Nobuko Miyamoto — Actor (27)
Woman in Witness Protection (1997) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
マルタイの女
other title: マルタイの女 / La Femme de Marutai
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she prepares for her new role on the witness stand.
Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Women of the Prehistoric Planet
director: Arthur C. Pierce actor: Wendell Corey / Keith Larsen
other title: Le donne del pianeta preistorico / Die Welt des Frauenplaneten
A space ship crash lands on the third planet of a distant solar system, killing all hands except for a young boy named Tang. The rescue ship arrives some 20 years later. One of the crew, a girl named Linda meets Tang and falls in love with him. They are attacked by the native humanoids of the planet and many of them are killed off. Also, the crew encounters many strange beasts on this strange, but somewhat familiar world.
Kidnapping Blues (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
キッドナップ・ブルース
director: Shinpei Asai actor: Tamori / Mai Yamato
other title: キッドナップ・ブルース
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Confessions of an Opium Eater
director: Albert Zugsmith actor: Vincent Price / Linda Ho
other title: Confessioni di un fumatore d'oppio / Bekenntnisse eines Opiumsüchtigen
Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea (2024) [TV] TMDB
海に眠るダイヤモンド
director: Akiko Nogi actor: Ryunosuke Kamiki / Takumi Saitoh
other title: 海に眠るダイヤモンド
Set on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture during the coal industry's rise in 1955, this story follows themes of family, friendship, and love. It contrasts the post-war era, where people had little but were full of dreams, with present-day Tokyo, where abundance prevails, but young people struggle to find their dreams.
House of Ninjas (2024) [TV] TMDB
忍びの家 House of Ninjas
director: Dave Boyle actor: Kento Kaku / Yosuke Eguchi
other title: La última familia ninja
Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions to counteract a string of looming threats.
The Last Dance (1993) [Movie]
大病人
other title: La dernière danse / 大病人
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and – ultimately – acceptance.
A Taxing Woman (1987) [Movie]
マルサの女
other title: Die Steuerfahnderin / L'Inspectrice des impôts
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
あげまん
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Nobuko Miyamoto / Masahiko Tsugawa
other title: あげまん / La femme porte-bonheur
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
ミンボーの女
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Nobuko Miyamoto / Yasuo Daichi
other title: La donna contro il racket dell'estorsione / Die Kunst der Erpressung
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
Tampopo (1985) [Movie]
タンポポ
8.3 (11 ratings) director: Jūzō Itami actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Nobuko Miyamoto
other title: タンポポ
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Amachan (2013) [TV] TMDB
あまちゃん
actor: Mio Yuki / Non
other title: あまちゃん
Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is welcomed wholeheartedly by Natsu and the other locals. However, her mother Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) does not like the idea at first. She has a strained relationship with Natsu, and her extreme dislike of the sea, diving and the countryside is one of the reasons why she left her hometown 24 years ago. Eventually, she decides to stay in Sodegahama with Aki, considering that she is contemplating on getting a divorce anyway and does not want to go back to her husband in Tokyo. She also notices that it might be good for Aki for she seems livelier and happier in Kitasanriku than in Tokyo. The road towards becoming a full-fledged Ama-san is tough for Aki as she encounters tests and hurdles. One day, a video of her as an Ama gets uploaded in the city's tourism website, transforming an ordinary high school girl into an overnight Internet sensation. Suddenly she is called upon to use this opportunity to attract tourists to a city suffering from depopulation.