Nijiko Kiyokawa

Acting

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Born 1912-11-24 · Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Nijiko Kiyokawa was born on November 24, 1912 in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan as Hana Sekiguchi. She was an actress, known for Pom Poko (1994), and Das kleine Teehaus (1956). She died on May 24, 2002 in Takatsu, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

Acting credits

Pom Poko poster
7.2

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.

Pom Poko

1994

The Age of Lawless Moneymaking poster
NR

Contemporary comedy.

The Age of Lawless Moneymaking

1961

No artwork available
8.0

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Ichiyo Higuchi

1939

Vengeance Is Mine poster
7.6

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Vengeance Is Mine

1979

The Ballad of Narayama poster
7.5

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

The Lower Depths poster
7.1

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

The Lower Depths

1957

My Sweetheart poster
NR

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.

My Sweetheart

1967

Screwed poster
4.9

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Screwed

1998

Teenage Sazae poster
10.0

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Teenage Sazae

1957

Fall Guy poster
6.5

Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.

Fall Guy

1982

Twenty-Four Eyes poster
7.7

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.

Twenty-Four Eyes

1954

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife poster
NR

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3 poster
NR

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

1960

Japanese Women's Textbook poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Japanese Women's Textbook

1937

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris poster
7.4

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

1999

Flowers on the Trail poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flowers on the Trail

1957

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game poster
7.3

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and honor of the yakuza. This story takes place in the middle of the Meiji era in Nagoya. Oryu is wandering the country, training herself to reinstate her family name. With a written recommendation from Kumatora, she appears at the door of the Nishinomaru family. At the same time, the family is preparing for the gambling competition at the Netsuda Shrine Festival, which they have been hosting for generations. Meanwhile, the crooked Kinbara family is plotting to take over the competition. And now Oryu is forced to get involved in the struggle…

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

1969

Mappira shain yūkyōden poster
NR

1968 Japanese movie

Mappira shain yūkyōden

1968

Akitsu Hot Springs poster
6.5

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

The Jumping Magistrate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Jumping Magistrate

1952

The Teahouse of the August Moon poster
6.2

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

The Teahouse of the August Moon

1957

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

The Legend of the White Serpent poster
6.1

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

The Legend of the White Serpent

1956

The School Cap poster
NR

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.

The School Cap

1963