Yōko Yamamoto
Also Known As: Yoko Yamamoto, Yohko Yamamoto, Youko Yamamoto
Biography: Yōko Yamamoto (山本陽子) is a Japanese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 17, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 20, 2024
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
Overview: An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-22
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The Cleanup
Overview: A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Return to Kanto Prison
Overview: Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-09
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
Overview: This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yakuza's life, and the passionate fate of his named sister Maki, nicknamed "The Scarlet Cherry Blossom", who falls in love with him without suspecting that he was the one who was responsible for her father's death and to whom she should take revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-22
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Seishun no kaze
Overview: A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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Whirlwind Of Love
Overview: A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her friends.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Overview: Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Only on Mondays
Overview: Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
Overview: The story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became a hostess burdened with a large compensation payment after her father was imprisoned for causing a traffic accident while driving under the influence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-30
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Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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The Scarred Crest
Overview: A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-01
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Overview: Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Overview: Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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Youth Bell
Overview: A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A masterpiece of youth drama starring the eternal idol Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-11
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Night of Sorrow
Overview: A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-27
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100 Gamblers
Overview: Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
Overview: Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Chie the Brat
Overview: Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-11
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A 1971 crime film
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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Duel in the Storm
Overview: It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Seishun no Sabaki
Overview: University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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Thanks for the Tears
Overview: A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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The Family
Overview: Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-26
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Profit from Killing
Overview: The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abashiri prison, and he is noticed when he saves a student from gangsters from the Hanamura gang. But this was only the beginning of a bloody struggle...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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ドリフターズですよ！特訓特訓また特訓
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
Overview: During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-08
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Cobra 2
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-26
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Dendera
Overview: Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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Murder Unincorporated
Overview: When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Cobra
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Dai nippon kosodoro den
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-06
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The Tale of Genji
Overview: An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-14
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Cry for Sorrow
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-18
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Blue Lake Girl
Overview: Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
Genres: Romance Horror Fantasy Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-04
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Massacre Gun
Overview: Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-06
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The Final Winner?
Overview: In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-28
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Sure Death 5
Overview: Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against three deadly assassins.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-23
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Village of Eight Gravestones
Overview: The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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The Hunter's Diary
Overview: Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-19
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Red Handkerchief
Overview: A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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My Sweetheart
Overview: It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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Blade of the Immortal
Overview: Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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The Prisoner of Sakura
Overview: With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Birth of a Fighter
Overview: A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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The Sweet Interns
Overview: The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-03
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Dreams Come True at Night
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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The Passionate Spinster
Overview: She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-23
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Lone Rebel
Overview: Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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Onna no Iji
Overview: 2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Tokyo Olympics
Overview: Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964 . Song was composed by Masao Koga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-09
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
Overview: A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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Rusty Pendant
Overview: 1967 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-14
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Boku dōshite namida ga deru no
Overview: 1965 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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Tokyo wa Koisuru
Overview: Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away... Akira Saiga of "Dainippon Chambera Den" wrote the story, and Nozomu Yanase of "Northern Town" directed this youth work. Film by Muneo Ueda of "Early Youth Blue Fruit".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
Overview: A man who has left the yakuza world is drawn back into the fray for his younger brother in this gunfighting action film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Hanayome wa jū go-sai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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