Hideko Yoshida

Hideko Yoshida

Born: January 7, 1944
in Kanazawa, Prefettura di Ishikawa, Giappone

Movies for Hideko Yoshida...

Title: Winter Sakura
Character: Inaba Yuri
Released: January 16, 2011
Type: TV
"Fuyu no Sakura" is described as a pure love story with similarities to the popular Korean drama "Winter Sonata" (titled "Fuyu no Sonata" in Japan). Kusanagi plays a gentle glass craftsman in Yamagata who has no experience in love. Imai plays an older housewife with a husband and daughter who goes on a trip alone to Yamagata, hoping to see sakura trees blooming in winter. She gets into an accident, but is saved by Kusanagi. He ends up tending to her, and the two are soon drawn to each other.
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Prodigy
Title: Prodigy
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...
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Japan Sinks
Title: Japan Sinks
Released: July 15, 2006
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.
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Helen the Baby Fox
Title: Helen the Baby Fox
Released: March 18, 2006
Type: Movie
A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Released: November 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
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For the coming day
Title: For the coming day
Released: May 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has stopped talking to him since he collapsed once. Noriko Imaizumi refuses to undergo surgery because her business has taken off and continues to recuperate at home. And 18-year-old Emi Akizuki insists on visiting the town where she used to live. Everyone is trying their best to live their lives while keeping an eye on their imminent death, which may come at any moment. Meanwhile, Yuki, a nurse like Miyo, discovers she is pregnant.
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Heaven's Bookstore
Title: Heaven's Bookstore
Character: Yone
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
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Cutie Honey
Title: Cutie Honey
Character: Kyoko Onitani
Released: May 29, 2004
Type: Movie
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
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Title: Divorce Lawyer
Character: Orie Sawamura
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: TV
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up obstacles and interfering, causing Takako's employees and clients to drift away. She finally puts together a new staff consisting of a college student who knows little about the law, a girl who applied for the job in hopes of meeting a rich guy, a hard-nosed lawyer, and a paralegal who hasn't passed the bar exam yet. Takako reluctantly handles divorce cases with her incompetent crew. For an elite lawyer like her, divorce cases are the most boring and unrewarding cases that exist. Through clashing with her employees and clients, Takako soon becomes a very mature and tough lawyer. "Divorce Lawyer" also tells the story of how difficult it is to judge love and relationships in legal terms.
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Tokyo: Level One
Title: Tokyo: Level One
Character: Izumi Environment Bureau Director
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
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Title: Innocence in Bloom
Released: October 7, 2003
Type: TV
The older sister who had set backs in Tokyo, and her younger sister who wants nothing more than to move there. The two sisters, who were born and raised in a teahouse called Juicchome Chaya halfway up Mt. Takao on the outskirts of Tokyo, seek for happiness while living in a beautiful natural setting and experiencing different love affairs in this pure and heartfelt story. But one thing they can't get around in their search for happiness is the family. First there's the father, a pigheaded guy with an artisan spirit who pushes his weight around as father, and then the mother who's a tricky customer in her own right. And it's not only the family, the whole village seems to be following the love complications of our two heroines with bated breath and spreading the word around.
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Robot Contest
Title: Robot Contest
Character: Obaba
Released: September 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Satomi is not putting much effort into her school work. She is told by her instructor that she is short of the minimum number of credits to advance. One option is for her to participate in the Robot Club, which is participating in a robot contest that is a single-elimination challenge. Satomi and the club begin working to rise to the top.
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Title: ペットシッター沢口華子の事件簿
Released: November 11, 2001
Type: TV
Pet Sitter Hanako Sawaguchi Case Files
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Cardboard House Girl
Title: Cardboard House Girl
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who lost everything.
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By Player
Title: By Player
Character: Taiji's wife
Released: December 2, 2000
Type: Movie
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
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Keiho
Title: Keiho
Character: Kafka's Mother
Released: February 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
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Will to Live
Title: Will to Live
Character: Old woman at village
Released: January 15, 1999
Type: Movie
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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The Pillow Book
Title: The Pillow Book
Character: The Aunt / The Maid
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
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Kokkai e ikô!
Title: Kokkai e ikô!
Released: May 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
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Tora-san Confesses
Title: Tora-san Confesses
Character: Seiko
Released: December 23, 1991
Type: Movie
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san.
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My Soul Is Slashed
Title: My Soul Is Slashed
Character: Kimi
Released: June 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.
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Company Executives
Title: Company Executives
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Neo Tokyo
Title: Neo Tokyo
Character: Shojo Sachi (segment "Labyrinth Labyrinthos") (voice)
Released: April 15, 1989
Type: Movie
A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.
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Kaito Ruby
Title: Kaito Ruby
Character: Bank Clerk
Released: November 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.
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Ana
Title: Ana
Character: Akiko Mori
Released: March 13, 1984
Type: Movie
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth.
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Title: Kagaku Sentai Dynaman
Character: Takemoto
Released: February 5, 1983
Type: TV
Five scientists are defenders of the Earth. They have great dreams and transform using the Dyna Brace.
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An Ocean to Cross
Title: An Ocean to Cross
Character: Koyoshi
Released: January 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Character: Fumie Akechi
Released: July 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
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New - No Longer Human
Title: New - No Longer Human
Released: September 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.
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Younger Sister
Title: Younger Sister
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
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Machi no Hi
Title: Machi no Hi
Character: Takeko
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other.
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The Shinano River
Title: The Shinano River
Released: November 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.
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Daddy on a Rocking Boat
Title: Daddy on a Rocking Boat
Released: November 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya
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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: Oto
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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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Title: Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Character: Ikuyo
Released: July 24, 1971
Type: Movie
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
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Am I An Actress?
Title: Am I An Actress?
Character: Self
Released: June 2, 1969
Type: Movie
This documentary follows and records interviews with an actress in an underground theater troupe and others around her
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
Released: January 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it. Tracking down the real culprit will take him along a twisted trail that involves the Shogun's harem, hidden Christians, and positively pregnant politics!
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My Destiny
Title: My Destiny
Character: Kayo
Released: June 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Man Without a Map
Title: The Man Without a Map
Released: June 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
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Sing a Song of Sex
Title: Sing a Song of Sex
Character: Sachiko Kaneda
Released: February 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.