Masayo Utsunomiya

Acting

Masayo Utsunomiya

Born 1948-03-06 · Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan

Acting credits

Irezumi poster
5.7

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.

Irezumi

1982

The Bullet Train poster
6.9

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.

The Bullet Train

1975

The Gate of Youth Part 2 poster
7.5

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

The Gate of Youth Part 2

1977

No artwork available
NR

During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time the man and woman fall in love, but the woman disappears. 30 years later, the woman keeps her past a secret and worries that her daughter Mie Matsuki (Rina Uchiyama) may pursue her Korean roots. One day, Mie who already has a fine boyfriend, introduces her mother to a Korean man named Yoo Jung-Bae (Kim Eung-Soo). Yoo Jung-Bae is the man that her mother fell in love with 30 years ago during the Gwangju uprising. During his college days, Yoo Jung-Bae was the leader of the student activist movement. Now he is transferred to an investment company in Tokyo. Mie works at the same investment company. Feeling a bond with Mie, Yoo Jung-Bae walks the streets of Tokyo with Mie every weekend and begins to learn about each other.

Tooku no Sora

2010

Wish Upon a Star poster
NR

Japanese TV film

Wish Upon a Star

2005

Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano poster
NR

Kaori, a doll hairdresser, is a demonic woman who has been alive for over 900 years. She has maintained her youth by drinking the blood of young men while waiting for her husband, who disappeared shortly after their wedding. However, when Kinosaki, who looks exactly like her husband, uncovers her true identity, Kaori transforms into a terrifying figure.

Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano

1980

Dangerous Liaisons poster
3.7

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.

Dangerous Liaisons

1978

金融腐蝕列島 再生 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

金融腐蝕列島 再生

2002

The Shogun's Vault I poster
NR

Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold storehouse to avenge the death of his father, who died a violent death at a gold mine on Sado Island. With the help of Hanji, a playboy who took care of him in prison, as his partner, Tomizo decides on the night of fireworks to be held in Edo Castle as the day to carry out his plan. Kanpei, a wise man, is suspicious of the plan.

The Shogun's Vault I

1981

After School poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

After School

1973

Kyoto Yokai Map 2: A 400-Year-Old Ice Woman Living on Kirara Slope poster
NR

The frozen corpse of a young apprentice monk is found near Kirara Hill in Rakuhoku. Detective Hayakawa from the Kyoto Prefectural Police grows suspicious of the fact that someone froze to death in the middle of summer and visits his nephew Saburo, who works at a cryogenics research institute. Shortly after, the frozen body of Saburo’s father, Takayoshi, is also discovered. Recently, Takayoshi had been closely involved with a designer named Saori.

Kyoto Yokai Map 2: A 400-Year-Old Ice Woman Living on Kirara Slope

1981

Red Scorpion Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Red Scorpion Beauty

1979

Non-ko poster
6.3

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”

Non-ko

2008

The River of the Stranger poster
NR

A rare film about the Zainichi and the relations between Japan and South Korea. It is the first feature film ever directed by a zainichi director to explore these issues.

The River of the Stranger

1975

No artwork available
NR

Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...

Kyotaro Nishimura Special: Murder on the ‘Traveling Go’ around Japan.

2003

本日ただいま誕生 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

本日ただいま誕生

1979

Sunday Horror Series Best Selection poster
NR

Japanese horror anthology of 3 terrifying tales.

Sunday Horror Series Best Selection

2019

Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell poster
NR

Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his child’s medical treatment. Five years later, he is allowed to enter Edo with a fresh start. He make ends meet by selling toys. One day, he meets Otoki, a woman who is a lookalike of his late wife and who is being pursued by a mysterious man.

Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell

1981

No artwork available
NR

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

Botchan

1977

Woman Mandala poster
NR

A husband with a mistress learns that his wife, whom he had envied, is pregnant and begins to want to kill her.

Woman Mandala

1978