Masayo Utsunomiya
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: March 06, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-02
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Wish Upon a Star
Overview: Japanese TV film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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The Shogun's Vault I
Overview: Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold storehouse to avenge the death of his father, who died a violent death at a gold mine on Sado Island. With the help of Hanji, a playboy who took care of him in prison, as his partner, Tomizo decides on the night of fireworks to be held in Edo Castle as the day to carry out his plan. Kanpei, a wise man, is suspicious of the plan.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-14
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Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell
Overview: Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his child’s medical treatment. Five years later, he is allowed to enter Edo with a fresh start. He make ends meet by selling toys. One day, he meets Otoki, a woman who is a lookalike of his late wife and who is being pursued by a mysterious man.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-11
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金融腐蝕列島 再生
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-13
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Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano
Overview: Kaori, a doll hairdresser, is a demonic woman who has been alive for over 900 years. She has maintained her youth by drinking the blood of young men while waiting for her husband, who disappeared shortly after their wedding. However, when Kinosaki, who looks exactly like her husband, uncovers her true identity, Kaori transforms into a terrifying figure.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-17
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Kyoto Yokai Map 2: A 400-Year-Old Ice Woman Living on Kirara Slope
Overview: The frozen corpse of a young apprentice monk is found near Kirara Hill in Rakuhoku. Detective Hayakawa from the Kyoto Prefectural Police grows suspicious of the fact that someone froze to death in the middle of summer and visits his nephew Saburo, who works at a cryogenics research institute. Shortly after, the frozen body of Saburo’s father, Takayoshi, is also discovered. Recently, Takayoshi had been closely involved with a designer named Saori.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-15
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Irezumi
Overview: To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-27
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Botchan
Overview: 1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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The Bullet Train
Overview: A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-05
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Tooku no Sora
Overview: During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time the man and woman fall in love, but the woman disappears. 30 years later, the woman keeps her past a secret and worries that her daughter Mie Matsuki (Rina Uchiyama) may pursue her Korean roots. One day, Mie who already has a fine boyfriend, introduces her mother to a Korean man named Yoo Jung-Bae (Kim Eung-Soo). Yoo Jung-Bae is the man that her mother fell in love with 30 years ago during the Gwangju uprising. During his college days, Yoo Jung-Bae was the leader of the student activist movement. Now he is transferred to an investment company in Tokyo. Mie works at the same investment company. Feeling a bond with Mie, Yoo Jung-Bae walks the streets of Tokyo with Mie every weekend and begins to learn about each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-18
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The River of the Stranger
Overview: A rare film about the Zainichi and the relations between Japan and South Korea. It is the first feature film ever directed by a zainichi director to explore these issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
Overview: Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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西村京太郎スペシャル 日本一周「旅号」殺人事件
Overview: Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-20
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After School
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Non-ko
Overview: Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Woman Mandala
Overview: A husband with a mistress learns that his wife, whom he had envied, is pregnant and begins to want to kill her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-17
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