Yoshiko Sakuma

Acting

Yoshiko Sakuma

Born 1939-02-24 · Tokyo, Japan

Acting credits

Earthquake Bird poster
5.9

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.

Earthquake Bird

2019

Will to Conquer poster
NR

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration.

Will to Conquer

1970

The Makioka Sisters poster
7.4

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

The Makioka Sisters

1983

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma poster
6.6

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Seime Abe to write a work ...

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma

2011

Human Torpedoes poster
7.0

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Human Torpedoes

1968

Orders from Hell poster
7.0

After his home gets attacked by a rival gang, underworld boss Masamichi Omatsu finds himself in a tangle of familial and criminal obligations.

Orders from Hell

1964

Gang vs. G-Men poster
7.5

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Gang vs. G-Men

1962

G-Men in the Pacific poster
6.3

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

G-Men in the Pacific

1962

The House of Hanging poster
6.2

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.

The House of Hanging

1979

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow poster
6.4

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

1971

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers poster
10.0

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

1963

A House in the Quarter poster
6.4

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve Takamatsu, one of the brothel’s top customers. But while Takamatsu falls madly in love with Yuko, she finds herself attracted to a young priest named Kunugida. Torn by jealousy, Takamatsu hatches an evil plan to tear them apart.

A House in the Quarter

1963

Life of Hishakaku 3 poster
NR

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Life of Hishakaku 3

1964

Sky Scraper! poster
7.0

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

Sky Scraper!

1969

A Picture of Madame Yuki poster
NR

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the downfall of an old aristocratic family, this is the story of its last representant: Lady Yuki.

A Picture of Madame Yuki

1975

A Story from Echigo poster
7.2

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.

A Story from Echigo

1964

White Cliffs poster
NR

1960 Toei film.

White Cliffs

1960

Samurai Banners poster
7.4

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

Samurai Banners

1969

Duel of the Underworld poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Duel of the Underworld

1963

No artwork available
NR

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Tale of a Company Boss 3

1961

Tokyo's  Business District poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo's Business District

1962

The Bastards of Lawless Town poster
NR

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

The Bastards of Lawless Town

1959

Tale of Japanese Burglars poster
7.0

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Tale of Japanese Burglars

1965

My Destiny poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Destiny

1968