Yōko Kozono
Actor · 1932 – 2025 · Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Movies21
Movie8.1DramaIn 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
Movie7.5DramaThe arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
Movie6.5Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Movie7.2CrimeDramaKoreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Movie6.2CrimeDramaAsako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
Movie8.5ComedyRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
Movie7.1DramaCrimeA juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
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MovieDramaThis period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
Movie7.0DramaA young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.
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Movie6.5DramaA woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Movie6.8ComedyDramaA rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls.
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Movie8.0It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives. When a local hospital, run by a female doctor, plans to expand, the future of the tenement is called into question.
MovieDramaRomanceA youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
MovieDramaThe second installment in the crime reporter series, this is a full-fledged crime reporter film depicting a scoop battle among crime reporters surrounding a mysterious murder and an unlicensed blood sampling service operating in the shadows of Greater Tokyo.
MovieComedySanae Nakahara, playing the role of a proactive female college student, persuades a stubborn old man and mediates the forbidden love of a young businessman. This is a youth comedy made to capitalize on the leisure boom of the time.
ヨットとお転婆野郎
1961
MovieFilm by Buichi Saitô
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MovieComedyHaving left his hometown, Shinichi Sakashita was searching for an agency where his senior colleague worked, hoping to find him a job. However, the agency turned out to be a sister-boy placement service specializing in gay boys. Due to a misunderstanding by his senior colleague, Shinichi was registered as a member and decided to become a sister-boy himself…