Acting

Kyoko Mori

Born 1934-03-04 · Dalian, Liaoning, China

Acting credits

Seven Samurai poster
8.5

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Seven Samurai

1954

Destroy All Monsters poster
6.9

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

Destroy All Monsters

1968

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs poster
8.0

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1960

The Last War poster
6.8

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

The Last War

1961

Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu

1956

Invisible Man poster
6.7

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Invisible Man

1954

The Beast Shall Die poster
6.2

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.

The Beast Shall Die

1959

Anything For Success poster
7.0

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a foreign visitor by setting him up with a beautiful "model" (Tsukasa), actually a bar hostess, but the plan backfires when the would-be executive falls for the woman himself.

Anything For Success

1962

Beast Alley poster
7.0

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.

Beast Alley

1965

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant poster
7.0

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

1968

A Woman's Heart poster
NR

Married for almost a decade, a couple with a son have their life thrown for a loop when the wife Isoko comes across a photo of her university professor husband Asakichi with a younger woman named Terue, alongside a gift and a letter. When the husband is confronted he admits to merely loving his wife non-romantically, prompting her to take her son and leave the house. While she returns to her previous job and is staying at the company's dormitory, her husband is being visited by the other woman, who wants to tend to him, and his students.

A Woman's Heart

1959

The Blue Beast poster
8.0

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. His cold-blooded ascent eventually leads to moral decay as his past actions begin to catch up with him.

The Blue Beast

1960

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten

1962

Fright Time poster
NR

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns it’s the wrong Yamamoto, he still refuses to leave and threatens everyone with nitroglycerin. Tension peaks when the real detective’s wife arrives, but a quick intervention stops disaster, leaving the worker broken by loss.

Fright Time

1964

Fox and Raccoon poster
9.0

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and dream of a better future.

Fox and Raccoon

1959

Playboy President poster
10.0

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

Playboy President

1961

Fort Graveyard poster
6.1

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

Fort Graveyard

1965

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū

1962

My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men

1954

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa poster
9.0

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

1968

Whirlpool of Love poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Whirlpool of Love

1962

3 Gents In Hawaii poster
8.0

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and miscommunication. By the time they act, the property is lost to a rival, forcing an abrupt return to Tokyo and uncertain outcomes.

3 Gents In Hawaii

1963

All About Marriage poster
10.0

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

All About Marriage

1958

Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume

1955