Chigusa Takayama

Acting

Chigusa Takayama

Born

1931-03-06 (95)

Place of birth

Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Japanese actress.

Known for

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

Super Sentai Zyuranger poster
8.1

Five young warriors from the ancient civilization of Dinosaur-evolved Humans are awakened in the present day after 170 million years of suspended animation when their sworn enemy, Bandora the Witch, is inadvertently released from her magical container on Planet Nemesis by two astronauts. The five warriors, the Zyurangers, must summon the power of mechanical-looking deities known as the Guardian Beasts, each modeled after a different prehistoric beast, in order to protect mankind from Bandora's evil forces.

Super Sentai Zyuranger

1992

Chōjin Sentai Jetman poster
7.9

The Sky Force sends five highly trained operatives to participate in an experiment which will expose them to Birdonic Waves, resulting in superhuman abilities. But when the Earth Ship is attacked by Vyram, the majority of the Birdonic Waves are sent to Earth and find four unsuspecting civilians. Now, it's up to these four accidental super humans – Raita, Kaori, Ako, and Gai – alongside Ryu, the only original operative to receive Birdonic Waves, to defend their dimension against Vyram.

Chōjin Sentai Jetman

1991

Nun in Rope Hell poster
6.3

A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.

Nun in Rope Hell

1984

Sandakan No. 8 poster
7.8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Sandakan No. 8

1974

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.4

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

Nun in Rope Hell poster
6.3

A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.

Nun in Rope Hell

1984

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.4

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

The Sea and Poison poster
7.0

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.

The Sea and Poison

1986

Luminous Woman poster
7.0

A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

Luminous Woman

1987

Moment of Demon poster
5.3

Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.

Moment of Demon

1985

Rolling on the Road poster
4.8

George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.

Rolling on the Road

1981

Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion poster
6.9

Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.

Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

1985

Rinbu poster
NR

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.

Rinbu

1988

Gemini Woman poster
4.9

A man catches the eye of an elegant lady at a bar. She relents to his advances. In the morning he throws her out of his apartment. He will soon regret his mistake when she slowly plots revenge.

Gemini Woman

1984

Cliff of Death poster
NR

Ogata is an employee of a securities company. He is selected as the president's secretary because of his ability. However, he has a romantic relationship with the president's daughter, Michiyo. The president sees this as a problem and transfers Ogata to the Hokkaido branch. Ogata takes revenge on the president. Ogata, who killed the company president who was recovering from a cerebral hemorrhage, marries his daughter. He tries to make the company and property his own, but... It depicts an ambitious man who will do anything to achieve his goal.

Cliff of Death

1982

Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki poster
NR

Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when suddenly the window opens and Nakagawa, a middle school classmate, appears. Shimizu, who had become a film director, has died. The two go to the funeral, and on the way home they pass a man accompanied by a beautiful woman. That man is none other than his childhood friend, Kimio Kondo. Kimio is the epitome of a money man. He is a doctor working at a university hospital, and on the side, he writes new music lyrics and is popular with nurses and popular singers. The three are excited to see each other again after a long time, and plan a class reunion trip to Kimio's luxurious mansion...

Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki

1985

Ken-chan no oneesan poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ken-chan no oneesan

1983

Our Wedding poster
8.5

On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...

Our Wedding

1983

1970s · 27 titles

Sandakan No. 8 poster
7.8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Sandakan No. 8

1974

Pastoral: To Die in the Country poster
7.5

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974

The Youth Killer poster
6.5

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

The Youth Killer

1976

Wife to Be Sacrificed poster
5.2

A former husband with a dark obsession returns to his ex-wife’s life, ready to unleash a torrent of cruel, perverse devotion.

Wife to Be Sacrificed

1974

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window poster
5.9

For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

1972

Lusty Sisters poster
4.8

Three sisters live alienated existences in modern day Tokyo. One works as a secretary, one is a prostitute, and one is a criminal. The secretary is cynically unhappy with the sexist business world which limits her opportunities for advancement and makes her a target for her lecherous boss. The prostitute lives an aimless life, drifting between men, and often the target of either police or jealous wives. The criminal, who lives by disrupting the society which oppresses her two sisters, is the only happy one of the three.

Lusty Sisters

1972

A Modern Day Schoolma'am poster
9.0

Naomi, a high school teacher, feels lonely living alone, so she secretly begins living with her student Keiji. It could be said that she is providing for Keiji as an outlet for her sexual desires rather than living together. Naomi, who has a natural lewd blood in her veins, knows that Keiji's older brother, Keisuke, is passionate about her, so she immediately decides to have a relationship with him. One day, Keiji gets fed up with Naomi and disappears...

A Modern Day Schoolma'am

1973

Newlywed Hell poster
3.8

Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town she barely escapes the sexual advances of an old friend and accidentally comes across a scene that repels and excites her. Through an open doorway she spies a woman bound with rope. Thus begins her descent into the world of submission and pleasure.

Newlywed Hell

1975

Tattooed Flower Vase poster
6.0

After losing her husband, a traditional puppet artisan has lived a life without love. However, her relationship with her daughter and the arrival of some dangerous acquaintances inevitably spark new curiosities in her mind and body.

Tattooed Flower Vase

1976

Lovers Are Wet poster
5.8

A seemingly aimless drifter on the run returns to his hometown. Although some recognize him, he vehemently denies his identity and begins an affair with the owner of a porno theater before setting down a lurid path of sex and violence.

Lovers Are Wet

1973

Apartment Wife: Prime Woman poster
9.0

The story depicts the love and hate surrounding artificial insemination between a husband who is unable to have children and a normal wife.

Apartment Wife: Prime Woman

1972

Evening Primrose poster
7.3

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.

Evening Primrose

1974

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama poster
7.5

The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a determined detective.

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

1974

The Last Laugh poster
3.0

Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.

The Last Laugh

1972

Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market poster
6.0

Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.

Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market

1972

Fully Opened: Sisters Exposed poster
10.0

A sister lives with her other two sisters who work as strippers.

Fully Opened: Sisters Exposed

1976

Wet Lips poster
5.3

A prostitute and her lover go on the run after killing her pimp.

Wet Lips

1972

The Key poster
4.3

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.

The Key

1974

Tomodachi poster
NR

Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class. Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.

Tomodachi

1974

The Four Roughnecks poster
5.0

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.

The Four Roughnecks

1974

Dangerous Liaisons poster
4.0

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.

Dangerous Liaisons

1978

Morning Fog poster
NR

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a family of one mother and one daughter, and her emotional exchange with her mother against the backdrop of the harsh natural environment.

Morning Fog

1971

Delinquent Girl: Alley Cat In Heat poster
4.8

A carefree country girl runs away to Tokyo and meets a guy in a suit, ready to take advantage of her, unaware that her personality will soon change the usual course of events.

Delinquent Girl: Alley Cat In Heat

1973

Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble

1975

Secret Book: Turbulent Cloud poster
9.0

In the early Shōwa era, university student Gōji Murata boards with the Itō family, old friends of his late father. One day, the family's daughter Tomiko catches him reading an erotic book. Rather than being shocked, she’s intrigued, and soon gives herself to him. That night, her older sister Kyōko, having learned what happened, quietly slips into Gōji’s room..."

Secret Book: Turbulent Cloud

1974

Sanctuary in the Night poster
8.5

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Sanctuary in the Night

1973

Koichiro Uno's Yummy and Meaty poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Koichiro Uno's Yummy and Meaty

1977

1960s · 18 titles

Intentions of Murder poster
7.0

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

Intentions of Murder

1964

A Colt is My Passport poster
7.1

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A Colt is My Passport

1967

Smashing the 0-Line poster
6.3

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

Smashing the 0-Line

1960

Outlaw: Heartless poster
6.8

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Outlaw: Heartless

1968

The Warped Ones poster
7.1

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

The Warped Ones

1960

Kill or Be Killed poster
NR

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Kill or Be Killed

1966

The Gambling Monk poster
NR

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...

The Gambling Monk

1963

The Long Death poster
9.0

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.

The Long Death

1964

Tokyo In Love poster
NR

Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away...

Tokyo In Love

1965

Black Sun poster
6.4

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.

Black Sun

1964

Red Handkerchief poster
7.2

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.

Red Handkerchief

1964

A Chain of Islands poster
6.8

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.

A Chain of Islands

1965

The Last Lady poster
NR

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

The Last Lady

1967

The Scarred Angel poster
NR

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older sister Sumiko's suicide. While Hachiro was in juvenile detention, Sumiko committed suicide, but there are too many mysteries surrounding this suicide...

The Scarred Angel

1966

Ningen ni kakeruna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ningen ni kakeruna

1964

The Bride is Fifteen poster
NR

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual photographic portrait embody Nikkatsu’s 1960s youth-film aesthetic. Clean, hopeful, and pop-oriented. The large white title, handwritten for a softer impression, injects playful energy that contrasts with the strict vertical text blocks. As Japan’s youth culture blossomed after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, posters like this captured the spirit of romance and rebellion marketed to teenage audiences. The vivid color palette and carefree composition signal a stylistic shift from postwar black-and-white melodrama to the vibrant optimism of modern Technicolor cinema.

The Bride is Fifteen

1964

Dai shusse monogatari poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Dai shusse monogatari

1961

The Frozen Plains poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Frozen Plains

1962

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