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu...
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Precious Moments
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the daily lives of three women of the marriageable age who are desperately...
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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
as uncreditedThrough the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...
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Ties: A Miraculous Colt
as Kayoko MatsushitaBased on novel "Kizuna ~ Aru Jinba no Monogatari~” by Akihiro Shimada (published from June, 2012...
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Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version)
as Nakagawa EikoAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, the gentle coming-of-age...
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