
Acting
Yoshie Shimamura
Born 1956-06-29 · Hiroshima, Japan
Acting credits
7.2Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and cold. As his isolation from society becomes unbearable, he suddenly finds himself on a train heading far away from his miserable home. Accompanied by Campanella, an acquaintance from school, Giovanni embarks on a journey that will define the rest of his life.
Night on the Galactic Railroad
1985
7.6A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Barefoot Gen
1983
5.5A jewelry broker is killed and a large amount of money is stolen. A female detective from the Metropolitan Police Department transforms into a geisha to catch the criminal.
The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
1987
6.8Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Barefoot Gen 2
1986
6.7Struggling with money, violence and social pressure, a couple of youngsters are drawn to dangerous games of death.
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
6.8The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
1976
8.2After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.
The Life of Chikuzan
1977
8.3Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.
Double Suicide at Nishijin
1977
NRAn office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.
Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
1983
A wife remarries after her doctor husband dies in a stormy lake, but is distressed when he appears in her dreams every night.
Evidence of the Devil
1986