Acting

Kuniko Ishii

Acting credits

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 poster
7.1

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972

Zatoichi's Conspiracy poster
7.0

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who is now wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is, in reality, manipulating the ownership of a now valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

1973

Nomugi Pass poster
7.2

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

Nomugi Pass

1979

Go Nagai's Scary Zone: The Mysterious Demon poster
6.0

Japanese direct-to-video horror film

Go Nagai's Scary Zone: The Mysterious Demon

1989

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love poster
7.0

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

1968

Yabanjin no Nekutai poster
NR

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.

Yabanjin no Nekutai

1969

A Chorus of One Million People poster
NR

A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.

A Chorus of One Million People

1972

Attack at Daylight poster
5.0

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Attack at Daylight

1970