Yoshiko Kayama
Also Known As: Ёсико Каяма
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Female
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Mr. Greenhorn
Overview: 1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Wandering Home
Overview: War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-04
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The Soundless Cry
Overview: Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-30
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The Sun of Love and Tears
Overview: The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of the same name.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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The River Yokobori
Overview: Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-15
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Overview: Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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佐賀のがばいばあちゃん
Overview: A film adaptation of the great hit memoir of Shimada Yoshichi 'Saga no Gabai Bachan' which sold a total of 6.7 million copies for the entire series. He directed and wrote the script for this film. This tear-jerking and side-splitting work depicts the days of a boy and his "gabai (amazing)" grandmother who overcomes poverty with her bright nature and witty words. In 1958, first grader Akihiro (Morita Haruto) is sent to live with his grandmother (Kayama Yoshiko) in Saga Prefecture as his family struggles financially. He is initially bewildered by the unfamiliar countryside life, but grows into an energetic boy with the help of his lively grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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A Scream from Nowhere
Overview: In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-18
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Hotsprings Holiday
Overview: Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-14
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Profile of a Boss' Son
Overview: Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-24
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18 Roughs
Overview: Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Overview: About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
Overview: After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Overview: Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-23
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Dislikes
Overview: An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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A Legend of Turmoil
Overview: A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-15
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Murder in the Deep
Overview: Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Nonsense Boys
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Nippon Paradise
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Human Target
Overview: At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Kaza-hana
Overview: A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-27
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Three Faces of Love
Overview: When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Flower and Dragon
Overview: Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-17
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Rainbow Over the Pacific
Overview: Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed lovers--Hideo (Yukio Hashi), an aspiring photographer from Japan, and Reiko (Jun Mayuzumi), a beautiful Sansei Cherry Blossom contestant from Hawaii--who are drawn together by destiny, yet appear to be fated to be apart. Will the sun set on their young love, or will it be the dawn of a new relationship?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-27
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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
Overview: Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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BGs of Ginza
Overview: Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-17
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The Image of Mother
Overview: A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-24
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The Cheating Underworld
Overview: Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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King of the Highway
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Che, Che, Che with Love
Overview: A musical romance.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-20
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The Boss' Wife
Overview: The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-19
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Samurai from Somewhere
Overview: Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust. Never offering any explanation, he continues his seemingly unprovoked attacks until he is sent away from his domain.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Overview: Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Shichinin no keiji
Overview: Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-27
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My Destiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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My Voiceless Friends
Overview: A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-29
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Overview: A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could be called fate, forced the farmers into even more poverty and despair. Meanwhile, farmers in Nabe Village continue to live a lethargic life, but agricultural reform is about to begin under the hands of Yugaku Ohara, a ronin who has settled in the village.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-13
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Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
Overview: Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band. One day, Nobuko meets Jun, who draws cartoons based on his experiences.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Overview: A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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七人の刑事 女を探がせ
Overview: This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-14
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Kuniko Mukoda's Carp
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1987.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-20
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Big, Big Fellow
Overview: The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro Minamida (Atsumi) plays an uneducated and uncouth local troublemaker who becomes the talk of the town following an unexpected incident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-26
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25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
Overview: Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-12
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Journey of Love
Overview: Sayuri Yoshinaga played the first appearance of the Shochiku film. Yufuko who was married from a lover who had been married for a year. However, she believes in true love without feeling the heart of her heart, she decides to visit her sister and go to Australia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Dokuritsu bijin-tai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Inochi hateru hi made
Overview: 1966 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Overview: Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationalist factions, he founds Keio University, becoming a key figure in Japan's modernization amid political turmoil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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