Keiko Yanagawa
Birthday: Born in 1936-04-11 in
Deathday: Alive
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たまゆら
Character: 治彦の妻・しず子
The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires. From a story written for television by Yasunari Kawabata....
Movie Credits
The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru
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1962 Japanese movie...
Romance Express
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Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku....
Beyond the Hills
Character: Takeko Hayashi
Story of young love in the hills....
Living Skeleton
Character: Sanae Suetsugu
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths......
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
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1961 Japanese movie...
Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
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1961 Japanese movie...
Mutchan
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Aruhi watashi wa
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The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori....
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
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A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detective Kiyoshi Atsumi heads to Tokyo, but... The upstart Keiju Kobayashi, his old friend Etsuko Ichihara, and Atsumi. The postwar experiences of three people who were tossed about by the war overlap. The screenplay by Satoru Hayasaka, the music by Kousuke Kanno, and above all, the performances of Atsumi and Ichihara make this a masterpiece in the his...
Anything For Success
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A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a foreign visitor by setting him up with a beautiful "model" (Tsukasa), actually a bar hostess, but the plan backfires when the would-be executive falls for the woman himself....
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
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1962 Japanese movie...
The Big Boss
Character: Yoko
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive....
The Long Death
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On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident....
The Lonely Olympics
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This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly, and even the university he got into after failing the entrance exam twice is on the verge of repeating the year. One day, a high school classmate and friend who graduated from Tokyo University and got a job at a top bank is invited to his wedding re...
Woman of Design
Character: Kazuko Otake
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm....
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
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A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story....
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Character: Yukiko
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older....
The Driverless Hearse
Character: Kuramori Masako
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His Scarlet Cloak
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The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among whom is the local governor, a timid creature, who is dominated by his high-born and beautiful wife, who dresses in a scarlet battle-tunic, a sign of his family's military merit around which he fabricates fantastic tales of his prowess in war. During the traditional festival when the villagers are released from observance of all social customs and rest...
Spring Has Come
Character: Tadokoro
Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting ca...
Japan's No. 1 Playboy
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The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series....
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Character: Noriko Matsuda
An Ishiro Honda film....
Chûshingura
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....
Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
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Film distributed by ATG....
All About Marriage
Character: Saeko Watanabe
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister....
The Young Ace in Hawaii
Character: 英子
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii....
A Bird of Africa
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A group of kids find interest in birdwatching....
Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
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Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi...
Boku dōshite namida ga deru no
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1965 Japanese movie...
New Third-Class Executive
Character: Fumiko Furuike
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right....
Sebiro Sanshirō otoko wa dokyō
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1961 Japanese movie...
Sebiro Sanshirō hana no ippon zeoi
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1961 Japanese movie...
The Morgue Murderer
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Girls Behind Bars
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A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a lodge during a blizzard. This ski action romp has the tempo of a musical, and Okamoto Kihachi's style is on full display. Tsuruta Koji makes a special appearance as a senior member of the mountain club....
A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
Character: Kosuzu
A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s honor—until a last-minute comeback restores both....
The Tenth Game of New Salarymen
Character: Junko Sugai
A young salesman wins over a rival ink company while falling for the president’s daughter. Drawn into kendo rivalries and pressured to lose, he chooses integrity—earning both success and love....
Devices Stronger Than Women
Character: Kimiko Yoshino (Hinode Life Secretary)
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company. PR staffer Takayama opposes it, but his girlfriend Eiko, the show’s host, supports the idea. On opening night, PR manager Sugishita is forced to join the contest, where husbands fail miserably at household chores. Frustrated, the men later gather to complain about their domineering wives, only to be confronted by a carefree stranger who teaches them absurd tricks to “stand up to women.”...