Acting

Reiko Minakami

Born 1919-02-04

Acting credits

Zero Focus poster
6.3

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.

Zero Focus

1961

A Hen in the Wind poster
7.1

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, so she resorts to prostitution. A month later, her husband returns to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together, they must deal with the consequences.

A Hen in the Wind

1948

The Inheritance poster
7.3

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

The Inheritance

1962

Our Marriage poster
7.1

Poverty-stricken sisters reach the age when they start attracting marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money, but their ambitions clash when they both fall for the same man.

Our Marriage

1962

I Will Buy You poster
7.1

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

I Will Buy You

1956

The Big Ambition poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Big Ambition

1955

The Shape of Night poster
6.8

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.

The Shape of Night

1964

Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni

1952

Modern People poster
4.0

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

Modern People

1952

Sincere Heart poster
6.5

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Sincere Heart

1953

Home Sweet Home poster
6.8

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...

Home Sweet Home

1951

Doctor's Day Off poster
6.8

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...

Doctor's Day Off

1952

Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen poster
NR

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate salaryman Goro Mutsu, who is transferred from Kyushu.

Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen

1958

A Woman's Sorrows poster
6.7

Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of man for any marriage prospect. Wed into an affluent family that practically treats her as a housemaid, locked away like a 'doll' by her estimation, Hiroko’s own submission to traditional thinking brings contradictions to light.

A Woman's Sorrows

1937

Her Hoodlum Lover poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Her Hoodlum Lover

1957

Komadori fujin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Komadori fujin

1948

Youth in Fury poster
7.0

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth and the outer Western extremism as major student protests take place.

Youth in Fury

1960

Fountainhead poster
6.1

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Fountainhead

1956

Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove poster
NR

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father, Ryutaro, whom she always thought was an agricultural and forestry engineer, was a circus clown. Over time, Mariko's singing attracted the attention of the public.

Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove

1952

Ai to kanashimi to poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Ai to kanashimi to

1962

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu poster
NR

1953 Japanese movie

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

1953

The Ball at the Anjo House poster
7.0

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.

The Ball at the Anjo House

1947

Red Fan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Red Fan

1952

Always in My Heart poster
6.8

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.

Always in My Heart

1953