Yumi Shirakawa — Actor (22)
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Challenge to Live (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛と炎と
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: 愛と炎と
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
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Romance Express (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
特急にっぽん
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Reiko Dan …
other title: 特急にっぽん
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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A Man in Red (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
真紅の男
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Makoto Satō / Akira Kubo …
other title: 真紅の男 / A Man In Red
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.
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Trap of Suicide Kilometer (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
国際秘密警察 虎の牙
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: 国際秘密警察 虎の牙 / International Secret Police: Tiger's Fang
Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who called himself a salesman and met with Klima, acts as his bodyguard. However, Kitami learns that a large number of industrial cylinders unrelated to dam construction have been purchased, and Klima secretly confined her secretary, a former army colonel, and threatened to produce poisonous gas. Klima packed the gas in a cylinder and sent it to Alabanda in an attempt to cause a civil war between the government and the tribes. Around that time, Klima secretly investigated Kitami's identity and learned that he was a secret agent.
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The Lovelorn Geisha (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
夜の流れ
director: Mikio Naruse / Yūzō Kawashima actor: Yōko Tsukasa / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Courant du soir / Corriente nocturna …
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.
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Gorath (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
妖星ゴラス
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: Ufos zerstören die Erde / Le Choc des planètes …
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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The Beast Shall Die (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
野獣死すべし
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: 野獣死すべし
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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The Mysterians (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
地球防衛軍
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: I misteriani / Os Bárbaros Invadem a Terra …
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
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Rodan (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
空の大怪獸 ラドン
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: Rodan il mostro alato / Rodan, o Monstro do Espaço …
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
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境遇 (2011) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
director: 若松節朗 actor: 松雪泰子 / りょう …
正在竞选议员的高仓正纪（沢村一樹 饰）与绘本作家阳子（松雪泰子 饰）是一对恩爱夫妇。阳子不久前根据当年与之同在孤儿院长大的好友相田晴美（りょう 饰）的亲身创作了绘本《天蓝丝带》，由此赢得广泛关注，同时正纪的政治生涯也进入最关键的时刻。恰在此时，夫妻俩的孩子裕太遭人绑架，犯人发来传真，要求他们公布事实真相。阳子原本因为出身便不为夫家及后援会的负责人所喜爱，如今更处于孤立的状态。万般无奈之下，她只得求助于晴美协助寻找儿子的下落。而在这一过程中，一起沉疴已35年的杀人案悄悄浮上了水面……
本片根据凑佳苗的同名原著改编。
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Yearning (1964) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
乱れる
9.4 (5 ratings) director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: Tormento / Midareru - Sehnsucht …
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
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The End of Summer (1961) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
小早川家の秋
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Setsuko Hara / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: L'autunno della famiglia Kohayagawa / 小早川家の秋 …
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
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Chûshingura (1962) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Adventure in Kigan Castle (1966) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
奇巌城の冒険
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Mihashi …
other title: Le avventure di Takla Tan / Les Aventures de Takla Makan …
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.