Yoshiko Kayama

Yoshiko Kayama

Born: January 1, 1944
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Yoshiko Kayama...

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
Title: Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
Released: August 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
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Wandering Home
Title: Wandering Home
Character: Hiroko Tsukahara
Released: December 4, 2010
Type: Movie
War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
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佐賀のがばいばあちゃん
Title: 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん
Released: April 11, 2009
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of the great hit memoir of Shimada Yoshichi 'Saga no Gabai Bachan' which sold a total of 6.7 million copies for the entire series. He directed and wrote the script for this film. This tear-jerking and side-splitting work depicts the days of a boy and his "gabai (amazing)" grandmother who overcomes poverty with her bright nature and witty words. In 1958, first grader Akihiro (Morita Haruto) is sent to live with his grandmother (Kayama Yoshiko) in Saga Prefecture as his family struggles financially. He is initially bewildered by the unfamiliar countryside life, but grows into an energetic boy with the help of his lively grandmother.
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Kaza-hana
Title: Kaza-hana
Character: Renji's Mother
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all.
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Title: Eenyobo
Character: 朝倉春江
Released: April 5, 1993
Type: TV
A woman works hard to become a good doctor even though she is separated from her husband.
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A Legend of Turmoil
Title: A Legend of Turmoil
Character: Kikue Kasabe
Released: January 15, 1992
Type: Movie
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
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The Boss' Wife
Title: The Boss' Wife
Character: Sumie Yoshimoto
Released: November 19, 1988
Type: Movie
The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.
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Title: Girls In The Wind
Released: April 13, 1988
Type: TV
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Title: Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Released: October 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
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Title: 隠しカメラの人妻
Released: June 22, 1985
Type: TV
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A Scream from Nowhere
Title: A Scream from Nowhere
Character: Shizuko Oyamada
Released: June 18, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.
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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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Flower and Dragon
Title: Flower and Dragon
Released: March 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
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My Voiceless Friends
Title: My Voiceless Friends
Released: April 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
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Title: Kogarashi Monjiro
Character: Ochika
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: TV
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents
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Human Target
Title: Human Target
Character: Sakuko
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
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Profile of a Boss' Son
Title: Profile of a Boss' Son
Released: January 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Title: Tora-san, His Tender Love
Character: Someyakko
Released: January 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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Murder in the Deep
Title: Murder in the Deep
Character: Maya Sato
Released: October 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
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BGs of Ginza
Title: BGs of Ginza
Character: Miwa
Released: May 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
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Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
Title: Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
Character: Aki
Released: March 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band. One day, Nobuko meets Jun, who draws cartoons based on his experiences.
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The Cheating Underworld
Title: The Cheating Underworld
Character: Tomoko
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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My Destiny
Title: My Destiny
Character: Toriko Tsutsumi
Released: June 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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Rainbow Over the Pacific
Title: Rainbow Over the Pacific
Released: April 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed lovers--Hideo (Yukio Hashi), an aspiring photographer from Japan, and Reiko (Jun Mayuzumi), a beautiful Sansei Cherry Blossom contestant from Hawaii--who are drawn together by destiny, yet appear to be fated to be apart. Will the sun set on their young love, or will it be the dawn of a new relationship?
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Hotsprings Holiday
Title: Hotsprings Holiday
Released: February 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Title: The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Released: January 31, 1968
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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Title: Oyaji Daiko
Released: January 16, 1968
Type: TV
The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first generation, but he is a one-man family. His wife, Aiko, is a typical good wife and wise mother type. Kamejiro gets angry and thunders down every week, and the children are afraid of him, calling him "Oyaji Daiko", but he also takes advantage of this.
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Three Faces of Love
Title: Three Faces of Love
Character: Kikuko Shindo
Released: January 14, 1967
Type: Movie
When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.
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The River Yokobori
Title: The River Yokobori
Character: Chiyo
Released: September 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...
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Mr. Greenhorn
Title: Mr. Greenhorn
Released: August 13, 1966
Type: Movie
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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The Sun of Love and Tears
Title: The Sun of Love and Tears
Character: Murasaki Asuka
Released: July 30, 1966
Type: Movie
The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of the same name.
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Title: By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Released: March 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
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Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
Title: Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
Character: Okiku
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
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King of the Highway
Title: King of the Highway
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Title: Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Character: Nakako
Released: November 20, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Soundless Cry
Title: The Soundless Cry
Character: Sachiko Ishimoda
Released: January 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
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Che, Che, Che with Love
Title: Che, Che, Che with Love
Released: January 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A musical romance.
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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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Nippon Paradise
Title: Nippon Paradise
Released: October 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Title: Three Outlaw Samurai
Character: Oyasu
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
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Dislikes
Title: Dislikes
Released: March 1, 1964
Type: Movie
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.
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The Image of Mother
Title: The Image of Mother
Character: Otose
Released: December 24, 1963
Type: Movie
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
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18 Roughs
Title: 18 Roughs
Character: Nobu Ishii
Released: September 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
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Nonsense Boys
Title: Nonsense Boys
Character: Katsuko Ikeda
Released: June 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Shichinin no keiji
Title: Shichinin no keiji
Character: Harue
Released: January 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...
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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Title: Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie