Wakiko Kano

Acting

Wakiko Kano

Born

1956-04-23 (70)

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Space Sheriff Gavan poster
8.0

Earth is invaded by the criminal organization known as Makuu, led by Don Horror, who had first destroyed a space colony near Earth. Don Horror wants to dominate the whole universe, and the Earth represents an obstacle that he has to overcome by turning it into a domain for all evil. In response to Makuu's attack, Space Sheriff Gavan of the Galaxy Federal Police is deployed to Earth to defend his mother's home world.

Space Sheriff Gavan

1982

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

1977

Space Sheriff Sharivan poster
8.5

Space Sheriff Sharivan is the second installment in Toei's Metal Hero Series and aired on the TV Asahi network from 4 March 1983 through 24 February 1984. It served as a direct sequel to its predecessor, Space Sheriff Gavan and featured many of the same characters. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Shariban, The Space Guardian.

Space Sheriff Sharivan

1983

Space Sheriff Shaider poster
8.8

Space Sheriff Shaider was a tokusatsu television show that aired on from 1984 to 1985. It is the last of the Space Sheriff Series, the previous two being Space Sheriff Gavan and Space Sheriff Sharivan. Action footage from Shaider was used for Season 2 of VR Troopers. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Space Captain Sheider.

Space Sheriff Shaider

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

花ふぶき女スリ三姉妹

1988

The Wild Daisy poster
6.3

Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their time.

The Wild Daisy

1981

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 11 titles

The Wild Daisy poster
6.3

Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their time.

The Wild Daisy

1981

Apartment Wife: Serial Murders poster
NR

Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain man, and behind him lies a woman with a past...

Apartment Wife: Serial Murders

1986

Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders poster
NR

Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The tour group is traveling in a luxurious coach to Lake Megami in the Tateshina Plains. On the way, they are disturbed to hear that Shirai, a hostess who was supposed to come along on the tour, has been murdered. And the next day, the body of Hasegawa, another tour member, is floating in Lake Megami...

Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders

1987

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun poster
NR

Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was kicked out of the monastery long ago. He is enterprising, smart and not too cruel, so his accomplices love him. Posing as an envoy from the abbot of the Kennei Temple, Kotiama plays a show in front of Lord Matsue with an income of 150,000 koku, and extorts money from him. The film is based on the famous play by Kawatake Mokuami.

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun

1982

A Hunter's Diary poster
1.0

Adaptation of "The Lady Killer" by Masako Togawa.

A Hunter's Diary

1983

White skinned beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

White skinned beauty

1983

The Beauty of Heaven and Hell poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Beauty of Heaven and Hell

1982

Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari poster
NR

Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suicide. In a panic to get to her quickly, Yutaka punches a man at a taxi stand. The next day, when Yutaka's lover hears the news about a man dying and realizes it was the man Yutaka punched, she demands money...

Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari

1986

No artwork available
NR

Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travels to the lawless Kanbei Onigawara family from Shimizu. All hell breaks loose when Kanbei returns with his older brother, Kitsu An Takei, and Katsuzo challenges Chogoro.

Jirocho of Shimizu 1: The Glorious Port of Shimizu

1981

The Black Cat Mansion of Hatred poster
NR

Mysterious incidents occur around geiko in Fukagawa, and there is always the presence of a black cat at the scene of the tragedy. The woman, unaware of her presence, is pulled away by the banya, but a ronin, pretending to be a bouncer of the geisha district, appears and saves her, finally unraveling the fate of the woman.

The Black Cat Mansion of Hatred

1984

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning I poster
NR

Kenji Matsushita is a reportage writer. While he was interviewing the tattoo contest, he met a woman with a tattoo of a large snake, Kinue. Kineda is the mama of the bar and the wife of the president of the earth-moving company, Mogami. She was a sympathetic woman, and Kenji was drawn to her body and spent the night together. The silk branch was found in a dismembered corpse in the bathroom of her apartment, and the carved torso of the snake disappeared. Since the bathroom was completely closed, the investigation was stopped. So Kenji consults with his lover, Nobuko's older brother, Kyosuke. Kyosuke is a genius, and he solved the mystery of the closed room without difficulty. However, the criminal cannot be identified yet.

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning I

1983

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