Kuniko Miyake — Actor (21)
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Island of Horrors (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
獄門島
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Ryutaro Otomo …
other title: 獄門島
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
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The Daring Nun (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
尼くずれ
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Michiyo Yasuda / Kayo Mikimoto …
other title: 尼くずれ
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
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On This Earth (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
地上
director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
まむしの兄弟　二人合わせて３０犯
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tamio Kawachi …
other title: まむしの兄弟　二人合わせて３０犯
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a respectable family. Comedy and melodrama ensue. A thrilling spectacle with an overly violent ending, and a remarkable, Japan's only post-prison rape comedy, Masa is determined to have sex with the female guard, despite the fact that there is a bar between them. Michi Azuma (topless swordswoman from Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril) plays a tomboy who wants to join her brothers.
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Poppy (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
虞美人草
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Yukichi Iwata / Kasuke Koizumi …
other title: Les Coquelicots / 虞美人草
Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
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Flame of My Love (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
わが恋は燃えぬ
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Mitsuko Mito …
other title: Il mio amore brucia / Flamme de mon amour …
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
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Battle of Roses (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
薔薇合戦
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Kuniko Miyake / Setsuko Wakayama …
other title: La Bataille de roses / Batalla de rosas …
Following the death of Mr Masago, his wife Satomi loses the family's cosmetics company to Mr Mogy due to huge amount of withdrawal debt caused by her husband. Mogy blackmails Satomi's sister Hinako into marrying him, so he will not send Masago to jail, and Satomi wrongly understands that Hinako is dating Mogy.
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Gan (1953) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
雁
director: 丰田四郎 actor: Hideko Takamine / 芥川比吕志 …
other title: 雁 / Wild Geese …
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.