Seiji Miyaguchi — Actor (47)
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A House in the Quarter (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
五番町夕霧楼
director: Tomotaka Tasaka actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Chōichirō Kawarasaki …
other title: 五番町夕霧楼
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve Takamatsu, one of the brothel’s top customers. But while Takamatsu falls madly in love with Yuko, she finds herself attracted to a young priest named Kunugida. Torn by jealousy, Takamatsu hatches an evil plan to tear them apart.
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The Story of Pure Love (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
純愛物語
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Shinjirō Ehara / Hitomi Nakahara …
other title: Un amour pur / 純愛物語 …
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
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The Underworld (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
暗黒街
director: Kajirō Yamamoto actor: Koji Tsuruta / Kyoko Aoyama …
other title: 暗黒街
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.
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Night Scandal in Japan (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
二匹の牝犬
director: Yūsuke Watanabe actor: Mayumi Ogawa / Mako Midori …
other title: Le calde amanti di Kyoto / Night Ladies …
The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her boyfriend. However, her plans are turned upside down by the arrival of her half-sister, and her boyfriends unfaithfulness.
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Our Happiness Alone (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
二十一歳の父
director: Noboru Nakamura actor: Homare Suguro / Kei Yamamoto …
other title: 二十一歳の父
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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Raised in a Palace (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
廓育ち
director: Junya Satō actor: Yoshiko Mita / Katsuo Nakamura …
other title: 廓育ち
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).
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Untamed Woman (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
あらくれ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Ken Uehara …
other title: Une femme indomptable / Una mujer indomable …
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
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Get 'em All (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
「みな殺しの歌」より　拳銃よさらば
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Hiroshi Mizuhara / Akemi Kita …
other title: 「みな殺しの歌」より　拳銃よさらば
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
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That Guy and I (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
あいつと私
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: あいつと私
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.