Junko Takazawa

Acting

Junko Takazawa

Born 1955-01-30 · Shibata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Confinement Escape: Beautiful Prey poster
7.0

Ryoko, a cosmetics saleswoman, accidentally runs over a man, who turns out to be a serial rapist who escaped from a prison transport vehicle. Held captive inside her car by the bloodied man, she seizes an opportunity to escape. Wandering through the forest, she arrives at a mountain cabin where she is rescued by another man. However, he harbors twisted sexual desires of his own. Once discovered, he imprisons Ryoko too...

Confinement Escape: Beautiful Prey

1993

Fireflies in the North poster
5.6

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.

Fireflies in the North

1984

Proof of the Man poster
7.8

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.

Proof of the Man

1977

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly poster
4.8

A young man has more on his hands than he can handle: a child he rarely sees, a runaway wife, and a young prostitute he has just met. The close-knit city of Tokyo brings them all together.

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

1979

To Trap a Kidnapper poster
7.7

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

To Trap a Kidnapper

1982

Hole in the Pants poster
6.0

A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut video release from Pantsu no ana, a subsection of "BOMB" magazine.

Hole in the Pants

1984

Death at an Old Mansion poster
6.3

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is up to an amateur detective to figure out what happened. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the clues in this locked room mystery.

Death at an Old Mansion

1975

Shadow of China poster
7.7

A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism.

Shadow of China

1990

Zodiac Killers poster
4.7

Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.

Zodiac Killers

1991

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident poster
3.7

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

1985

Raiden poster
8.0

Based on the comic book series by Tadashi Ichinose and Kyouta Kita.

Raiden

1994

The Drive poster
NR

Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort the cash. And when things start to go wrong, Rieko responds by murdering another girl and attempting another ransom scam..

The Drive

1992

Auto Town poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Auto Town

1981

Machi no Hi poster
8.0

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other.

Machi no Hi

1974

Apartment Wife: Serial Murders poster
NR

Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain man, and behind him lies a woman with a past...

Apartment Wife: Serial Murders

1986

Dioxin from Fish! poster
10.0

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

Dioxin from Fish!

1992

Virgin Story 2 poster
NR

A boy gets in over his head in a Kabukicho love triangle.

Virgin Story 2

1992

Kaibyō Koi-ga-fuchi poster
NR

The sisters lived near a pond called Koigafuchi, near Edo, and kept a father-and-son cat named Tama and Kaze. The elder sister, Oichi, was discovered by a samurai named Kazuma who rescued her when she had fallen ill, and she was sent to serve him at his mansion in Edo, but this was the beginning of her misfortune.

Kaibyō Koi-ga-fuchi

1987

MacArthur's Children—Part II poster
8.0

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as children.

MacArthur's Children—Part II

1987

No artwork available
NR

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

In the Realm of Death and Pleasure

1978