Hiroko Itō
Actor · b. 1937 · Eifuku, Tokyo, Japan
Movies10
Movie8.2DramaThrillerA vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Movie7.7WarDramaIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Movie6.6RomanceDramaA 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Movie7.2CrimeDramaAfter his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Movie7.5MysteryDramaA seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.
Movie6.6CrimeDramaHandsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Movie9.0DramaThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
Movie4.8DramaA wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...
Movie5.5ComedyThe plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
MovieFilm directed by Keigo Kimura.