Yōko Yamamoto

Yōko Yamamoto

Born: March 17, 1942
Died: February 20, 2024
in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
 Yōko Yamamoto (山本陽子) is a Japanese actress.

Movies for Yōko Yamamoto...

The Prisoner of Sakura
Title: The Prisoner of Sakura
Character: Grandmother Kikue
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
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Title: Diary
Character: Miyata Makiko
Released: September 9, 2018
Type: TV
Miyata Ayaka (Renbutsu Misako), an office worker, sees her world collapse around her when her mother Miyata Harumi (Kikuchi Momoko) collapses due to illness and is left in a coma because of it. She then discovers that her mother kept a secret diary that she writes with her high school friends and that the lies she has told her have become evident, with nothing to lose. Ayaka will travel to Kaga, in Ishikawa Prefecture, her mother's hometown, to try to clarify the truth of the lie in her mother's secret diary.
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Blade of the Immortal
Title: Blade of the Immortal
Character: Yaobikuni
Released: April 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Title: Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
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Title: The Holy Monsters
Released: January 19, 2012
Type: TV
The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a prestigious university hospital to a financially troubled hospital, but there he meets a capable and cool-headed chief nurse named Kasugai Yuka (Nakatani), who teaches him the reality of the medical world. The pure Kengo must face various obstacles and challenges as he tears off the “masks” of respected professionals – doctors, nurses, and educators – and uncovers their true natures.
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Dendera
Title: Dendera
Character: Hikari Asami
Released: June 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
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Title: 山村美紗サスペンス 小京都 飛騨高山殺人事件
Released: August 28, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: SMAP×SMAP
Character: Bistro Guest
Released: April 15, 1996
Type: TV
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.
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Sure Death 5
Title: Sure Death 5
Character: Goto Chise
Released: December 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against three deadly assassins.
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Title: Kyo, Futari
Character: 母・能田妙子
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: TV
The 45th NHK Asadora. Set in an old Kyoto tsukemono (Japanese preserved vegetables) store, this series depicted the conflicts between a woman, her daughter and her father-in-law. It is a story about the relationships of three generation of women in the Nakahide family.
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Blue Lake Girl
Title: Blue Lake Girl
Character: Ameko Takigawa / Mizue Takigawa
Released: November 4, 1986
Type: Movie
Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Tomoe Osakabe
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Yayoi Hōgen
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Matsumoto Seicho's Black Leather Notebook
Character: Haraguchi Motoko
Released: January 4, 1982
Type: TV
Upon finding out about the existence of a huge slush fund, veteran teller Haraguchi Motoko carefully plans for six months and finally succeeds in embezzling 75 million yen, which she uses to open a club in Ginza.
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Chie the Brat
Title: Chie the Brat
Released: April 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.
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Village of Eight Gravestones
Title: Village of Eight Gravestones
Character: Haruyo Tajimi
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
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Cobra 2
Title: Cobra 2
Character: Miyoko
Released: June 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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Cobra
Title: Cobra
Character: Miyoko
Released: February 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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The Family
Title: The Family
Character: Sanae Manpyo
Released: January 26, 1974
Type: Movie
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Title: Shiroi kage
Released: July 13, 1973
Type: TV
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Title: Nemuri Kyoshiro
Released: October 3, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Taiyō no Namida
Released: December 7, 1971
Type: TV
The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his younger brother in the hospital. Ogawa lies to Shoji that he has a son and asks him to do something extraordinary for him...
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Onna no Iji
Title: Onna no Iji
Character: Hanai Shizue
Released: May 5, 1971
Type: Movie
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?
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Night Butterflies
Title: Night Butterflies
Released: April 24, 1971
Type: Movie
A 1971 crime film
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盛り場流し唄 新宿の女
Title: 盛り場流し唄 新宿の女
Released: May 30, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Cleanup
Title: The Cleanup
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
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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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Lone Rebel
Title: Lone Rebel
Released: September 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.
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100 Gamblers
Title: 100 Gamblers
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
Title: Yabanjin no Nekutai
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Title: Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Released: March 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film
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Whirlwind Of Love
Title: Whirlwind Of Love
Released: March 21, 1969
Type: Movie
A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her friends.
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ドリフターズですよ!特訓特訓また特訓
Title: ドリフターズですよ!特訓特訓また特訓
Released: January 15, 1969
Type: Movie
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Youth Bell
Title: Youth Bell
Released: January 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A masterpiece of youth drama starring the eternal idol Kazuo Funaki.
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Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Title: Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
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The Final Winner?
Title: The Final Winner?
Released: August 28, 1968
Type: Movie
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.
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Duel in the Storm
Title: Duel in the Storm
Character: Koyuki
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.
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Seishun no kaze
Title: Seishun no kaze
Released: March 30, 1968
Type: Movie
A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.
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The Sweet Interns
Title: The Sweet Interns
Released: January 3, 1968
Type: Movie
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
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Return to Kanto Prison
Title: Return to Kanto Prison
Character: Yukie Okai
Released: December 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
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My Sweetheart
Title: My Sweetheart
Character: Yoko Yamamoto
Released: November 3, 1967
Type: Movie
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
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Massacre Gun
Title: Massacre Gun
Character: Aiko
Released: September 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
Title: Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
Character: Itoko Koyanagi
Released: April 22, 1967
Type: Movie
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
Title: Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
Character: Emi
Released: April 8, 1967
Type: Movie
During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...
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Birth of a Fighter
Title: Birth of a Fighter
Character: Oyuki
Released: February 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
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Dreams Come True at Night
Title: Dreams Come True at Night
Character: Yoko katagiri
Released: January 14, 1967
Type: Movie
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
Title: Chivalry Broken from All Sides
Character: Koshi
Released: October 22, 1966
Type: Movie
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yakuza's life, and the passionate fate of his named sister Maki, nicknamed "The Scarlet Cherry Blossom", who falls in love with him without suspecting that he was the one who was responsible for her father's death and to whom she should take revenge.
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Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
Title: Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
Character: Yamanaka
Released: July 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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Cry for Sorrow
Title: Cry for Sorrow
Released: May 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
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Night of Sorrow
Title: Night of Sorrow
Character: Machiko Asanuma
Released: March 27, 1966
Type: Movie
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Title: Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Character: Eriko Hamamura
Released: March 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...
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The Tale of Genji
Title: The Tale of Genji
Character: Little Lady Akashi
Released: January 14, 1966
Type: Movie
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.
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The Passionate Spinster
Title: The Passionate Spinster
Character: Mitsuko Tsurukawa
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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Murder Unincorporated
Title: Murder Unincorporated
Character: Emi / Miyo
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!
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Thanks for the tears
Title: Thanks for the tears
Released: April 29, 1965
Type: Movie
A film starring Teruhiko Saigo and Hideki Takahashi about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.
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Seishun no Sabaki
Title: Seishun no Sabaki
Released: April 14, 1965
Type: Movie
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
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Dai nippon kosodoro den
Title: Dai nippon kosodoro den
Released: December 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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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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The Scarred Crest
Title: The Scarred Crest
Released: August 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
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The Hunter's Diary
Title: The Hunter's Diary
Character: Keiko Obana
Released: April 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
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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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Red Handkerchief
Title: Red Handkerchief
Released: January 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.