Ikuko Kimuro

Acting

Ikuko Kimuro

Born 1935-11-10 · Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Forever a Woman poster
7.6

Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In her final stages, Fumiko meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her experiences.

Forever a Woman

1955

高校四年 poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

高校四年

1957

Youth of the Beast poster
7.0

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Youth of the Beast

1963

Wind and waves of the South poster
NR

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...

Wind and waves of the South

1961

The Temptress and the Monk poster
8.0

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.

The Temptress and the Monk

1957

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai

1963

The Cards Will Tell poster
NR

A 1960 crime film

The Cards Will Tell

1960

Birth of a Jazz Maiden poster
NR

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

1957

City Boys, City Girls poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

City Boys, City Girls

1958

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

Kitakami Nocturne poster
NR

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...

Kitakami Nocturne

1961

Hitotsu no inochi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Hitotsu no inochi

1962

Ama Reef poster
NR

1958 Japanese movie

Ama Reef

1958

Inn of the Floating Weeds poster
8.0

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

Inn of the Floating Weeds

1957

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

The Happy Dancers

1956

Gyakukōsen poster
NR

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has a boyfriend.

Gyakukōsen

1956

A Hole of My Own Making poster
8.0

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.

A Hole of My Own Making

1955

Harbor Rats poster
9.0

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews caused an uprising. A manager of stevedore ordered his employee leader to suppress an uprising...

Harbor Rats

1957

Shōnen shikeishū poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shōnen shikeishū

1955

The Sky Is Mine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sky Is Mine

1959

Breasts and Bullets poster
NR

Japanese crime film

Breasts and Bullets

1958

Joshiryōsai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Joshiryōsai

1957

Jigoku no hatoba poster
NR

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on the quay while his assistant Shinsuke is away.

Jigoku no hatoba

1956