Yūko Kusunoki

Yūko Kusunoki

Born: January 1, 1933
in Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Yuko Kusunoki (楠侑子 Kusunoki Yūko, born 1933) is a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1959.

Movies for Yūko Kusunoki...

The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
Title: The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
Title: Case of the Disjointed Murder
Character: Akiko Utsugi
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
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A Woman Called En
Title: A Woman Called En
Released: May 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is released at the age of 44, the power struggles of her clan continue to disturb her life and the man whom she loves.
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Dodes'ka-den
Title: Dodes'ka-den
Character: Misao Sawagami
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
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The Rokumeikan
Title: The Rokumeikan
Released: April 25, 1970
Type: Movie
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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Eros + Massacre
Title: Eros + Massacre
Character: Itsuko Masaoka
Released: March 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Title: Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Released: January 22, 1969
Type: Movie
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Title: Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Character: Noriko Tokayasu
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
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Samurai Wolf II
Title: Samurai Wolf II
Character: Oren
Released: May 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.
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Thirst for Love
Title: Thirst for Love
Released: February 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Hatsuse​
Released: March 13, 1966
Type: Movie
1966 film directed by Kudo.
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Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
Title: Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
Character: Yayoi
Released: February 12, 1966
Type: Movie
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.
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Carmen from Kawachi
Title: Carmen from Kawachi
Character: Yoko Kashima
Released: February 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
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The Betrayers Out!
Title: The Betrayers Out!
Released: January 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
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The Ghost of the Hunchback
Title: The Ghost of the Hunchback
Character: Yoshie Munakata
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Released: February 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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The Flower and the Sword
Title: The Flower and the Sword
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
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Whirlpool of Flesh
Title: Whirlpool of Flesh
Character: Kimiko
Released: October 21, 1964
Type: Movie
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
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The Call of Flesh
Title: The Call of Flesh
Released: September 19, 1964
Type: Movie
A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.
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Intentions of Murder
Title: Intentions of Murder
Character: Yoshiko Masuda
Released: June 28, 1964
Type: Movie
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
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League of Gangsters
Title: League of Gangsters
Character: Masae
Released: July 31, 1963
Type: Movie
A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
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江戸忍法帖 七つの影
Title: 江戸忍法帖 七つの影
Released: May 19, 1963
Type: Movie
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Title: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Character: Misa
Released: January 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
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Bōkyō no umi
Title: Bōkyō no umi
Released: October 21, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Jūdan no arashi
Title: Jūdan no arashi
Released: September 2, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Quick Draw Sanshiro
Title: Quick Draw Sanshiro
Released: June 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!
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Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
Title: Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
Released: May 13, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Seinen no isu
Title: Seinen no isu
Released: April 8, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Marin
Released: March 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
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I'll End in Hell
Title: I'll End in Hell
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Joji has to use his skills as a fast and accurate shooter!
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Whistling in the Darkness
Title: Whistling in the Darkness
Released: May 28, 1961
Type: Movie
A 1961 crime film.
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Rambling in the Sea
Title: Rambling in the Sea
Released: April 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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無情の夢
Title: 無情の夢
Released: March 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.
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Covered Wagon
Title: Covered Wagon
Released: October 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's major islands, to Hokkaido, it's northernmost.
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Title: The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Released: September 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
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The Rambler in the Sunset
Title: The Rambler in the Sunset
Released: July 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".
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Return of the Vagabond
Title: Return of the Vagabond
Released: April 23, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sleeping Beast Within
Title: The Sleeping Beast Within
Character: Hiroko Komatsu
Released: April 9, 1960
Type: Movie
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
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He's the Witness
Title: He's the Witness
Released: March 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.
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The Girls and the Students
Title: The Girls and the Students
Character: Reiko
Released: February 21, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Seasons of Love
Title: The Seasons of Love
Character: Ginko
Released: June 10, 1958
Type: Movie
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
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Tower of Lilies
Title: Tower of Lilies
Released: January 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.