Yūko Hamada

Acting

Yūko Hamada

Born 1939-03-20 · Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades poster
7.1

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

1972

Elegant Beast poster
7.3

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

Elegant Beast

1962

The Demon of Mount Oe poster
6.5

A band of warriors journeys to Mount Oe to rescue abducted women from a demon, overcoming supernatural threats like a giant spider and a diabolical witch along the way.

The Demon of Mount Oe

1960

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch poster
6.8

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch

1968

Gamera vs. Guiron poster
5.3

Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.

Gamera vs. Guiron

1969

Zatoichi the Outlaw poster
6.7

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Zatoichi the Outlaw

1967

The Pledge poster
5.8

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.

The Pledge

1972

Sentimental Mobsters poster
7.0

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!

Sentimental Mobsters

1963

The Night before Pearl Harbor poster
9.5

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.

The Night before Pearl Harbor

1968

Last-Ditch Glory poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Last-Ditch Glory

1961

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing poster
6.2

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing

1964

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend

1967

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure poster
5.8

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

1964

Medal from the Devil poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Medal from the Devil

1967

No artwork available
NR

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi

1968

Girls Born in August poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Girls Born in August

1963

The Silent Gun poster
7.5

A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.

The Silent Gun

1967

Mission Accomplished poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mission Accomplished

1960

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree poster
8.0

Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

1959

The Notorious Man's Return poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Notorious Man's Return

1962

High School Third Graders poster
NR

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.

High School Third Graders

1963

A Design for Dying poster
6.5

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.

A Design for Dying

1961

Black Weapon poster
NR

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

Black Weapon

1964

The Last Loyalty Offering poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Last Loyalty Offering

1967