Kayoko Shiraishi

Kayoko Shiraishi

Born: December 9, 1941
in Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Kayoko Shiraishi...

Title: House of Ninjas
Character: Mochizuki
Released: February 15, 2024
Type: TV
Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions to counteract a string of looming threats.
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Title: Sayonara, Maestro!
Character: Tomiko
Released: January 14, 2024
Type: TV
Ever since gifted conductor Natsume’s wife and daughter left him five years ago, he has isolated himself from the music scene. Then one day, he decides to return to Japan for the first time in decades to conduct a small town orchestra and return to his estranged daughter, Hibiki, who loathes him and his music. Now he must try to thaw a relationship with his daughter frozen in time for five years, and learn to be a father.
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Rohan at the Louvre
Title: Rohan at the Louvre
Character: Rohan's Grandmother
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
The blackest and most evil painting in the world. In pursuit of its mystery, Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist with a special power, visits the Louvre in France. There, a number of horrifying events await him.
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Kumo to Saru no Kazoku
Title: Kumo to Saru no Kazoku
Released: March 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Character: Kiyo Nozuki's Grandmother
Released: January 12, 2023
Type: TV
Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof.
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Thousand and One Nights
Title: Thousand and One Nights
Character: Chiyo Fujikura
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.
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Title: ムサシ
Released: July 28, 2021
Type: TV
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Labyrinth of Cinema
Title: Labyrinth of Cinema
Character: Old Woman at Ticket Office
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: Movie
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.
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Title: Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
Character: 三岛和歌子
Released: January 6, 2019
Type: TV
Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story of marathon runner Kanakuri Shiso, who became one of the first Japanese nationals to participate in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. The second half features Tabata Masaji, the coach who laid the foundations of Japanese swimming and helped bring the games to Tokyo for the first time in 1964.
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Hanagatami
Title: Hanagatami
Character: Professor Yamauchi's Mother
Released: December 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.
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かげろう絵図
Title: かげろう絵図
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
After the sudden death of her adoptive father Shimada Mataemon, Nui, whose own father met an untimely death when he was about to expose the corruption of the shogunate becomes determined to expose the collusion between Kannouji, and the unforgivable relationships between the ladies in waiting of the inner palace and the monks. Nui is undertaking this undercover investigation without regard for the danger she is putting herself in, for the sake of Shinnosuke whom she secretly loves
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Title: The Gutsy Frog
Character: Kyoko's grandma
Released: July 11, 2015
Type: TV
Live-action version of the popular 70's japanese manga and anime, "Dokonjô Gaeru". In this version, Hiroshi, Kyôko, and the rest of the classmates are 30 years old. The setting is modern day Japan, and of course, Hiroshi still wears Pyonkichi (aka Raponchi) on his shirt.
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Title: Carry On! Hara-chan!
Character: Hideko
Released: January 19, 2013
Type: TV
Echizen, who is a modest woman, works at a fish cake plant. Instead of keeping a diary, she draws cartoons of "Nakuna, Harachan" on her notebook about her daily life. The main character in her comic, Hara then appears in the real world.
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Yamato
Title: Yamato
Released: December 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."
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Umineko - Inseparable
Title: Umineko - Inseparable
Character: Misako Akagi
Released: November 13, 2004
Type: Movie
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospital in her hometown of Hakodate, she learns of the tragic life of her deceased mother, Kaoru, from her grandmother.
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Dark Tales of Japan
Title: Dark Tales of Japan
Character: Old Lady (segment "Would You Like to Hear a Scary Tale")
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Title: The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Character: Yone
Released: November 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
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In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Title: In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Character: Midori Ozaki
Released: July 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of the Seventh Sense," her unknown years spent in poor health and poverty, and the present-day world from which we see her work.
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Shintokumaru
Title: Shintokumaru
Released: October 15, 1997
Type: Movie
The film depicts the fatal, forbidden love between Nadeko, who is bought by a shop selling her mother, and her son-in-law, Jisumaru.
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Shizuka na ayashii gogo ni
Title: Shizuka na ayashii gogo ni
Released: January 25, 1997
Type: Movie
Anthology consisting of three films.
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The 8-Tomb Village
Title: The 8-Tomb Village
Character: Koicha no ama
Released: October 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
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Title: Ogre Slayer
Character: ナレーション
Released: September 9, 1994
Type: TV
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Station to Heaven
Title: Station to Heaven
Character: Tatsue
Released: June 9, 1984
Type: Movie
From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo (Sayuri Yoshinaga) after her abusive husband is murdered.
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The Makioka Sisters
Title: The Makioka Sisters
Character: Restaurant Owner
Released: May 21, 1983
Type: Movie
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
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Harmagedon
Title: Harmagedon
Character: The Astrologer (voice)
Released: March 12, 1983
Type: Movie
From the depths of space he is coming... Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way here. He is… Genma. Only two people are aware of the imminent catastrophe: Princess Luna, a modern day prophetess and Vega, a cybernetic crusader from a world long since ravaged by Genma. Determined to spare the Earth from a similar fate, Luna and Vega must try to mobilize the most potent psychics in the world. Together, this army of fledging psychic warriors must succeed where billions have tried... and failed. But will they be able to gather their champions in time? Genma’s agents are already on Earth to ensure that their master meets with no opposition!
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Samurai Reincarnation
Title: Samurai Reincarnation
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
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The House of Hanging
Title: The House of Hanging
Character: Sumi Miyasaka
Released: May 26, 1979
Type: Movie
This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.
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Queen Bee
Title: Queen Bee
Character: Rui Hayami
Released: February 11, 1978
Type: Movie
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.
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Curse of the Dog God
Title: Curse of the Dog God
Released: June 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by the locals.
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Lullaby to Kill
Title: Lullaby to Kill
Character: Sakie Tsukasa (Kahei's younger sister)
Released: April 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Character: Oba
Released: December 30, 1972
Type: Movie
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Dancer
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.