Kaoru Yachigusa — Actor (28)
Snow Country (1957) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
雪国
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Keiko Kishi
other title: Pays de la neige / 雪国
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
The Living Koheiji (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
生きている小平次
director: Nobuo Aoyagi actor: Senjaku Nakamura / Kaoru Yachigusa
other title: 生きている小平次 / Ikiteiru Koheiji
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
Temptation on Glamour Island (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
グラマ島の誘惑
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Hisaya Morishige / Frankie Sakai
other title: グラマ島の誘惑
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
美しさと哀しみと
other title: L'amaro giardino di Lesbo / Tristesse et Beauté
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager — and then wrote a bestselling novel about it — reappears in her life, her pupil — and lesbian lover — hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
Blood Type: Blue (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ブルークリスマス
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroshi Katsuno / Keiko Takeshita
other title: Blue Christmas / ブルークリスマス
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
The Human Vapor (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ガス人間第一号
other title: Una nube di terrore / ガス人間第一号
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's most wanted criminal, can authorities stop him?
The Barren Zone (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
不毛地帯
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Tetsuro Tamba
other title: The Corporation / 不毛地帯
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.
Love That Makes You Cry (2016) [TV] TMDB
いつかこの恋を思い出してきっと泣いてしまう
actor: Kasumi Arimura / Kengo Kora
other title: いつかこの恋を思い出してきっと泣いてしまう
Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the big city of Tokyo, each with their own dreams and aspirations. Among them is Sugihara Oto and Soda Ren. After her mother died, Oto was raised by adoptive parents in Hokkaido. Although she has given up on having any high hopes or big dreams for her future, she still remains positive and faces life with optimistic attitude. One day, she finds out the fact that her adoptive parents are planning to marry her to the wealthy man in town in order to solve their financial debt. Soda Ren was raised by his grandfather in Fukushima. Ren works hard on one job after another in order to earn the money to buy back his grandfather's land so that they can start farming again. By chance, Oto and Ren meet in Hokkaido and they decide to move to Tokyo to find new life to change their fate and future. However, as soon as they arrive Tokyo, they get separated in the crowds...
Ashura no Gotoku (1979) [TV] TMDB
阿修羅のごとく
director: Kuniko Mukoda actor: Kaoru Yachigusa / Ayumi Ishida
other title: 阿修羅のごとく
Kuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that secretly swirl behind seemingly peaceful family relationships.
Like Asura (2003) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
阿修羅のごとく
director: Yoshimitsu Morita actor: Shinobu Otake / Hitomi Kuroki
other title: 阿修羅のごとく
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.
Toad's Oil (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ガマの油
director: Koji Yakusho actor: Koji Yakusho / Eita Nagayama
other title: ガマの油
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow find a way to benefit spiritually from the experience.
The Betrayal (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
大殺陣 雄呂血
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kaoru Yachigusa
other title: 大殺陣 雄呂血
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a ronin, if not hunted down and killed.
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta
other title: Samurai 2 - Duello al tempio Ichijoji / Duel à Ichijôji
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta
other title: Samurai 3 - Duello sull'isola Ganryu / Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
忍びの者 伊賀屋敷
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kaoru Yachigusa
other title: 忍びの者 伊賀屋敷 / Shinobi No Mono 6 The Last Iga Spy
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.
Dear Doctor (2009) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
ディア・ドクター
director: Miwa Nishikawa actor: Eita Nagayama / Tsurube Shofukutei
other title: Dear doctor / ディア・ドクター
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.
Into the White Night (2006) [TV] TMDB IMDb
白夜行
director: Keigo Higashino actor: Takayuki Yamada / Haruka Ayase
other title: 白夜行 / White Night
What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the sun once more, Ryouji and Yukiho find themselves in a twisted web from which neither can escape without abandoning the other. Having no one but each other, this drama follows the events the follow that fateful day… 14 years ago.
Red Suspicion (1975) [TV] TMDB
赤い疑惑
actor: Momoe Yamaguchi / Tomokazu Miura
other title: 赤い疑惑
Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her boyfriend is really her half brother.