
Acting
Izumi Yukimura
Born
1937-03-20 (89)
Place of birth
Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
62 titles
Known for
7.0The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
No synopsis available yet.
The Victor Borge Show
1951
NRPeriod comedy with fantasy elements.
Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Anata mo watashi mo o toshigoro
—
9.0A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
The Bride from Japan
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Human Revolution
1973
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
6.0A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife's closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.
The Laughing Frog
2002
NRA non-prolific writer, Takayama Osamu and his wife, Yoshiko, though not blessed with children, live happily together. They should have had peaceful twilight years, but instead, Yoshiko suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, and Osamu also falls ill. Yoshiko, who cannot cope with daily life any longer, goes into a care home, and Osamu is admitted to a hospital, resulting in them living their remaining lives separately. One day, after some time, the couple who have kept battling their illnesses, manage to meet each other. Osamu breathes his last breath on the following day. People around Yoshiko find it difficult to inform her, but she seems to sense Osamu's death.
Perhaps He Is
2005
1970s · 1 titles
1960s · 9 titles
9.01961 Japanese movie
Bandits on the Wind
1961
9.0While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in work and in the personal affairs of his team.
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
1963
7.7A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
You Can Succeed, Too
1964
NRMusical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Takashima and their love interests. Done very much in the style of a Fox musical of the same 1940s, complete with an elaborate "History of Jazz" finale.
The Poem of the Blue Star
1960
8.0Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960
8.0
Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends
1964
8.0A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to Beppu, personal entanglements and old company secrets surface, forcing difficult choices and quiet compromises.
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
7.0It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American style and prohibit the company's entertainment. Members of the Taiko Kyushu Branch Company (Ryohei Miki), who were living in the banquet, were hit by a big blow, and the company and the meeting club were very annoying. After that, the president who went to the business trip to Kyushu met with a sexy Geisha (Junko Ikeuchi) on the way to the tour, and he felt like a fool.
Travel Stories of a Company President
1963
NRCrime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective Yoneyama (Mihashi) to Kobe where a narcotics gang is smuggling drugs in golf balls with the aid of an ex-cop (Takarada).
Showdown on Pier No.3
1960
1950s · 46 titles
NRPeriod comedy with fantasy elements.
Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
1959
9.0A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
The Bride from Japan
1959
10.0Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
All About Marriage
1958
6.3When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.
Desperado Outpost
1959
9.0May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Holiday in Tokyo
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love is Different and Delicious
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Young Lady on Her Way
1956
NRA literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth with a teenage girl, and a daughter in her twenties who falls in love with a younger man and champions sexual liberation.
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
7.8Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the three of them. A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.
So Young, So Bright
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
School Girls
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
All Sold Out
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
School Girls in Costume
1955
10.0In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a suitable lodger who will catch the eye of her daughter.
Bright Young Maidens
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story
1956
8.5A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
The Storm
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Big Laugh Festival of the Edo-ites
1959
NRMasuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
1959
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Assistant President
1958
NRSazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and eventually heads for Nikko, a travel destination. Sazae is once again overwhelmed by the sight of the newlyweds bustling with sunlight, but...
Sazae-san's Marriage
1959
9.0A bus driver and a female conductor on a route deep in the mountains are embroiled in a love affair that is depicted in great detail in this light-hearted romantic drama.
Echo Mountain
1959
8.0No synopsis available yet.
東京シンデレラ娘
1954
NRTwo residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Yaji and Kita on the Road
1958
10.0The story follows a dysfunctional family whose daily life is thrown into chaos when an English tutor from abroad moves into their home. Her presence awakens hidden desires, jealousy, and emotional conflicts among the father, mother, and children, gradually transforming the entire household. At its heart, the film explores love, rivalry, and the longing for a new beginning.
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
1954
10.0The fifth entry in the Company President Series
The Third President
1958
8.0At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right.
New Third-Class Executive
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Anmitsu hime: Amakara shiro no maki
1954
NRThe cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
Birth of Romance
1957
10.0A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958
NRSazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame pranks and neighbors visit, it is difficult even to be alone.
Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Jacks and Jills
1956
NRJapanese comedy film.
浮かれ狐千本櫻
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
乾杯!女学生
1954
NRAbout schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar.
The Blue Mountains
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cheers to the Jazz Girl
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Anmitsu Princess: Story of the Magic Competition
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tenament Party for Edo-ites
1958
NRThe right-hand man of a narcotics ring (Tsuruta) is shot by gangsters and left for dead at a Tokyo waterfront and subsequently suffers from amnesia. Returning to his turf in Kobe, the would be assassins try once again to do him in before he recovers his memory.
The Forgotten Waterfront
1959
8.0Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.
The College Hero
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Housewives Are Suing
1956
NRAinu chieftain Otena Kamui dies leaving a secret to his son. Years later, the grown son and his child are drawn into the hunt for the “Tower of Otena” treasure while a corrupt magistrate’s family fractures around them.
Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
1955
10.0On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
On Wings of Love
1957
NRUrban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a number of women, including his true love, Inako Arima.
Wedding Season
1954
9.0Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Princess Kinuta, who has never left the palace, didn't enjoy communing with wildlife for long when she was chased by bandit moles and accidentally fell into the Valley of the Spider's Web. The princess and a white butterfly bound by a mysterious thread were about to be eaten by the spider queen when they are rescued by Tanukichiyo, a young wandering samurai who happens to be passing by. Historical fantasy comedy starring Hibari and Izumi.
The Princess of Badger Palace
1958
Japanese musical.
A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival
1954
NR1955 Japanese movie
The Rookie Managers
1955
NROutspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry him—then reconsiders, realizing both still have growing to do before love can truly begin.
Blue Buds
1956
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
7.0The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
No synopsis available yet.
The Victor Borge Show
1951

