Yayoi Watanabe

Acting

Yayoi Watanabe

Born

1952-08-24 (74)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Playgirl poster
NR

Playgirl is a Japanese television action/drama series that ran from 1969 to 1976 over a total of 287 episodes. It was conceived in the Spy-Fi genre.

Playgirl

1969

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion poster
7.1

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972

Fateful Mountain Pass poster
NR

Akizuki Rokurōta was born as a child of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but since he is a twin with Tokugawa Iemitsu he is not allowed an official place within the Tokugawa family. Sent away as an adopted son, he continues his wandering journey. One day, he accidentally encounters Toyotomi Hideyori's son Toyotomi Hideya, his mother Katsura-no-miya Renko and their maidservant Sasaka, survivors of the Shogunate attack on Osaka Castle years before who are now fleeing from their refuge in Kyoto. The Tokugawa Shogunate and Yagyū clan are trying to capture or kill them, while on the other hand villains want to use them. Akizuki Rokurōta decides to protect them from both sides.

Fateful Mountain Pass

1974

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song poster
6.1

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

1973

The Transgressor poster
6.4

18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.

The Transgressor

1974

Karate Warriors poster
6.8

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Karate Warriors

1976

Film credits

1970s · 30 titles

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion poster
7.1

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song poster
6.1

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

1973

The Transgressor poster
6.4

18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.

The Transgressor

1974

Karate Warriors poster
6.8

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Karate Warriors

1976

Wolf Guy poster
5.8

Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers.

Wolf Guy

1975

Violent Panic: The Big Crash poster
6.5

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

1976

Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses poster
4.3

The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. But the double finds pleasure not only in women, but in his new status.

Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses

1972

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable poster
6.8

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

1973

The Insatiable poster
5.4

Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant girl, but her life changed completely in the summer of a certain year. During the summer vacation, Yuki returned to her hometown of Kyoto, only to be raped by the lover of her mother. Yuki then abandoned her studies and chose a depraved life. She met the gang leader Kiyoshi Oba and factory industrialists. Although these men could give her more or less physical comfort, they could not open Yuki's locked heart. It was not until the appearance of the young architect Yoichiro Honma that Yuki's love flower gradually bloomed. Soon, Yoichiro's first love while studying in France, Sandra, finds her, which makes Yuki's heart surge. After several twists and turns, Yoichiro decided to marry Yuki, but the trials never stopped...

The Insatiable

1971

The Bodyguard poster
5.1

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?

The Bodyguard

1973

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder poster
6.8

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

1972

Woman His Prey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman His Prey

1972

Wandering Ginza Butterfly poster
6.8

Nami "The Red Cherry Blossom" returns to her old stomping ground in the seedy Tokyo district of Ginza after a stint in prison for killing a yakuza boss. She soon settles in, living in her uncle's pool hall and working at the local hostess club. But when ruthless yakuza Ōwada attempts to take control of the club, Nami and her uncle devise a plan to take him down.

Wandering Ginza Butterfly

1972

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police poster
5.9

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

1973

Festival Champ poster
5.3

Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his colleague's love letter to her but forgetting to mention it's from another man.

Festival Champ

1976

Big Bad Wolf poster
NR

1973 Toei film.

Big Bad Wolf

1973

The Okinawa War of Ten Years poster
6.2

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tries to compete. Now sides are drawn among the local yakuza guys who used to be best friends since their childhood, and brother fights brother. It results in the biggest yakuza war in Okinawa.

The Okinawa War of Ten Years

1978

Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando poster
8.0

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…

Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando

1972

The Runaway Season poster
8.0

The third movie in the "Boso" series.

The Runaway Season

1976

Gambling Den Heist poster
7.2

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

Gambling Den Heist

1975

Sex Up and Down poster
6.3

A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.

Sex Up and Down

1972

A Woman’s Road poster
NR

Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.

A Woman’s Road

1973

Rogue of the Night poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rogue of the Night

1972

Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa poster
NR

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa

1973

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad poster
7.0

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad

1972

New Shameless School poster
9.0

Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.

New Shameless School

1971

No artwork available
NR

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.

The Gambling Nun

1971

No artwork available
8.0

Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.

Wolves on Motorcycles

1971

The Sucker's Blunt Dagger poster
NR

A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.

The Sucker's Blunt Dagger

1971

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tone no Watashi poster
NR

In a castle town in Oshu, the tyrannical Hikoemon Nomura keeps his second wife, Otoku, confined indoors. When Hikoemon’s brother Seijirō tries to assault Otoku and is stopped by the servant Jihei, he accuses them of an affair. Enraged, Hikoemon blinds Jihei and kills Otoku. Surviving, Jihei swears revenge and reappears seven years later at the Tone River crossing.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tone no Watashi

1979

Series credits