Hisako Manda

Acting

Hisako Manda

Born 1958-04-13 · Osaka, Japan

Acting credits

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters poster
7.8

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985

Ryakudatsu ai poster
4.5

The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.

Ryakudatsu ai

1991

Hi to Shio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hi to Shio

2009

Love Hotel poster
6.7

A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.

Love Hotel

1985

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen poster
6.2

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

2015

Night Train poster
3.7

A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.

Night Train

1987

Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition poster
NR

The live of the daimyo Date Masamune

Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition

1995

The 8-Tomb Village poster
6.8

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

The 8-Tomb Village

1996

Murder of the Inugami Clan poster
6.9

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.

Murder of the Inugami Clan

2006

Parasite Eve poster
5.6

A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.

Parasite Eve

1997

TANNKA poster
6.0

Kaori, a professional thirty-something caught between her passion for an older married man and the indulgence of an energetic, but less-fulfilling, youthful suitor.

TANNKA

2006

Pretty Girls 2 poster
NR

The team of femme fatales get together once again this time to take down a new enemy.

Pretty Girls 2

1991

Synchronicity poster
NR

Three strangers get a strange feeling that something is "calling them." Minor things about their daily lives begin to have significance to them. However, this change causes each of them to distance themselves from those around them.

Synchronicity

2011

Sakura Housara poster
NR

Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.

Sakura Housara

2014

The Setting Sun poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Setting Sun

2022

Uzumasa Limelight poster
6.8

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

Uzumasa Limelight

2014

Pretty Girls poster
NR

A ragtag team of pretty girls team together to fight an evil organization, in this low budget action packed film.

Pretty Girls

1991

Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin poster
NR

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin

1996

Return of the Champ poster
10.0

A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama to New York, where the former runs in the New York Marathon and romances TV producer Minagawa. A delightful throwback to Toho's '60s style filmmaking.

Return of the Champ

1981

Lifetime Insecurity poster
7.0

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

Lifetime Insecurity

1994

Hear the Sound of Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hear the Sound of Life

2006

Kyoto Yokai Map 6: A legend of love that transcends time and space and is revived at the Jidai Matsuri! A 1200-year-old beauty vs. a psychic detective poster
NR

Japanese horror movie from 1994.

Kyoto Yokai Map 6: A legend of love that transcends time and space and is revived at the Jidai Matsuri! A 1200-year-old beauty vs. a psychic detective

1994

The Girl in Glass poster
7.0

A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.

The Girl in Glass

1988

Firefly poster
3.7

A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his fingers like sand come back to him once again?

Firefly

1989