Sumiko Minami

Acting

Sumiko Minami

Born

1931-02-24 (95)

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Rope Hell poster
5.0

Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.

Rope Hell

1978

I loved you, loved you, loved you so much poster
NR

A coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who believes in tomorrow and strives to live a bright and healthy life, and his three daughters.

I loved you, loved you, loved you so much

1966

Female Beautician Rope Discipline poster
4.7

Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei's ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa's beauty shop clients, begins a sexual relationship with her. The lesbian affair is also accentuated by some more S&M.

Female Beautician Rope Discipline

1981

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

Kanto County Sex Unit poster
3.7

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Kanto County Sex Unit

1973

Zoom Up: Graduation Photo poster
4.3

For a little extra money a college student agrees to pose as a nude model for a magazine. But she finds out too late that the magazine is a pornographic one. When it gets published it causes problems with her boyfriend who happens to see it. She is persuaded into do a few more sessions and each time the setups becomes more extreme. She begins to lose herself in heat of passion and doesn’t notice the camera is shooting when the action turns into the real thing.

Zoom Up: Graduation Photo

1983

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 16 titles

Rope Hell poster
5.0

Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.

Rope Hell

1978

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

Kanto County Sex Unit poster
3.7

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Kanto County Sex Unit

1973

Apartment Wife: Agony Afternoon poster
10.0

A young couple and his wife's sister live in a housing complex. When her wife becomes suspicious of the relationship between her husband and her sister, she falls into an unexpected trap.

Apartment Wife: Agony Afternoon

1972

Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry poster
5.5

An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her, not knowing that she is involved in a kinky sadomasochistic relationship with her artist father.

Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry

1973

Lady Chatterly in Tokyo poster
4.4

Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire's son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their gardener and chauffeur, Nitta.

Lady Chatterly in Tokyo

1977

Nagasaki Butterfly poster
5.7

Oman travels from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha and gambler.

Nagasaki Butterfly

1972

Love Hunter poster
4.8

Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as her mother and grandfather having sex together. Seeking to rejuvenate her marriage, she throws a wild party. The ploy is a success.

Love Hunter

1972

Kindan: Seifuku no modae poster
4.0

A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly tries to take advantage of her pure love and she runs away. Later she discovers that an older woman has been paying him for his intimate attentions.

Kindan: Seifuku no modae

1976

Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl poster
4.3

A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.

Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl

1976

Sukeban Deka: Dirty Mary poster
9.0

A tough female cop matches wits with a blackmailing killer.

Sukeban Deka: Dirty Mary

1974

Red Light Tobita Brothel poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Red Light Tobita Brothel

1975

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! poster
3.7

A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!

1977

Three Wives: Wild Nights poster
7.5

A suspense drama that comically depicts the intersection of love, sex, and money between men and women. One day, an affair with Taro Mishima's wife, Itsuko, and his subordinate Akizuki was discovered. Mishima blames them, but the relationship with hostess Noriko is pointed out. After all this, they divorce and each remarry. However, Mishima's carnal desire extended to a young housekeeper Kimiko. Noriko's son Takashi marries his former lover, Etsuko. They start a new life at the residence of Mishima. Two men and three women cross each other under one roof, and a storm of desire blows up.

Three Wives: Wild Nights

1972

Office Lady Journal: Ruined Lust poster
10.0

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Office Lady Journal: Ruined Lust

1974

Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution poster
8.5

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution

1973

1960s · 20 titles

I loved you, loved you, loved you so much poster
NR

A coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who believes in tomorrow and strives to live a bright and healthy life, and his three daughters.

I loved you, loved you, loved you so much

1966

Dice and Swords poster
7.7

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.

Dice and Swords

1968

Ai to shi no katami poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ai to shi no katami

1962

Fight of the Gamblers poster
6.0

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.

Fight of the Gamblers

1963

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

Satsujin-sha o oe poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Satsujin-sha o oe

1962

Cat Changed Into Tiger poster
NR

A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake. Along the way, he meets an eye-patch-wearing killer, which only confounds his misadventures.

Cat Changed Into Tiger

1962

Utau abarenbō poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Utau abarenbō

1962

For This We Fight poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

For This We Fight

1961

The Storm over Arabia poster
8.0

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.

The Storm over Arabia

1961

Invasion of Kanto Government poster
NR

A passionate man, driven by his boss's will, who fell to an assassin's blade, dedicates himself to rebuilding the gang. This thrilling, entertaining masterpiece by Eiki weaves together love and longing into its intense portrayal.

Invasion of Kanto Government

1965

Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki

1962

Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji

1962

Gunman's Alley poster
NR

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother.

Gunman's Alley

1961

Asu no hanayome poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Asu no hanayome

1962

Immortal Guy poster
NR

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuke's relief does not last long, he learns from Kumagoro that Toseikai are acting ruthlessly here too.

Immortal Guy

1967

Aoime no Sugao poster
NR

A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.

Aoime no Sugao

1961

The Hunter's Diary poster
4.8

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

The Hunter's Diary

1964

Return to Kanto Prison poster
NR

Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.

Return to Kanto Prison

1967

Kiriko's Tango poster
NR

A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.

Kiriko's Tango

1963

1950s · 21 titles

Eight Hours of Terror poster
7.5

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Eight Hours of Terror

1957

Frankie the Milkman poster
8.5

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

Frankie the Milkman

1956

The Beautiful Nuns poster
NR

A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.

The Beautiful Nuns

1955

No artwork available
NR

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage

1953

Fangs of Night poster
5.0

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.

Fangs of Night

1958

Onna to iu shiro: Mari no maki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Onna to iu shiro: Mari no maki

1953

Striving to Live poster
NR

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.

Striving to Live

1955

Onna to iu shiro: Yuko no maki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Onna to iu shiro: Yuko no maki

1953

Dancing Sisters poster
NR

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spends her days in ballet classes beautifying herself. The youngest of the three, Akiko is a bookworm who found her niche in philosophy. Although the sisters may appear to have nothing in common, there is one thing they all agree on; "Mom needs a new husband".

Dancing Sisters

1957

高校四年 poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

高校四年

1957

The Naked Woman and the Gun poster
7.0

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.

The Naked Woman and the Gun

1957

Dôkoku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dôkoku

1952

The Shadow of Fear poster
NR

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.

The Shadow of Fear

1956

Half Virgin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Half Virgin

1953

Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp poster
10.0

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut.

Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp

1956

Rikidozan: Man of Fury poster
NR

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

Rikidozan: Man of Fury

1955

No artwork available
NR

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests. Daikichi was a driver working for the East-West transportation company, and Rokuheita served as his assistant. The Daikichi truck, which was packed with luggage today, has left for its destination. And soon after Daikichi's truck left, Rokuheita heard a cat meowing from behind, so Daikichi stopped the car and turned to check the cargo, and there in a large basket he saw a crying baby...

Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

1956

Student Double Suicide poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Student Double Suicide

1954

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

東京午前三時

1958

No artwork available
NR

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

快傑耶茶坊

1956

Hirate Miki the Swordman poster
NR

The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming the hardship of life.

Hirate Miki the Swordman

1954