Kaoru Yumi
Also Known As: Yumiko Nishitsuji
Biography: Karou Yumi, is a Japanese actress. At age 12, Yumi joined the Nishino Ballet Group Talent Agency, and by age 16 she was acting in the TV program 11PM and the Nikkatsu production Extinguish The Night Rose. In 1974, Yumi landed a lead role in two of the most successful films that year: Prophecies of Nostradamus and ESPY, along with the television series for Submersion of Japan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: November 12, 1950
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Gender: Female
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The Vampire Inspector
Overview: During the reign of the 11th Shogun, a series of supernatural incidents occur every night in the Edo Castle. A beautiful inspector appears with thunder and lightning to suck people’s blood and kill them. The examiner’s true identity is Amakusa Shiro, a young samurai from the Amakusa clan that was destroyed by the harsh Christian persecution of the Shogunate. Shirō sold his soul to the devil and became an evil spirit. After 160 years since destruction of Amakusa, his revenge to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate begins.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-07
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ESPY
Overview: The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Kill the Night Rose
Overview: An entertaining but silly and fairly forgettable action film with much tongue-in cheek James Bond influence
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
Overview: The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Fairy Beauty
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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The Tide Does Not Return
Overview: Reiji and Takashi, although they are brothers, differ from each other like fire and water - Reiji is an empath, and Takashi will use anybody, to get as far up the social ladder as possible. Soon, Takashi dumps his girlfriend Mie to marry the daughter of a certain businessman. Disgusted with this fact, Reiji starts helping the girl. He's even more indignant when he discovers that Mie is terminally ill. From now on, he does everything to make Mie's last days as good as possible, and repay the family, which humiliated woman so much.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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The Phoenix
Overview: This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.
Genres: Adventure Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-12
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Shogun's Harem: The Mansion of Evil Spirits
Overview: In the era of the ninth shogun, Ieshige, the Ooku of Edo Castle was a world of only women, with Tokiwa at the head and numbering up to a thousand. The town girl Otoshi catches the eye of Oitsu-no-kata and is brought into the Ooku. Oitsu receives the favor of Ieshige and is blessed with an heir, but Oko-no-kata resents Oitsu to the point of wanting to curse her to death. At that time, rumors of an evil spirit in the unopened room spread throughout the Ooku.
Genres: Drama Horror History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-04
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Lemon Girls on the Go
Overview: Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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Living Together
Overview: Two former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living together. With great care for their feelings, the two embark on a genuine love affair, expressed through their taboo and tension-filled cohabitation. Whilst hurting each other, they continue to explore the boundaries of their relationship in this boldly controversial film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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Skyscraper Murder Case
Overview: Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control of the hotel, blackmail and jealousy. The principals involved are two business partners, a political string puller and his son, lovers carrying on an illicit affair and a secretary turned blackmailer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-03
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The Shinano River
Overview: Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-22
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The Stormy Man
Overview: A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-03
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Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus
Overview: A documentary about the 1974 film Prophecies of Nostradamus, released to coincide with the latter's release. It featured several prophets and experts on meteorology and food ecology giving their respective takes on the 1999 apocalypse which Nostradamus predicted. Performers Hiroshi Itsuki, Shizue Abe and Linda Yamamoto appeared as well as the film's stars, Tetsuro Tanba, Yoko Tsukasa, Toshio Kurosawa and Yumi Kaoru.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-25
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Overview: Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
Genres: Drama Action Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-03
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The Instant Services Bureau
Overview: Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-07
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Kurama Tengu no Otoshiyori no Kotsu Anzen
Overview: Jun Hashizume and Goro Ibuki appear in this traffic historical drama that will allow the elderly to reconfirm traffic safety. From an accident that occurs in the town of Kyo at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate while talking with the Shinsengumi and the party, knowledge and traffic rules necessary for the elderly to avoid traffic accidents can be learned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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原色の蝶は見ていた・死の匂い
Overview: One night, a passenger car driven by Kyoko hit and killed a woman. Her husband, Dr. Nogami, who was a passenger in the car, hid the body in the grass and they returned home. Soon after, an autopsy by the police revealed the identity of the woman. A few days later, the woman's lover, Ueda, calls Nogami demanding that he keep quiet.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
Overview: In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, calling his words heresy and his wife flees with a book of Nostradamus’s predictions… In the present day, Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre goings on which seem all to familiar to the prophet's predictions…
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-18
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