Mineko Yorozuyo

Mineko Yorozuyo

Born: June 28, 1919
in Ishikawa. Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
After graduating from Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School, he joined the Takarazuka Girls Opera Company (now Takarazuka Revue). After leaving Takarazuka Revue, he played a supporting role mainly in movies , stages and TV dramas . Received the 9th Arts Festival Award Encouragement Award.

Movies for Mineko Yorozuyo...

Gemini
Title: Gemini
Released: September 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
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Mr. Baseball
Title: Mr. Baseball
Character: Hiroko's Grandmother
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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Snow Country
Title: Snow Country
Released: April 10, 1965
Type: Movie
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
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River Washes Away the Moon
Title: River Washes Away the Moon
Released: September 8, 1963
Type: Movie
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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Title: Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Released: December 16, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Title: A Wanderer's Notebook
Released: September 29, 1962
Type: Movie
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
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The tragedy of a young warrior
Title: The tragedy of a young warrior
Released: July 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu. Shuntaro Amano (Yukio Hashi) entered the school after going through numerous trials and tribulations, and quickly became known for his outstanding talent. Some time after Shuntaro's admission to school, the daughter of director Shiho (Eriko Sanjo) returns from a trip to Tokyo. Shiho is attracted to the intelligent and caring Shuntaro, and soon they fall in love with each other. However, their feelings for each other are futile, and soon Shiho and Shuntaro find themselves in the vortex of time...
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Heso no taisho
Title: Heso no taisho
Released: June 20, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Title: The Temple of Wild Geese
Character: Tatsu Kirihara
Released: January 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
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A Good Man, A Good Day
Title: A Good Man, A Good Day
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Title: Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Character: Mieko's mother
Released: November 22, 1959
Type: Movie
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
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Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
Title: Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
Released: March 17, 1959
Type: Movie
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Snow Country
Title: Snow Country
Character: Geisha Kikuyu
Released: April 30, 1957
Type: Movie
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
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Evening Calm
Title: Evening Calm
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
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An Osaka Story
Title: An Osaka Story
Character: Otake
Released: March 6, 1957
Type: Movie
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Title: Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Character: Tobacco shop owner's wife
Released: October 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
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Night River
Title: Night River
Character: Yasu
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Sisters of Gion
Title: Sisters of Gion
Released: May 18, 1956
Type: Movie
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Marital Relations
Title: Marital Relations
Released: September 13, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.