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Yôko Minamida

Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimers in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her. She died in Tokyo. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Yōko Minamida. Born : 1st-Mar-1933

Movie Credits

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Released : 21st-Jan-1961

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A Modern Samurai Village

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.
Released : 24th-Feb-1963

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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
Released : 9th-Aug-1969

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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 14th-Jan-1962

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The Crucified Lovers

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1954

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Zoku jūdai no seiten

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
Released : 15th-May-1953

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Black Dice

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 25th-Mar-1962

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Okashina yatsu


Released : 1st-Nov-1963

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Salaryman Senka

Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1995

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A Young Man's Stronghold

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
Released : 4th-Apr-1970

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Princess Yang Kwei Fei

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
Released : 3rd-May-1955

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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Released : 14th-Jul-1957

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Ankoku gai jingi

A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organization and emerging powers. A huge gangster story depicting a three-way turf war on a large scale.
Released : 13th-Jun-1965

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Umi no jōji ni kakero

1960 action film.
Released : 17th-Sep-1960

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Sun and stars

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
Released : 1st-Jul-1962

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He Killed Dad

The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.
Released : 9th-Jan-1961

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Streetlights

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
Released : 13th-Feb-1957

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Moeru minamijūjisei

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Jul-1962

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The Soundless Cry

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.
Released : 30th-Jan-1965

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Yellow Fangs

Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.
Released : 10th-Feb-1990

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The Wild Daisy

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.
Released : 9th-Jul-1977

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Season of the Sun

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.
Released : 17th-May-1956

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The Crimson Plains

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over the ranch, which is run by his wife alone, but then the rancher's best friend, Joji, appears and saves the day. This is one of a series of Japanese westerns starring Jo Shishido.
Released : 30th-Jul-1961

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ゆがんだ月


Released : 28th-Jul-1959

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Sara no hana no toge


Released : 11th-Oct-1955

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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
Released : 25th-Aug-1965

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Jûdai no seiten

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
Released : 5th-Feb-1953

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Return of the Vagabond

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
Released : 23rd-Apr-1960

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The Guys Who Put Money on Me

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
Released : 9th-Dec-1962

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The Rambler Rides Again

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.
Released : 12th-Oct-1960

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Voice Without a Shadow

Asako, 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.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1958

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Love Comes with Youth

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the “odoriko”. Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited to stay at the same lodgings, the two grow closer. In time, the two come to learn the pain of love.
Released : 1st-Jun-1963

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Chivalrous Pride


Released : 13th-Sep-1969

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Wind and waves of the South

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
Released : 19th-Nov-1961

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I Have the Sun in My Back

Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become cool, but he was exposed as the culprit of the boss's murder, and he was killed. To clear the name of his brother Kenzo, Shigeru, with the support of his girlfriend Asako, sets out to find out the truth. A combination yakuza-youth action with heavy romantic overtones.
Released : 7th-Apr-1963

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The Happy Dancers

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
Released : 10th-May-1956

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Our Town

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...
Released : 28th-Aug-1956

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An Outlaw

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
Released : 5th-Apr-1964

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The Motherless

Japanese drama film.
Released : 4th-Dec-1955

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Tonari no yome

Japanese drama film.
Released : 18th-Sep-1956

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Time of First Love

3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Released : 1st-Aug-1975

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Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1963

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Glorious Fights

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Released : 29th-Oct-1966

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The Barefoot Girl

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.
Released : 8th-Sep-1957

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The Poem of the Blue Star

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a whim!
Released : 31st-Jan-1960

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This Story of Love

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.
Released : 12th-Sep-1987

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Glass-Hearted Johnny

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
Released : 30th-Sep-1962

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Jakoman and Tetsu

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
Released : 8th-Feb-1964

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Tokyo Knights

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
Released : 1st-Feb-1961

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The Domain

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.
Released : 13th-Aug-1964

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Ame no meguri ai

Japanese drama film.
Released : 21st-May-1977

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TV Credits

青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙

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Released : 10th-Apr-1989

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よーいドン

栄市の母・せい - A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just made this up.
Released : 4th-Oct-1982

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虹

三谷かな子 - Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are missing from the NHK archives, though a brief clip does survive as part of a contemporary news segment documenting the drama's production.
Released : 6th-Apr-1970

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失楽園

Eto Kuniko - Kuki Shoichiro is relieved of his position as general manager of Gendai Shobo and transferred to the research office. One day, three months after his sudden relocation, on the night of a lecture at the Culture Center at Kinugawa's request, Hisaki meets Rinko Matsubara through his introduction. The story begins a few months later, in September, in a hotel room in Kamakura.
Released : 7th-Jul-1997

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赤い衝撃

- A track and field athlete falls in love with a cop, but...
Released : 5th-Nov-1976

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砂山の唄殺人事件

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Released : 21st-Dec-1990

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