Junko Takazawa

Junko Takazawa

Born: January 30, 1955
in Shibata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Junko Takazawa...

Confinement Escape Beautiful Prey
Title: Confinement Escape Beautiful Prey
Released: December 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Saleslady, Akiko takes the wrong mountain path while driving and hits a man.
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The Drive
Title: The Drive
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort the cash. And when things start to go wrong, Rieko responds by murdering another girl and attempting another ransom scam..
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Zodiac Killers
Title: Zodiac Killers
Character: Yuriko
Released: July 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.
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Title: Tales of the Bizarre
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.
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Kaibyō Koi-ga-fuchi
Title: Kaibyō Koi-ga-fuchi
Released: August 13, 1987
Type: Movie
The sisters lived near a pond called Koigafuchi, near Edo, and kept a father-and-son cat named Tama and Kaze. The elder sister, Oichi, was discovered by a samurai named Kazuma who rescued her when she had fallen ill, and she was sent to serve him at his mansion in Edo, but this was the beginning of her misfortune.
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Title: Hikari Sentai Maskman
Character: Dokuro Doggler (human)
Released: February 28, 1987
Type: TV
Commander Sugata discovered the existence of the Royal Underground Empire Tube, a malignant force that desires to dominate the land, which is based underneath Japan. He recruits five young people, each one specializing in a style of martial arts, and teaches them in the ways of the mystical "Aura Power" energy. A year after he recruited and trained the Maskmen, Tube is ready to strike.
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MacArthur's Children—Part II
Title: MacArthur's Children—Part II
Released: January 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as children.
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Title: I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Character: Toshiko Ishii
Released: March 2, 1985
Type: Movie
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."
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Fireflies in the North
Title: Fireflies in the North
Character: Hanayakko
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
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Boys Meet Girls
Title: Boys Meet Girls
Released: March 17, 1984
Type: Movie
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut video release from Pantsu no ana, a subsection of "BOMB" magazine.
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To Trap a Kidnapper
Title: To Trap a Kidnapper
Released: September 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
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Title: Murder Case: Lover Swap
Released: February 20, 1982
Type: TV
Yoshiko Konno went on a winter trip in a car driven by her fiance, Yoichi Itokawa, but got lost due to a blizzard and arrived at a mountain cottage in the depths of a grove. They decide to rent a room. After greeting several men and women sitting by the fireplace, they enter the bedroom. In the middle of the night, Yoshiko woke up and, hearing a woman's voice from the next room, left the room to see what was going on...
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Title: Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Released: April 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
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In the Realm of Death and Pleasure
Title: In the Realm of Death and Pleasure
Released: May 6, 1978
Type: Movie
1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.
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Title: Ningen no Shōmei
Released: January 7, 1978
Type: TV
TV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura.
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Proof of the Man
Title: Proof of the Man
Released: October 8, 1977
Type: Movie
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
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Death at an Old Mansion
Title: Death at an Old Mansion
Character: Suzuko Ichiyanagi
Released: September 27, 1975
Type: Movie
When a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the inner lives of the two.
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Machi no Hi
Title: Machi no Hi
Character: Keiko
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other.
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Title: Wagako wa Tanin
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: TV
The drama is about the suffering of two families whose babies were mistaken for each other in the hospital.