Mieko Nishio

Acting

Mieko Nishio

Born

1947-07-11 (79)

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 18 titles

Black Tight Killers poster
6.8

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.

Black Tight Killers

1966

Why Are We Young? poster
NR

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.

Why Are We Young?

1965

Spirit of Youth poster
NR

Japanese youth film.

Spirit of Youth

1964

Song of Farewell poster
NR

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.

Song of Farewell

1965

Call My Black Dice poster
NR

The wandering gambler (Akira Kobayashi) once again picks up the dice he forswore in order to take revenge of the gangsters who exploit good citizens. The second installment in The Gambler series.

Call My Black Dice

1964

A Girl of the Plateau poster
8.0

Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is attracted to the beautiful young lady who is visiting the villa when he goes out to the town…

A Girl of the Plateau

1965

The Beautiful Teenager poster
NR

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

The Beautiful Teenager

1964

Flora on the Sand poster
6.3

One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…

Flora on the Sand

1964

The Start of Life poster
NR

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

The Start of Life

1965

Fountain of Love poster
NR

Five young men have many financial troubles, but this only brings them closer together.

Fountain of Love

1967

The Rule for a Vagabond poster
NR

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

The Rule for a Vagabond

1965

The Bride is Fifteen poster
NR

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual photographic portrait embody Nikkatsu’s 1960s youth-film aesthetic. Clean, hopeful, and pop-oriented. The large white title, handwritten for a softer impression, injects playful energy that contrasts with the strict vertical text blocks. As Japan’s youth culture blossomed after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, posters like this captured the spirit of romance and rebellion marketed to teenage audiences. The vivid color palette and carefree composition signal a stylistic shift from postwar black-and-white melodrama to the vibrant optimism of modern Technicolor cinema.

The Bride is Fifteen

1964

Kill the Night Rose poster
NR

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Kill the Night Rose

1966

Youth A Go Go! poster
NR

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

Youth A Go Go!

1966

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge poster
NR

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge

1964

The Dragon and the Tiger poster
7.0

A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of gambling. For when he is about to marry the daughter of a police official, the rival again interferes and this time it is a fight to the finish -- the end of his enemy.

The Dragon and the Tiger

1966

Dai nippon kosodoro den poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Dai nippon kosodoro den

1964

Boku dōshite namida ga deru no poster
NR

1965 Japanese movie

Boku dōshite namida ga deru no

1965

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