Movies: Yoshiko Maki

  • 1970
    Dodes'ka-den

    Dodes'ka-den (1970)

    Dodes'ka-den

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    This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused...

    Dodes'ka-den
  • 1979
    Vengeance Is Mine

    Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

    Vengeance Is Mine

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    A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....

    Vengeance Is Mine
  • 1991
    Rhapsody in August

    Rhapsody in August (1991)

    Rhapsody in August

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    The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii wh...

    Rhapsody in August
  • 1965
    A Trap

    A Trap (1965)

    A Trap

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    When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is ...

    A Trap
  • 1964
    Raised in a Palace

    Raised in a Palace (1964)

    Raised in a Palace

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    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 marria...

    Raised in a Palace
  • 1979
    Gassan

    Gassan (1979)

    Gassan

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    Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko....

    Gassan
  • 1976
    New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

    New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1976)

    New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

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    Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an al...

    New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
  • 1985
    The Empty Table

    The Empty Table (1985)

    The Empty Table

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    One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Although the parents of all the other perpetrators have either resigned from their professional position...

    The Empty Table
  • 1976
    Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

    Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku (1976)

    Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

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    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 are...

    Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
  • 1980
    The First Catch

    The First Catch (1980)

    The First Catch

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    Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi....

    The First Catch
  • 1956
    The Forest Is Alive

    The Forest Is Alive (1956)

    The Forest Is Alive

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    Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"...

    The Forest Is Alive
  • 1993
    Kogarashi Monjirō Returns

    Kogarashi Monjirō Returns (1993)

    Kogarashi Monjirō Returns

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    Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
  • 1994
    Lesson

    Lesson (1994)

    Lesson

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    The days of love between a free-spirited heroine who continues to seek freedom and a young man who is attracted to her charm. Starring Kumiko Akiyoshi....

    Lesson