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トイレット部長 (1961)
Character: N/A
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
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川の流れのように (2000)
Character: Yuriko Hirosawa (The Authoress)
2000 live-action Japanese film.
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喜劇駅前温泉 (1962)
Character: N/A
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.
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妾二十一人 ど助平一代 (1969)
Character: N/A
Teppei Omori is a man of extraordinary virility, with 21 mistresses, over 30 children, and more than 1,100 women he has had relations with. Teppei's daily routine involves visiting each of the beef hot pot restaurants, "Akasatana," run by his mistresses, to collect the sales and keep an eye on the women. One day, Noe, one of his mistresses at the first branch, announces that she wants to marry Urakawa, the chef. The other mistresses, in the prime of their lives, can no longer be content with working for him only once a month, and they compete for Teppei's attention, cheating on him behind his back.
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丼池 (1963)
Character: Masa Kanazawa
In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a world driven by debt, greed, and ambition. As rival lenders and business owners compete to take control of a struggling textile company, Katsumi becomes caught in a web of financial schemes, betrayals, and personal loyalties. What begins as a ruthless climb to power gradually turns into a fight to survive the consequences of the world she helped create.
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暖春 (1965)
Character: Sei Sasaki
Chizuru, the beautiful daughter of a Kyoto restaurant owner, feels trapped by the marriage plans her mother has arranged for her. When an older university professor and longtime admirer of her mother invites her to Tokyo, she sees it as a chance to escape her traditional life. In the city, Chizuru is drawn to a sophisticated businessman and begins searching for independence, romance, and her own identity while uncovering unsettling truths about her family and the people around her.
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爽春 (1968)
Character: Kiku Kigawa
After marrying off one daughter, a widowed father struggles with loneliness and the changing lives of his children. While his younger daughter falls in love with a charming but controversial man, his older daughter remains emotionally tied to a former lover who has since married. As tensions over marriage, independence, and family expectations grow, the family is forced to confront the gap between traditional values and modern relationships in postwar Japan.
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惜春 (1967)
Character: Hatsu
When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.
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めぐりあい (1968)
Character: N/A
Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
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嘘 (1963)
Character: N/A
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
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女が愛して憎むとき (1963)
Character: Rie Uchimi
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.
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若者よ挑戦せよ (1968)
Character: Fujiko Namikawa
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.
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大根と人参 (1965)
Character: N/A
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
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台所太平記 (1963)
Character: N/A
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
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コント55号 世紀の大弱点 (1968)
Character: 文学者
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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喜劇 駅前団地 (1961)
Character: Kame Gonda
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
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喜劇 駅前飯店 (1962)
Character: N/A
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.
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颱風とざくろ (1967)
Character: Naoko Takada
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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冷飯とおさんとちゃん (1965)
Character: N/A
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
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怪猫 謎の三味線 (1938)
Character: Onui, younger sister of Okiyo
Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously murders two other objects of his affection: Okiyo, a young woman from a samurai family, and Kuro, a cat. The spirits of Okiyo and Kuro then merge into a vengeful ghost.
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誰のために愛するか (1971)
Character: N/A
The story is about Tomoko and her relationships with three men.
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もののけ姫 (1997)
Character: Mrs. Hii (voice)
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
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氷点 (1966)
Character: Tatsuko
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child.
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千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語 (2001)
Character: N/A
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.
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乱れ雲 (1967)
Character: Katsuko
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
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映画女優 (1987)
Character: Mother
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
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忍ばずの女 (1994)
Character: Taki
Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant with the child of Hiroshi, the son of an large company's president, who tells her to wait for marriage until he returns from Germany in 3 years.
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その場所に女ありて (1962)
Character: Miyo Sagawa
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
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