Kaoru Yumi

Acting

Kaoru Yumi

Born

1950-11-12 (75)

Place of birth

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

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.

Known for

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

1977

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka poster
NR

A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problems and adult romance, and can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka

1978

Submersion of Japan poster
NR

In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan under the sea!

Submersion of Japan

1974

Japan Sinks poster
NR

Long-form adaptation of previous year's movie; due to a sudden tectonic shift, the country of Japan starts sinking.

Japan Sinks

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

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

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 12 titles

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

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

ESPY poster
5.4

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

ESPY

1974

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

Fairy Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fairy Beauty

1978

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 Shinano River poster
NR

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

The Shinano River

1973

Oshare daisakusen poster
10.0

1976 Japanese movie

Oshare daisakusen

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

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

The Instant Services Bureau poster
9.0

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.

The Instant Services Bureau

1971

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

1960s · 9 titles

Series credits

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

1977

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka poster
NR

A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problems and adult romance, and can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka

1978

Submersion of Japan poster
NR

In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan under the sea!

Submersion of Japan

1974

Japan Sinks poster
NR

Long-form adaptation of previous year's movie; due to a sudden tectonic shift, the country of Japan starts sinking.

Japan Sinks

1974

Mito Komon poster
10.0

A historic figure Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-shogun and retired daimyo of the Mito domain travels through Japan in the guise of Mitsuemon, a retired crêpe merchant from Echigo province, accompanied by his two samurai retainers, fun-loving Sasaki Sukesaburō (Suke-san) and studious Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kaku-san).

Mito Komon

1969

Miracle Girl poster
NR

Series about all-female private investigation agency.

Miracle Girl

1980

Flower Action Zero Zero Ninja poster
NR

It is a self-homage work based on the concept of changing all the main characters of Cyborg 009 , a cartoon drawn by Shotaro Ishinomori in 1964, to women.

Flower Action Zero Zero Ninja

1969

水戸黄門外伝 かげろう忍法帖 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

水戸黄門外伝 かげろう忍法帖

1995

かげろうお銀のお年寄りの交通安全 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

かげろうお銀のお年寄りの交通安全

2003