Acting

Mineko Yorozuyo

Born

1919-06-28 (107)

Place of birth

Ishikawa. Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

After graduating from Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School, he joined the Takarazuka Girls Opera Company (now Takarazuka Revue). After leaving Takarazuka Revue, he played a supporting role mainly in movies , stages and TV dramas . Received the 9th Arts Festival Award Encouragement Award.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 13 titles

A Wanderer's Notebook poster
7.2

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

A Wanderer's Notebook

1962

The Temple of Wild Geese poster
6.5

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.

The Temple of Wild Geese

1962

A Young Master Fights Bravely poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Young Master Fights Bravely

1960

Snow Country poster
6.7

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Snow Country

1965

A Good Man, A Good Day poster
NR

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.

A Good Man, A Good Day

1961

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

1962

River Washes Away the Moon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

River Washes Away the Moon

1963

Modern Gentleman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Modern Gentleman

1964

Heso no taisho poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Heso no taisho

1962

23 Steps to Bed poster
7.0

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.

23 Steps to Bed

1962

The Tragedy of a Young Warrior poster
NR

Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu. Shuntaro Amano (Yukio Hashi) entered the school after going through numerous trials and tribulations, and quickly became known for his outstanding talent. Some time after Shuntaro's admission to school, the daughter of director Shiho (Eriko Sanjo) returns from a trip to Tokyo. Shiho is attracted to the intelligent and caring Shuntaro, and soon they fall in love with each other. However, their feelings for each other are futile, and soon Shiho and Shuntaro find themselves in the vortex of time...

The Tragedy of a Young Warrior

1962

Maiko-han poster
NR

Komichi (Chieko Baisho), a maiko in Gion, reunites with her elementary school classmate Takao Segawa (Yukio Hashi) for the first time in eight years, and the two quickly grow close.

Maiko-han

1963

Big Wind from Tokyo poster
7.0

A TV writer and a director stranded in a rural town witness the young villagers’ tangled romances. Despite parental feuds and arranged marriages, true couples find their way together. The writer grows fond of the town before returning to Tokyo.

Big Wind from Tokyo

1966

1950s · 16 titles

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women poster
6.7

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

1956

Undercurrent poster
6.2

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Undercurrent

1956

The Bride from Japan poster
9.0

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

The Bride from Japan

1959

Geisha in the Old City poster
10.0

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.

Geisha in the Old City

1957

Marital Relations poster
5.6

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.

Marital Relations

1955

Fancy Talker poster
NR

Comedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the car in a bribe.

Fancy Talker

1958

Snow Country poster
6.7

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?

Snow Country

1957

The Love Letter Trial poster
NR

This story takes place at a school under the new educational system. It all began when a love letter addressed to Takeshi Kodama, the straightforward art teacher, from Yoko Kagawa, a young and beautiful female teacher, was found lying in the school hallway. It soon became clear that Ms. Kagawa was not the one who had written the letter, but this incident made her feel the need to explore the emotions of her adolescent female students.

The Love Letter Trial

1951

An Osaka Story poster
6.0

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

An Osaka Story

1957

No artwork available
9.0

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Evening Calm

1957

Sound in the Mist poster
7.5

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...

Sound in the Mist

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tsukiyo no aho dori

1956

Lord Nobunaga's Early Days poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Lord Nobunaga's Early Days

1959

Sisters of Gion poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sisters of Gion

1956

Even The Mighty Shed Tears poster
10.0

After Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to seek revenge. Years later, Ryusaku is a skilled martial artist preparing for an inter-school match, but his past resurfaces when Katsuko, now involved with the gang, brings tragedy. In a final confrontation, Ryusaku faces the gang and finds redemption through his karate, with the support of his friends.

Even The Mighty Shed Tears

1953

Love of the Princess poster
8.0

A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.

Love of the Princess

1957