Ruriko Asaoka — Actor (62)
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I Hate But Love (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
憎いあンちくしょう
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Un type méprisable / 憎いあンちくしょう
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
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A Man with Dragon Tattoos (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
花と竜
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 花と竜
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyushu, an area where Yakuza thrived. His name is Kingoro Tamai (Yujiro Ishihara). With plans to travel the world, Kingoro worked diligently at a coal mine. His loyalty and hard work earned the respect of his peers, his courage won the heart of the beautiful Mon (Ruriko Asaoka), and his success evoked jealousy in his enemies.
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The Harbor of No Return (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
帰らざる波止場
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Ruriko Asaoka / Takashi Shimura …
other title: 帰らざる波止場
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, who is armed, Shiro accidentally shoots and kills her. The intruder knocks Shiro down and takes the drugs from Shiro's jacket. Shiro realizes that he was being used as a drag smuggler. He is sent to prison for three years for killing his girlfriiend. When he is released, he is determined to find out who set him up.
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In Tears (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
泣かせるぜ
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 泣かせるぜ
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.
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Man of a Stormy Era (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
昭和のいのち
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 昭和のいのち
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.
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Dice and Swords (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
遊侠三国志　鉄火の花道
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Hideki Takahashi …
other title: 遊侠三国志　鉄火の花道
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
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Red Handkerchief (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤いハンカチ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Le mouchoir rouge / 赤いハンカチ
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
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Alone Across the Pacific (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
太平洋ひとりぼっち
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Masayuki Mori …
other title: Seul sur l'océan pacifique / 太平洋ひとりぼっち …
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning, many unforeseen events will test his determination.
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
鷲と鷹
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 鷲と鷹 / Washi to taka …
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
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Asia-Pol (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
亚洲秘密警探
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Fang Ying / Jimmy Wang Yu …
other title: Mr. Kugelblitz schlägt zu / Asia-pol …
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives and destroying most of the shipment before it can be confiscated. In the process, Ming Xuan's partner is killed, and the young agent is brought to the unwelcome attention of the leader of the smuggling operation.
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Safari 5000 (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
栄光への５０００キロ
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 栄光への５０００キロ
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
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The Rambling Guitarist (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ギターを持った渡り鳥
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Joe Shishido …
other title: ギターを持った渡り鳥 / The Wandering Guitarist
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
告白的女優論
director: Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Mariko Okada / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Aveux, théories, actrices / 告白的女優論
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
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Shadow Hunters (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
影狩り
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 影狩り
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
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Incident at Blood Pass (1970) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
待ち伏せ
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yūjirō Ishihara …
other title: 待ち伏せ / Machibuse …
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
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Tokyo Mighty Guy (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
東京の暴れん坊
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 東京の暴れん坊 / The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
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The Boy Who Came Back (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
踏みはずした春
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Sachiko Hidari / Akira Kobayashi …
other title: 踏みはずした春 / Le Printemps a manqué son pas
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.