Yasukiyo Umeno

Yasukiyo Umeno

Born: July 14, 1933
Died: August 25, 2020
in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Yasukiyo Umeno...

The Magic Hour
Title: The Magic Hour
Character: Mamoru
Released: June 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
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Star Reformer
Title: Star Reformer
Released: February 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big prefecture project. This project is very big, so success of this personnel exchange training will probably determine his career. Nomura goes to a supermarket called "Mantendo".
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Title: Konya Uchu no Katasumi de
Released: July 9, 1998
Type: TV
This love comedy is set in New York, where a Japanese beautician (Naoko Iijima) is courted by two men (Masahiko Nishimura and Takaaki Ishibashi).
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Title: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Character: Furukawa
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: Movie
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking.
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The Eyes of Asia
Title: The Eyes of Asia
Character: Miguel
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forced again to prove his faith, only this time before a Shogun, who wanted to force him to abandon his religion. Julian resists, as does Miguel Chijiwa, a fellow at the embassy to Rome, who become a martyr. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who cannot bear the torture, Julian suffers an inglorious death ... or maybe not. All the while, a woman wants to discover her past...
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Curtain Call
Title: Curtain Call
Released: July 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Title: Tora-san Goes Religious?
Released: December 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: Chief Detective Asano
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
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Station
Title: Station
Character: Uncle
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
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Willful Murder
Title: Willful Murder
Character: Prosecutor Yamaoka
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
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Call from Darkness
Title: Call from Darkness
Released: September 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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Writhing Tongue
Title: Writhing Tongue
Character: Akira's Older Brother
Released: November 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.
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An Ocean to Cross
Title: An Ocean to Cross
Character: Kibi no Makibi
Released: January 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Title: Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
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The Demon
Title: The Demon
Released: October 7, 1978
Type: Movie
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
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Love and Faith
Title: Love and Faith
Released: June 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
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Sandakan No. 8
Title: Sandakan No. 8
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
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Title: Blitz!! Strada 5
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: TV
Battle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police formed against these organizations. An action drama incorporating element of children's hero program, Tokusatsu, such as characters with superhuman motor nerves and the appearance of super machines. "Strada 5" is the name of this secret team.
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Title: Professional Killers
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: TV
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
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Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Title: Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Released: June 12, 1972
Type: Movie
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Tora-san's Love Call
Title: Tora-san's Love Call
Character: Tsuyoshi
Released: December 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Jiiya
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Where Spring Comes Late
Title: Where Spring Comes Late
Released: October 24, 1970
Type: Movie
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
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Melody of Rebellion
Title: Melody of Rebellion
Character: Tachibana
Released: July 22, 1970
Type: Movie
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
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Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger
Title: Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger
Released: February 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.
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Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Title: Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film
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The Passionate Spinster
Title: The Passionate Spinster
Character: Isao Hayakawa
Released: November 23, 1965
Type: Movie
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
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Chivalrous Life
Title: Chivalrous Life
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: Movie
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federation, to which he belonged. The creditor, Izo, visited the local police station daily, worried about the safety of his boss, and himself came to the attention of the police. Izo embarks on a journey to escape, but in the meantime, the new rising yakuza Dojima plans to kill Iizuka...
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Profit from Killing
Title: Profit from Killing
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Satoshi Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abashiri prison, and he is noticed when he saves a student from gangsters from the Hanamura gang. But this was only the beginning of a bloody struggle...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Title: Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Released: March 25, 1964
Type: Movie
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.
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Only on Mondays
Title: Only on Mondays
Released: March 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
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The Beautiful Teenager
Title: The Beautiful Teenager
Character: Kitamura
Released: February 8, 1964
Type: Movie
A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.
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Cruel Gun Story
Title: Cruel Gun Story
Released: February 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
Title: Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
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Modern Children
Title: Modern Children
Released: February 2, 1963
Type: Movie
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
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Moeru minamijūjisei
Title: Moeru minamijūjisei
Released: July 29, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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何もかも狂ってやがる
Title: 何もかも狂ってやがる
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Keep Your Chin Up
Title: Keep Your Chin Up
Character: Jessie Maki
Released: March 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.
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Angel and the Outlaw
Title: Angel and the Outlaw
Released: February 11, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Ningen Gari
Title: Ningen Gari
Released: January 23, 1962
Type: Movie
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
Title: Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
Released: June 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there.
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Jungle Block
Title: Jungle Block
Character: Goro Kajiwara
Released: June 15, 1960
Type: Movie
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
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Teenage Wolf
Title: Teenage Wolf
Released: March 2, 1960
Type: Movie
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which distorted energy explodes! A unique social drama that acutely depicts the psychological conflict bubbling in the chest of detectives who are chasing a gang of scoundrels who prey on innocent girls. Adapted from the novel "Kegareta Hankachi".
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The Cards Will Tell
Title: The Cards Will Tell
Released: January 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A 1960 crime film
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The Age of Our Own
Title: The Age of Our Own
Released: November 25, 1959
Type: Movie
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a young girl who is studying French songs. Yasuo then learns that he is the winner of an essay contest and will be offered a scholarship to study in France. Akiko, is now pregnant and Yasuo promises to break with Yuriko.
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ゆがんだ月
Title: ゆがんだ月
Character: Jumpei Tateishi
Released: July 28, 1959
Type: Movie
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Break Down that Wall
Title: Break Down that Wall
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Passport to Darkness
Title: Passport to Darkness
Released: May 19, 1959
Type: Movie
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.
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Kemono no iru gai
Title: Kemono no iru gai
Released: December 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.
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The Perfect Game
Title: The Perfect Game
Character: Toda
Released: November 11, 1958
Type: Movie
College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.
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Face in the Dark
Title: Face in the Dark
Character: Matsuzo
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Japanese suspense film.
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Title: A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Character: Tokusaburo
Released: July 14, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Who's The Real Killer
Title: Who's The Real Killer
Released: July 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.