Acting

Mitsuyo Asaka

Born 1928-02-20 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

One of three female stars of post-war chanbara theatre (with Oe Michiko and Yoko Fuji)

Acting credits

New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion poster
5.4

Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.

New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

1976

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords poster
NR

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

1964

Beijing Watermelon poster
7.0

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.

Beijing Watermelon

1989

I Am Nipponjin poster
NR

A Japanese-American college student travels to her grandfather's beloved homeland to see and experience the "real Japan" she has so often read and heard about. Yet when she arrives she discovers that the Japan of her dreams is so much more different from what she expected and struggles to adapt to her newfound life there.

I Am Nipponjin

2006

やるぞみておれ為五郎 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

やるぞみておれ為五郎

1971

Fine, with Occasional Murders poster
7.3

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time being.

Fine, with Occasional Murders

1984

Life on the Longboard poster
8.0

A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.

Life on the Longboard

2005

Sachiko no sachi poster
NR

Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.

Sachiko no sachi

1976

Eagle of the Decotora 2: Aizu, Kitakata, and the Humanity Road! poster
NR

Second film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.

Eagle of the Decotora 2: Aizu, Kitakata, and the Humanity Road!

2004