Keiko Koyanagi
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 07, 1926
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
Known For
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951-09-07
Story of a Beloved Wife
Overview: Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-07
Popularity:
The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
1958-06-15
The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
Overview: When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-15
Popularity:
Asataro the Crow
1956-03-28
Asataro the Crow
Overview: Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-28
Popularity:
The Crucified Lovers
1954-11-23
The Crucified Lovers
Overview: When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
Popularity:
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
1962-02-21
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
Popularity:
Freelance Samurai
1957-12-15
Freelance Samurai
Overview: One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
Popularity:
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
1968-03-20
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
Overview: A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-20
Popularity:
Her Hidden Past
1962-02-21
Her Hidden Past
Overview: Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
Popularity:
Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
1966-11-09
Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
Popularity:
Hiding-Place in the Storm
1971-10-16
Hiding-Place in the Storm
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-16
Popularity:
Gonza the Spearman
1986-01-15
Gonza the Spearman
Overview: The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-15
Popularity:
Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
1962-06-24
Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
Overview: One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
Popularity:
Bonchi
1960-04-14
Bonchi
Overview: Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-14
Popularity:
Clothes of Deception
1951-01-13
Clothes of Deception
Overview: The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-13
Popularity:
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
1969-07-26
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Overview: Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
Popularity:
An Actor's Revenge
1963-01-13
An Actor's Revenge
Overview: In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
Popularity:
Jigoku bana
1957-06-25
Jigoku bana
Overview: Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-25
Popularity:
Sisters of Gion
1956-05-18
Sisters of Gion
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-18
Popularity:
Return of Giant Majin
1966-08-13
Return of Giant Majin
Overview: The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin rises from Lake Yakumo to settle a score of his own.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
Popularity:
Conflagration
1958-09-22
Conflagration
Overview: Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-22
Popularity:
Claws of Iron
1951-02-24
Claws of Iron
Overview: During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-24
Popularity:
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953-12-29
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Overview: Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a demon, seeking revenge on Okoyo
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-29
Popularity:
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965-07-14
Life of Matsu the Untamed
Overview: A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
Popularity:
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954-03-13
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Overview: The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
Popularity:
The Ghost of Yotsuya
1959-07-01
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-01
Popularity:
The Funeral Racket
1968-11-04
The Funeral Racket
Overview: The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-04
Popularity:
Broken Swords
1969-05-30
Broken Swords
Overview: The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-30
Popularity:
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
1956-02-26
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
Overview: It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichikawa Raizo and Katsu Shintaro are magnificent as the two finest young swordsmen in the clan. As they vie for the hand of a beautiful woman their loyalty comes into question during an attack on their lord. When one of them masters the secret technique taught to him by Miyamoto Musashi, it leads to bloody violence that can tear the clan apart! Filled with superb swordplay this rare classic is not to be missed!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
Popularity:
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962-01-21
The Temple of Wild Geese
Overview: Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-21
Popularity:
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963-08-06
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Overview: [Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-06
Popularity:
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1975-05-31
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Overview: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-31
Popularity:
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963-10-05
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Overview: Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
Popularity:
Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
1964-01-09
Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Overview: Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-09
Popularity:
Shinsengumi Chronicles
1963-01-03
Shinsengumi Chronicles
Overview: As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
Popularity:
Island of Horrors
1970-10-14
Island of Horrors
Overview: Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-14
Popularity:
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
1969-03-15
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
Overview: A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. Many test her sword and many die by her skills. She travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-15
Popularity:
The Woman in the Rumor
1954-06-20
The Woman in the Rumor
Overview: Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows interest and starts to woo her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-20
Popularity:
A Lustful Man
1961-03-21
A Lustful Man
Overview: Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-21
Popularity:
Blood End
1969-11-15
Blood End
Overview: Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-15
Popularity:
Zatoichi the Outlaw
1967-08-12
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Overview: When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
Popularity:
Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
1957-09-03
Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
Overview: Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through his tragic end this is the story of a beloved and loyal henchman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-03
Popularity:
Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
1969-12-20
Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Overview: Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-20
Popularity:
A Woman's Testament
1960-01-14
A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
Popularity:
A Geisha
1953-08-12
A Geisha
Overview: Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-12
Popularity:
Ugetsu
1953-03-26
Ugetsu
Overview: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-26
Popularity:
Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
1968-11-06
Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
Overview: It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. Matsuo Kayo, who first rose to international stardom as ‘the supreme ninja’ in “Shogun Assassin” gives an outstanding performance in this clever and exciting caper tale set in the samurai era. Ryuzen agrees to help her, but is he just in it for himself, and is she really who she claims to be? When they come up against Boss Tobei it’s a virtual free-for-all as everyone struggles to walk away with a fortune in gold!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-06
Popularity:
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
1965-12-24
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Overview: Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-24
Popularity:
A Fool's Love
1949-10-16
A Fool's Love
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-16
Popularity: