Yoko Minakaze
Also Known As: Yôko Minakaze , Minakaze Youko, みなかぜ ようこ, 若杉洋子, わかすぎ ひろこ, Wakasugi Hiroko
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 22, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 19, 2007
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Aoi sanmyaku
Overview: Remake of 1949 film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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The Angry Rambler
Overview: Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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その人は炎のように
Overview: Film by Deme Masanobu
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-05
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Hajimete no Tabi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-09
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Girl in the Glass
Overview: The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits roll in and we find out what lead her character to this end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-09
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The Militarists
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Judge and Jeopardy
Overview: It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-08
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The Vampire Doll
Overview: A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-04
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Have Wings on Your Heart
Overview: Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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Yasen kangofu
Overview: Japanese war drama.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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The Women of Osaka Castle
Overview: A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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Red Paper Lantern
Overview: A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-23
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Nonki saiban
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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A Full Life
Overview: A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Hana to musume to shiroi michi
Overview: One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-06
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The Cock Crows Twice
Overview: Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-12
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Kikenna onna
Overview: Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-16
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The Start of Life
Overview: A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Overview: Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Diary of Forsaken Love
Overview: Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-14
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Take Care, Red Riding Hood
Overview: A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-04
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Make-Up
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-02
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Sudachi no toki kyoiku wa shinazu
Overview: Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sase), the son of a doctor in Suwa, and Nobuko (Mayuki Kirihara), the daughter of a weaver in Kyoto, are transferred to the class of Omura (Chiemi Eri), a PE teacher at Shinonoi Asahi High School, a private school for troubled children. The school principal (Hiroyuki Nagato) says that the school's policy of "not letting anyone drop out of school" must be upheld, and Omura struggles to do everything in his power to respond. Based on a true story by Shigeta Wakabayashi, an education critic, the film depicts the relationship between a student abandoned by his parents and a teacher who sincerely deals with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-14
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Half Virgin
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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Boku wa naichicchi
Overview: Ichiro, who works for a shipping company, causes an accident while driving drunk. His younger brother Jiro questions his brother's drinking habits. Upon investigation, Ichiro discovers that his brother is involved in drug trafficking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-21
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