Acting
Asami Kobayashi
Born
1953-11-29 (72)
Place of birth
Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
5 titles
Toshiko Tanabe, better know by her stage name Asami Kobayashi, is a Japanese singer, model and actress that started her career as an idol while still at high school. She became very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly for her many hit songs, before retiring in 1991 to marry and focus on her family, eventually returning to show business in 2016.
Known for
5.8A Nietzschean journalist who covered the Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and other conflicts becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
The Beast to Die
1980
6.3Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
Call from Darkness
1981
NRThe film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.
Kōshoku biyōshi: Nikutai no hōshū
1979
4.5A building manager spots a hooded jogger as he brazenly assaults a woman and drags her off. He follows and watches as the poor woman gets raped. After the rapist has left the manager hesitates and approaches the prone woman… and takes his turn. The next day the manager is on the lookout for the jogger, waiting for another chance.
Renzoku boko: Hakuchu no inmu
1982
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Sixteen Years Old: Nymphets' Room
1977
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
5.8A Nietzschean journalist who covered the Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and other conflicts becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
The Beast to Die
1980
6.3Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
Call from Darkness
1981
4.5A building manager spots a hooded jogger as he brazenly assaults a woman and drags her off. He follows and watches as the poor woman gets raped. After the rapist has left the manager hesitates and approaches the prone woman… and takes his turn. The next day the manager is on the lookout for the jogger, waiting for another chance.
Renzoku boko: Hakuchu no inmu
1982