Haruko Wanibuchi

Haruko Wanibuchi

Born: April 22, 1945
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Haruko Wanibuchi...

Title: Neo Ultra Q
Character: Epignoid lover
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: TV
Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Cat Lady
Released: January 21, 2006
Type: Movie
One day, an angel materializes before Kato's eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a pair of big white wings. Only lonely-hearted people can see her. She may seem ordinary, but this angel touches hearts and transforms lives.
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One Missed Call 2
Title: One Missed Call 2
Character: Sachie Mizunuma
Released: February 5, 2005
Type: Movie
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true
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Heaven's Bookstore
Title: Heaven's Bookstore
Character: Heaven Coffee Shop Owner
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
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Karaoke Terror
Title: Karaoke Terror
Released: November 8, 2003
Type: Movie
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
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Eau de Vie
Title: Eau de Vie
Character: あやこ
Released: February 15, 2003
Type: Movie
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Human Trash
Title: Human Trash
Released: March 31, 2001
Type: Movie
A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.
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Immoral Affairs
Title: Immoral Affairs
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played by Kaho Minami, a young women who is not content with her husband and begins to have many affairs with other men, and Kiriko Okabe, played by Isako Washio, a woman whom she befriends. Mayako's husband is played by Jinpachi Nezu.
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Zakuro Yakata
Title: Zakuro Yakata
Released: August 23, 1997
Type: Movie
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House of Sleeping Beauties
Title: House of Sleeping Beauties
Character: Matsuko
Released: October 14, 1995
Type: Movie
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
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The Breath
Title: The Breath
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project to clean up a river, he loses what's left of his will to live and lets the water carry him away. He ends up rescuing a drowning man who alters his view of life totally. Soon he gets a job investigating the mysterious disappearance of a student who sent her mother a cryptic letter, "Wait a bit, Mother. I'm sending my breath. It will arrive soon."
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Title: The Stairway to the Distant Past
Character: Lily Hama
Released: March 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Title: Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Character: Akiko Natsume
Released: January 28, 1995
Type: Movie
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
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N45゜
Title: N45゜
Character: Umbrella woman
Released: October 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Title: The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Character: Lily Hama
Released: March 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers
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Gekashitsu
Title: Gekashitsu
Released: February 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.
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Asian Beat: Powder Road
Title: Asian Beat: Powder Road
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: Movie
The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. The other is smuggling heroin with Thai partners from Burma. It is transported to Pattaya by placing it inside blocks of ice. Once there it is removed and surgically implanted into the “boobs” of transvestites for onward transportation by air to Japan. Unfortunately for them the Thai police know all about their operations…
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Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
Title: Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian countries, including Japan, compete to create the same protagonist (Masatoshi Nagase). The main character "TOKIO" becomes involved in various incidents when he meets Banana, a Filipino girl who is a terrorist and holds top-secret information that will shake Japan. This work depicts the appearance of TOKIO and his escape from Japan.
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Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
Title: Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
Released: October 20, 1990
Type: Movie
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The Legend of Zipang
Title: The Legend of Zipang
Character: Queen of Zipang
Released: January 27, 1990
Type: Movie
Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace shot with her pearl-laden pistol. Before she can set her sights on Jigoku-gokuraku-maru, he is attacked by a hoard of sword-wielding thugs also hoping to collect the reward. He dispatches them with bloody aplomb. Later, Jigoku-gokuraku- maru and Teppo Oyuri -- who has fallen for the master swordsman in spite of herself -- ventures to Zipingu -- the Land of Gold -- in search of a magical gold sword.
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Circus Boys
Title: Circus Boys
Character: Kimie
Released: November 23, 1989
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
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South to the Horizon
Title: South to the Horizon
Character: Harue Tamagi
Released: August 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.
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Scent of a Spell
Title: Scent of a Spell
Character: Asako Yano
Released: December 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Yae Mikoshiba
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Devil's Flute
Title: Devil's Flute
Character: Akiko Tsubaki
Released: January 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
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The Story of a Geisha
Title: The Story of a Geisha
Released: August 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
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House
Title: House
Character: Ryôko Ema
Released: August 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
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Title: Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Jail Breakers
Title: Jail Breakers
Character: Yoko Kuze
Released: June 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch of thugs that engineer prison escapes for money.
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Hobo General
Title: Hobo General
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
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Rebellion Reward
Title: Rebellion Reward
Character: Akiko Uemura
Released: February 17, 1973
Type: Movie
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). Watari meets a former gangster (Yujiro Ishihara) who is seeking revenge against Narita, his former partner. Watari and Ishihara become allies and hijack the dope shipment. But Narita threatens the life of Haruko, who turns out to be Ishihara's sister, and demands the dope in return for the girl.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Character: Chisa
Released: July 15, 1967
Type: Movie
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.
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Flower Cards Chivalry
Title: Flower Cards Chivalry
Character: Umeko Ito
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
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Twilight of Tokyo
Title: Twilight of Tokyo
Character: Ryoko Kashii
Released: April 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.
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Samurai from Somewhere
Title: Samurai from Somewhere
Released: December 7, 1964
Type: Movie
Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust. Never offering any explanation, he continues his seemingly unprovoked attacks until he is sent away from his domain.
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Kono sora no aru kagiri
Title: Kono sora no aru kagiri
Released: November 14, 1964
Type: Movie
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Our Happiness Alone
Title: Our Happiness Alone
Character: Kyoko Iwama
Released: March 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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For Love and Money
Title: For Love and Money
Released: December 24, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Night We Danced
Title: The Night We Danced
Released: December 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
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Tange Sazen
Title: Tange Sazen
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu Clan tries to raise funds by obtaining a sword which holds the key to a wondrous, hidden treasure. After learning the sword's secret, Tange Sazen sides with the Yagyu Clan, but his motive seems to be more than just pure interest in the treasure...
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Rush to Our Sweetheart
Title: Rush to Our Sweetheart
Released: February 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Title: Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Released: December 30, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Naite waratta hanayome
Title: Naite waratta hanayome
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
Title: Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Hadashi no hanayome
Title: Hadashi no hanayome
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Haruko no ōen danchō
Title: Haruko no ōen danchō
Released: August 5, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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San'nin musume kanpai!
Title: San'nin musume kanpai!
Released: July 18, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
Title: Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
Released: April 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
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湖愁
Title: 湖愁
Released: March 11, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Haru no sanmyaku
Title: Haru no sanmyaku
Released: February 17, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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A Roaring Trade
Title: A Roaring Trade
Released: January 3, 1962
Type: Movie
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Hunting Rifle
Title: Hunting Rifle
Character: Shoko Tagi
Released: January 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
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Adventures of Princess Anmitsu
Title: Adventures of Princess Anmitsu
Released: December 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Izu Dancer
Title: The Izu Dancer
Character: Kaoru
Released: May 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
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Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Title: Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Character: Harue Aoki
Released: April 29, 1960
Type: Movie
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Love in the Mountains
Title: Love in the Mountains
Released: October 23, 1959
Type: Movie
A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
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Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Title: Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Character: Non-chan
Released: June 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandparents and a few other people she loved who have passed on.
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母子鶴
Title: 母子鶴
Character: Eiko as a child
Released: July 3, 1952
Type: Movie