Sumiko Sakamoto

Acting

Sumiko Sakamoto

Born 1936-11-25 · Osaka, Japan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sumiko Sakamoto was born on November 26, 1936 in Osaka, Japan. Sakamoto is a singer and award-winning actress whose heartfelt performances made her a favorite of the late film director Shohei Imamura. Imamura cast her in three of his films, among them "The Ballad of Narayama," winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, in which her brilliant portrayal of an elderly mother not only earned her a kiss from Orson Welles, but also the Japanese Best Actress Award from Nihon Academy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sumiko Sakamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Ballad of Narayama poster
7.5

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge poster
6.6

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

2001

Return of Gun Dog poster
6.2

Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.

Return of Gun Dog

1966

The Pornographers poster
7.2

A former Buddhist monk turned erotic filmmaker, Subuyan lives with hairdresser Haru and her two teenage children. Shooting two skin flicks per day, he somehow manages to stay out of the clutches of the yakuza, but real trouble starts when Haru discovers him lusting after her daughter.

The Pornographers

1966

The Stairway to the Distant Past poster
7.2

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

The Stairway to the Distant Past

1995

Sometimes... Like a Prostitute poster
4.9

A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he brings her home.

Sometimes... Like a Prostitute

1978

Fearless Comrades poster
NR

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. The guitar he plays at the bar in the evening was given to him by his late best friend. At the bar, Kosuke meets Kumagoro. Kosuke saves Kumagoro from bandits. Kumagoro is a funny man, he came to this city to reunite with the woman he swore to marry. Kosuke decides to settle in this city and help him find his beloved, but the future of this city is not cloudless either, because the cruel Yakuza is in power in the city, and soon Kosuke will have to fight with him...

Fearless Comrades

1966

Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin poster
NR

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin

1996

The Buried Forest poster
6.6

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.

The Buried Forest

2005

Homeless Dog poster
7.0

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Homeless Dog

1964

No artwork available
8.0

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.

The Call of Flesh

1964

My Father's Dragon poster
7.5

Elmer is told by a traveling cat about a baby dragon who is being held captive and mistreated on the scary Wild Island. Elmer decides to investigate and battles tigers, crocodiles and gorillas in order to rescue the little dragon.

My Father's Dragon

1997

Trigger Happy Romeo poster
7.5

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

Trigger Happy Romeo

1965

Silence Has No Wings poster
6.9

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.

Silence Has No Wings

1966

The Silent Gun poster
7.5

A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.

The Silent Gun

1967

The Shogun and His Mistresses poster
4.7

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

The Shogun and His Mistresses

1967

Quick-Draw Dog poster
7.5

Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.

Quick-Draw Dog

1967

Escape from Japan poster
5.7

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.

Escape from Japan

1964

No artwork available
NR

Adventures of a young high school teacher and his oddball students.

Be Free!

1986

Clamouring Canines poster
8.5

The second film in the "Inu" series.

Clamouring Canines

1964

Rampaging Dog poster
7.0

Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.

Rampaging Dog

1965

Tenamonya Sandogasa poster
NR

The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jirocho of Shimizu and becoming the strongest in Japan. Tokijiro is a fallen yakuza who is trying to make his mark by heading for Shimizu Port with his partner, Chinen.

Tenamonya Sandogasa

1963

Legends of Honor poster
9.0

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

Legends of Honor

1963

Travel with Ghost poster
NR

Ghost comedy film.

Travel with Ghost

1961