Known for Acting
Filmography
53 films


Women's Prison for Torture
1971 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison.
The Genius and Delinquent
The Genius and Delinquent
1971 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.


Hazardous Graduation
1970 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.


This Transient Life
1970 · 2h 23m
country: Japan
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.


Ghost of Kasane Swamp
1970 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.


The Angry Sword
1970 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.


The Sea Anemone
1969 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.


Sworn Brothers
1969 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.


Secrets of a Woman's Temple
1969 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for the horror and depravity that takes place behind the convent walls.


The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2
1968 · 1h 21m
country: Japan


Trigger-Happy
1968 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A 72-hour story about a group of rookie police officers and detectives who are candidates for the Mexican Olympic team and are in training camp for shooting competition, as they hunt down a violent criminal.


High School Geisha
1968 · 1h 19m
country: Japan


Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy
1968 · 1h 16m
country: Japan


The Time of Reckoning
1968 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.


The Pit of Death
1968 · 1h 18m
country: Japan
Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.


The Diary of a Sex Counsellor
1968 · 1h 21m
country: Japan


When the Cookie Crumbles
1967 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.


She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966 · 1h 29m
country: Japan


The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again
1966 · 1h 26m
country: Japan


The Forest of No Escape
1965 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.


Sweet Seventeen
1964 · 1h 30m
country: Japan


Modae
1964 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who spends her days in a state of unfulfillment, is gradually attracted to a young playboy, but she is unable to cross the line. One day, her husband proposes to have a child through artificial insemination.
Korekara no sekkusu: Mittsu no Sei
Korekara no sekkusu: Mittsu no Sei
1964
country: Japan
Early pinku.


Green Fruit
1964 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears


Black Trump Card
1964 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.


Kono michi akashingō
1964 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
This film depicts women who throw themselves into the world of call girls as an easy way to make a living and seek pleasure, only to ruin their lives through money and sex.


Lips of Ruin
1963 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as “Black Parking Lot”.


She Came For Love
1963 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.


Bury Me Deep
1963 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.


Black Report
1963 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.


Order of Yakuza
1962 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Order of Yakuza


Being Two Isn't Easy
1962 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.


A Night to Remember
1962 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.


Closing Time
1962 · 1h 39m
country: Japan


Aru kankei
1962 · 1h 18m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie


Yume de aritai
1962 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie


Their Legacy
1962 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.


Otoko no meigara
1961 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
A unique literary work depicting the crisis in the love and physical relationship of the ordinary Shimura couple.


A Wife Confesses
1961 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.


Okoto and Sasuke
1961 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.


A Design for Dying
1961 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.


Triangle Moods
1961 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.


Marriageable Age
1961 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s roof. As they balance their personal desires against the family's obsession with status, their search for "marriageable age" stability is complicated by secret affairs and the cold reality of arranged matches. They must ultimately decide whether to conform to the rigid expectations of their upper-class upbringing or break away to pursue their own independence.


The Ginza Three Boys
1961 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.


Kirai Kirai Kirai
1960 · 1h 31m
country: Japan


The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.


The Cast-Off
1959 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)


Tasogare no Tokyo Tower
1959 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and lovely young girl first discovers love in the twilight of Tokyo Tower.


The Most Valuable Wife
1959 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...


Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei
1958 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
1958 Japanese movie


A Grain of Wheat
1958 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.


Giants and Toys
1958 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.


Dohyō monogatari
1958 · 1h 19m
country: Japan