Yoshiko Maki

Yoshiko Maki

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Lesson
Title: Lesson
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The days of love between a free-spirited heroine who continues to seek freedom and a young man who is attracted to her charm. Starring Kumiko Akiyoshi.
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Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Title: Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Released: November 20, 1993
Type: Movie
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Rhapsody in August
Title: Rhapsody in August
Released: May 25, 1991
Type: Movie
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
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The Empty Table
Title: The Empty Table
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Although the parents of all the other perpetrators have either resigned from their professional positions or taken their own lives, Nobuyuki Kidoji tries to remain adamant that he was not responsible for his son's actions.
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The First Catch
Title: The First Catch
Released: December 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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Gassan
Title: Gassan
Character: Fumiko's grand mother
Released: October 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.
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Vengeance Is Mine
Title: Vengeance Is Mine
Character: Farmer
Released: April 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Title: New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Released: November 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Title: Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Released: November 13, 1976
Type: Movie
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of ​​Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could be called fate, forced the farmers into even more poverty and despair. Meanwhile, farmers in Nabe Village continue to live a lethargic life, but agricultural reform is about to begin under the hands of Yugaku Ohara, a ronin who has settled in the village.
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Dodes'ka-den
Title: Dodes'ka-den
Character: 2nd Wife
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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A Trap
Title: A Trap
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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Raised in a Palace
Title: Raised in a Palace
Character: Otatsu
Released: September 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).
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The Forest Is Alive
Title: The Forest Is Alive
Released: October 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"