Kaoru Yumi

Acting

Kaoru Yumi

Born 1950-11-12 · Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Karou Yumi, is a Japanese actress. At age 12, Yumi joined the Nishino Ballet Group Talent Agency, and by age 16 she was acting in the TV program 11PM and the Nikkatsu production Extinguish The Night Rose. In 1974, Yumi landed a lead role in two of the most successful films that year: Prophecies of Nostradamus and ESPY, along with the television series for Submersion of Japan.

Acting credits

Prophecies of Nostradamus poster
5.7

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.

Prophecies of Nostradamus

1974

Kill the Night Rose poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kill the Night Rose

1966

ESPY poster
5.4

Two Japanese spies with extrasensory powers go to Istanbul to stop a global agenda of assassinations.

ESPY

1974

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat poster
10.0

The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

1976

Living Together poster
6.5

Two former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living together. With great care for their feelings, the two embark on a genuine love affair, expressed through their taboo and tension-filled cohabitation. Whilst hurting each other, they continue to explore the boundaries of their relationship in this boldly controversial film.

Living Together

1973

The Last Days of Planet Earth poster
NR

Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre events on which seem all too familiar to the French prophet Nostradamus's predictions.

The Last Days of Planet Earth

1981

The Phoenix poster
6.1

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.

The Phoenix

1978

Kurama Tengu no Otoshiyori no Kotsu Anzen poster
NR

Jun Hashizume and Goro Ibuki appear in this traffic historical drama that will allow the elderly to reconfirm traffic safety. From an accident that occurs in the town of Kyo at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate while talking with the Shinsengumi and the party, knowledge and traffic rules necessary for the elderly to avoid traffic accidents can be learned.

Kurama Tengu no Otoshiyori no Kotsu Anzen

2002

Miniskirt Corps poster
NR

Five female university students, Katsumi (Katsuko Kanai), Kaoru (Kaoru Yumi), Itsuko (Itoko Harada), Namiko (Etsuko Nami), and Yukigi (Sanae Emi), are all residents of the same Seiwa Dormitory. One night, three close friends, Namiko, Itsuko, and Kaoru, sneak out of the dormitory, avoiding the watchful eyes of their roommate, Katsumi, and the dormitory supervisor, Ms. Aikawa (Yuriko Hime), and head out to a go-go café. Like young girls, they are hoping to find their ideal man.

Miniskirt Corps

1968

The Ninja Vixens II: Veil of Illusions poster
NR

Kagero, the leader of the female ninja serving Kasuga no Tsubone in the Ōoku, rescues a young woman who is being attacked by samurai. This incident leads to the discovery of a smuggling scandal in the Echizen Maruoka Domain. Without hesitation, Kagero and the female ninjas set out for Maruoka to investigate and take action.

The Ninja Vixens II: Veil of Illusions

1990

Fairy Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fairy Beauty

1978

The Shinano River poster
NR

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

The Shinano River

1973

The Instant Services Bureau poster
9.0

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.

The Instant Services Bureau

1971

The Tide Does Not Return poster
NR

Reiji and Takashi, although they are brothers, differ from each other like fire and water - Reiji is an empath, and Takashi will use anybody, to get as far up the social ladder as possible. Soon, Takashi dumps his girlfriend Mie to marry the daughter of a certain businessman. Disgusted with this fact, Reiji starts helping the girl. He's even more indignant when he discovers that Mie is terminally ill. From now on, he does everything to make Mie's last days as good as possible, and repay the family, which humiliated woman so much.

The Tide Does Not Return

1969

Shogun's Harem: The Mansion of Evil Spirits poster
5.0

In the era of the ninth shogun, Ieshige, the Ooku of Edo Castle was a world of only women, with Tokiwa at the head and numbering up to a thousand. The town girl Otoshi catches the eye of Oitsu-no-kata and is brought into the Ooku. Oitsu receives the favor of Ieshige and is blessed with an heir, but Oko-no-kata resents Oitsu to the point of wanting to curse her to death. At that time, rumors of an evil spirit in the unopened room spread throughout the Ooku.

Shogun's Harem: The Mansion of Evil Spirits

1981

Skyscraper Murder Case poster
1.0

Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control of the hotel, blackmail and jealousy. The principals involved are two business partners, a political string puller and his son, lovers carrying on an illicit affair and a secretary turned blackmailer.

Skyscraper Murder Case

1976

The Stormy Man poster
9.0

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

The Stormy Man

1966

Under the Stars of Singapore poster
NR

1967 Japanese movie

Under the Stars of Singapore

1967

The Vampire Inspector poster
NR

During the reign of the 11th Shogun, a series of supernatural incidents occur every night in the Edo Castle. A beautiful inspector appears with thunder and lightning to suck people’s blood and kill them. The examiner’s true identity is Amakusa Shiro, a young samurai from the Amakusa clan that was destroyed by the harsh Christian persecution of the Shogunate. Shirō sold his soul to the devil and became an evil spirit. After 160 years since destruction of Amakusa, his revenge to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate begins.

The Vampire Inspector

1982

No artwork available
NR

One night, a passenger car driven by Kyoko hit and killed a woman. Her husband, Dr. Nogami, who was a passenger in the car, hid the body in the grass and they returned home. Soon after, an autopsy by the police revealed the identity of the woman. A few days later, the woman's lover, Ueda, calls Nogami demanding that he keep quiet.

The primary colored butterfly was watching - the smell of death

1978

Oshare daisakusen poster
10.0

1976 Japanese movie

Oshare daisakusen

1976

No artwork available
NR

A documentary about the 1974 film Prophecies of Nostradamus, released to coincide with the latter's release. It featured several prophets and experts on meteorology and food ecology giving their respective takes on the 1999 apocalypse which Nostradamus predicted. Performers Hiroshi Itsuki, Shizue Abe and Linda Yamamoto appeared as well as the film's stars, Tetsuro Tanba, Yoko Tsukasa, Toshio Kurosawa and Yumi Kaoru.

Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus

1974

Lemon Girls on the Go poster
NR

Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.

Lemon Girls on the Go

1967

The Rose Colored Two poster
NR

The film is based on the theme song of the same name sung by Hashi Yukio.

The Rose Colored Two

1967