Kumiko Akiyoshi

Acting

Kumiko Akiyoshi

Born 1954-07-29 · Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Younger Sister poster
3.8

Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.

Younger Sister

1974

The Shootout poster
7.0

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...

The Shootout

1982

Toward the Terra poster
6.2

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

Toward the Terra

1980

The Perennial Weed poster
7.0

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.

The Perennial Weed

1975

Night Train poster
3.7

A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.

Night Train

1987

Taikoki poster
8.0

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.

Taikoki

1987

The Discarnates poster
6.6

A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past.

The Discarnates

1988

Flakes of Snow poster
7.3

A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment.

Flakes of Snow

1985

Deep River poster
7.3

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

Deep River

1995

To Trap a Kidnapper poster
7.7

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

To Trap a Kidnapper

1982

Translucent Tree poster
3.7

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

Translucent Tree

2004

Ameyuki-san poster
NR

This film focuses on the dramatic life of Waka Yamada, who rose from a prostitute in Seattle, USA to a female critic during the Taisho and Showa eras.

Ameyuki-san

1979

The Blue Light poster
7.4

Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.

The Blue Light

2003

Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama) poster
NR

The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled “Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu.” The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once affiliated with the biker team and band COOLS that was formed in the 1970s by Tachi Hiroshi (61) and Iwaki Koichi (60). The story for the film takes place at a technical high school in the 1970s, where it is said that half of the school’s 3,000 students are juvenile delinquents. Saito plays a student named Sendo, who is aiming to be number one out of all of them. Naturally, the movie will incorporate a lot of action scenes as he brawls his way to the top.

Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)

2012

Mount Hakkoda poster
6.6

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

Mount Hakkoda

1977

The Corporation poster
3.7

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.

The Corporation

1976

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe poster
9.0

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe

1999

Farewell to the Land poster
4.9

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.

Farewell to the Land

1982

The Enchantment poster
4.5

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...

The Enchantment

1989

The Intermission poster
7.0

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.

The Intermission

2013

Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle

2007

Lesson poster
4.0

The days of love between a free-spirited heroine who continues to seek freedom and a young man who is attracted to her charm. Starring Kumiko Akiyoshi.

Lesson

1994

Love Ghost poster
5.9

Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?

Love Ghost

2001

Family poster
6.8

Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four men.

Family

2023