Movies: Yōko Minamida

Life and love stories of stunt men and women....

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino...

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It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spend...

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako...

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The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says that he is the younger brother of Colt Jo's killer. When Ryuji escaped difficulties with one blow knoc...

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past....

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 invi...

Japanese drama film....

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers....

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...

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality....

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)....

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Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel....

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama....

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura....