Keiko Koyanagi

AKA:
0.684

1926-02-07

Mukden, Manchuria (now Shenyang, Liaoning province, China)

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {53}

1951-09-07 7

Story of a Beloved Wife

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his ea ...
Genre :Drama

1958-06-15 7

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt ...
Genre :Horror

1956-03-28 0

Asataro the Crow

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi. ...
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Okaya

1954-11-23 7.745

Chikamatsu Monogatari

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1962-02-21 0

Teppo Yasu no Shogai

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1957-12-15 5.4

Freelance Samurai

One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy. ...
Genre :Action

Ôkubi

1968-03-20 6.548

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 1 ...
Genre :Horror

Maid of Kashiwaya

1962-02-21 7

Her Hidden Past

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1966-11-09 0

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

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1971-10-16 0

Hiding-Place in the Storm

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1986-01-15 7

Gonza the Spearman

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to c ...
Genre :Drama

1962-06-24 0

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been li ...
Genre :Horror

1960-04-14 7

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1951-01-13 6.5

Clothes of Deception

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board. ...
Genre :Drama

1969-07-26 0

Girl with Bamboo Leaves

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies. ...
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1963-01-13 6.6

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago. ...
Genre :Drama

1957-06-25 0

Jigoku bana

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō. ...
Genre :Drama

1956-05-18 0

Sisters of Gion

Genre :Drama

Shige

1966-08-13 6.2

Return of Giant Majin

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorab ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Woman on the street

1958-09-22 7.1

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress. ...
Genre :Drama

1951-02-24 0

Claws of Iron

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fing ...
Genre :Horror

1953-12-29 8

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a ...
Genre :Horror

Matsugorô's stepmother

1965-07-14 0

Life of Matsu the Untamed

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. ...
Genre :Drama

1954-03-13 8

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle. ...
Genre :Horror

1959-07-01 6

The Ghost of Yotsuya

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

1968-11-04 0

The Funeral Racket

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society. ...
Genre :Drama

1969-05-30 7.7

Broken Swords

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1956-02-26 7

Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichikawa Raizo and Katsu Shintaro are magnificent as th ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Shizuko Hisama

1962-01-21 6.5

The Temple of Wild Geese

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melanc ...
Genre :Drama

1963-08-06 6.8

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspe ...
Genre :Action

1975-05-31 6.949

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Fantasy, Romance

1963-10-05 7.6

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father. ...
Genre :Drama

1964-01-09 5.4

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-i ...
Genre :Action

1963-01-03 6.5

Shinsengumi Chronicles

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, War

Oseki

1970-10-14 3.667

Island of Horrors

Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cli ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror

Osato

1969-03-15 6.9

Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Tayū Bisha

1954-06-20 7.198

The Woman in the Rumor

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-03-21 5.375

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experienc ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1969-11-15 6.2

Blood End

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overth ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Romance, History

1967-08-12 6.592

Zatoichi the Outlaw

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

Omasa

1957-09-03 0

Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through his tragic end this is the story of a beloved and l ...
Genre :

1969-12-20 4.667

Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters. ...
Genre :Action

1960-01-14 5.8

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed b ...
Genre :Drama

Geisha

1953-08-12 7.527

A Geisha

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishne ...
Genre :Drama

Prostitute

1953-03-26 8

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

1968-11-06 5.7

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. ...
Genre :Action, History

1965-12-24 6.638

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turni ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1949-10-16 0

A Fool's Love

Genre :Drama

1961-04-26 0

Tabiwa Oiroke

Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of Flowers, a beautiful swordsman is in peril! Tokaido i ...
Genre :Action

1961-02-08 0

Uta wa tōge o koete

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1961-03-01 0

木曽ぶし三度笠

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1972-09-02 8

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Toku

1972-01-01 8

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mou ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama