Ruriko Itô
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: June 08, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Female
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Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
Overview: In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-16
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Three Seconds to Zero Hour
Overview: “I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone renegade from the shadowy espionage bureau that honed his killer instincts to a razor’s edge, the implacable Yabuki teams up with fellow mercenary crime fighter Yamawaki. Together, they follow a trail of stolen gems leading from the final days of WWII to a contemporary conspiracy that reaches into the highest corridors of corporate power and nefarious international villainy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-21
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Records of Bloodshed
Overview: Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of Kurahata, a member of the Yakuza who doesn't like him.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-10
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Carmen from Kawachi
Overview: Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-07
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Blood and Sea
Overview: The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her advanced age, is still the best diver in the village, Nami has grown up to be an excellent diver too. However, her older sister Saki was born with a mental disorder and no one in the village wants to do business with her. Nami, on the other hand, is very popular among the boys of the village, she is healthy and beautiful. The fisherman Shosaku is crazy about Nami, and day and night he asks her on dates. However, Nami has a crush on her cousin Yuji, who works for the fishermen's union, and casually rejects Shosaku's advances.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Flowering Maidens
Overview: The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-24
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Your Life
Overview: A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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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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Aruhi watashi wa
Overview: The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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若い川の流れ
Overview: The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director and his wife, Misako recommends her colleague Tensuke Sone to Fusako, the managing director's daughter and best friend. Fusako and Sone meet at the executive director's Karuizawa villa, but for some reason Kensuke becomes angry when he learns that Misako is the one who recommended him...
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-14
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Gambling is My Destiny
Overview: Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set amidst rugged rocky terrain and raging waves!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-04
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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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Sign of the Jack
Overview: Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner Kurahara. They attempt to help the Towada-Gumi gang against its rival group the Kamioka-Gumi which is seeking the chance to conquer the Towada-Gumi in collusion with Noda, a big shot in the town operating a real estate firm.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Overview: In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked out the infirmary's doctor and taken his place. A trio of students notice the trick and dress up as medical professionals to assist the female portion of the school body. A newspaper has caught wind of this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-01
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The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Overview: The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll!
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-28
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A Warm Misty Night
Overview: When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-11
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Ginza for Two
Overview: The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the composer about adversity into a real hit. The film adaptation of the hit of the same name by the duo Izumi and Yamauchi, inspired by the single by the American band "The Ventures".
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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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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