Mako Midori

Mako Midori

Born: March 26, 1944
in Taipai, Taiwan

Movies for Mako Midori...

Star Sand
Title: Star Sand
Character: Hiromi (elderly)
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.
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The Dog Bridegroom
Title: The Dog Bridegroom
Character: Himiko
Released: May 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you will get what you want.", so she decides to give it a try.
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埋もれる
Title: 埋もれる
Released: March 16, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Egoists
Title: The Egoists
Character: Chiyoko Sugita
Released: June 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
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The Stupid Teacher
Title: The Stupid Teacher
Character: Eriko Akakura
Released: September 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.
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Shinran: Path to Purity
Title: Shinran: Path to Purity
Released: June 2, 1987
Type: Movie
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
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Gate of Youth 2
Title: Gate of Youth 2
Character: Teruyo
Released: January 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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Title: Pro Hunter
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Yumechiyo Nikki
Released: February 15, 1981
Type: TV
This is a human drama that captures the lives of Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam who has been told that she does not have long to live due to radiation exposure in her body, and people of good will who have dreams but can only live clumsily.
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Title: The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Released: September 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
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Love in the Mud
Title: Love in the Mud
Released: July 30, 1977
Type: Movie
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Sachiko
Released: May 15, 1977
Type: Movie
A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together, despite inertia and financial hardship. Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi.
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The Japanese Belly Button
Title: The Japanese Belly Button
Character: Helen Amatsu / Momoe / Junko
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
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Utamaro's World
Title: Utamaro's World
Character: Oryo
Released: February 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
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I Am a Cat
Title: I Am a Cat
Character: Teacher of Koto
Released: May 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Title: The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Military Comfort Woman
Title: Military Comfort Woman
Character: Fusa
Released: July 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
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The Beast Shall Die
Title: The Beast Shall Die
Released: June 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Title: Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Character: Yumi
Released: February 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.
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Stray Dog
Title: Stray Dog
Character: Misao Tsukuda
Released: September 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
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A Japanese Demon
Title: A Japanese Demon
Character: Aya Komakura
Released: September 29, 1973
Type: Movie
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Lost Lovers
Title: Lost Lovers
Released: November 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action.
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
Title: Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
Released: September 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Follow the Girls
Title: Follow the Girls
Released: May 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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The Gentle Japanese
Title: The Gentle Japanese
Released: March 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
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Zenigeba
Title: Zenigeba
Released: October 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by George Akiyama
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Attack at Daylight
Title: Attack at Daylight
Character: Reiko
Released: February 8, 1970
Type: Movie
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Title: Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Character: Mimiko
Released: November 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
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喜劇 深夜族
Title: 喜劇 深夜族
Character: 重盛幸子
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
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Too Young to Die
Title: Too Young to Die
Character: Yumiko
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A young couple, composed by a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues in director's Kiyoshi Nishimura's debut film, almost totally filmed in one space.
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Blind Beast
Title: Blind Beast
Character: Aki
Released: January 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
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The Shy Deceiver
Title: The Shy Deceiver
Character: Hanako
Released: June 15, 1968
Type: Movie
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
Title: Three Resurrected Drunkards
Character: Nechan
Released: March 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
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Wild Ducks and Green Onions
Title: Wild Ducks and Green Onions
Released: March 16, 1968
Type: Movie
The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant appearance; the amorous Kyuhei Maruki (Tadao Takashima); the inventive Yosuke Mori (Hideo Sunatsuka); and the amorous Mami (Mako Midori), set one bizarre trap after another in their quest for the perfect crime in this wry crime comedy.
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The Great Villains
Title: The Great Villains
Character: Yoshiko Ota
Released: February 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.
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Army Intelligence
Title: Army Intelligence
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
Title: The Rickshaw Man’s Son
Character: Tamae
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
Title: Shogun and His Mistress 2
Character: Okoto
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The subject is life inside a shogun's harem, and the treatment is again more restrained than in most of the historical pinku eiga films being produced by independents at the time, but the tone of this middle installment in the trilogy is decidedly more grim than that of its predecessor. There's a good deal of abuse and violence on display, as the shogun dies and his concubines are sent to a remote convent to become buddhist nuns. the hysterical nuns are being punished for their transgressions and committing suicide in grand exploitation fashion.
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Secret Love
Title: Secret Love
Character: Kumi Ito
Released: December 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Pretty Jade
Title: The Pretty Jade
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Nocturnal Lights
Title: Nocturnal Lights
Released: June 19, 1966
Type: Movie
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Title: Pretty Devil Yoko
Character: Yoko
Released: March 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here (Hayato Tani) the first boyfriend. Director Yasuo Furuhata (his first picture) lets his camera roll in trendy clubs amongst partying youngsters in a way that could've been out of 60s England or a Nikkatsu film.
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Women Doing Time
Title: Women Doing Time
Released: March 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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A Circus Girl
Title: A Circus Girl
Released: February 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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Night Bitch
Title: Night Bitch
Released: February 3, 1966
Type: Movie
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.
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Gang's Upward Strategy
Title: Gang's Upward Strategy
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Secret Club 000
Title: Secret Club 000
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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Chained Bitch
Title: Chained Bitch
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Dupe
Title: Dupe
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Color
Title: Color
Released: June 13, 1965
Type: Movie
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Ankoku gai jingi
Title: Ankoku gai jingi
Released: June 13, 1965
Type: Movie
A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organization and emerging powers. A huge gangster story depicting a three-way turf war on a large scale.
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A Charming Devil
Title: A Charming Devil
Released: May 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Movie adaptation of the TV series.
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Title: Tale of Japanese Burglars
Character: Fukuko Hayashida
Released: May 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Released: February 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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Sex Peddlers
Title: Sex Peddlers
Released: January 30, 1965
Type: Movie
A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.
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The Spying Sorceress
Title: The Spying Sorceress
Character: Oshino
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.
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Female
Title: Female
Released: November 21, 1964
Type: Movie
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Raised in a Palace
Title: Raised in a Palace
Character: Tsutae
Released: September 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).
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Night Scandal
Title: Night Scandal
Character: Fuyuko Enjo
Released: July 11, 1964
Type: Movie
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Main Street in the Underworld
Title: Main Street in the Underworld
Released: April 25, 1964
Type: Movie
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Night Scandal in Japan
Title: Night Scandal in Japan
Character: Natsuko Namiki
Released: March 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori. - Pulpinternational