Akiko Koyama

AKA: 大島明子（本名）, 小山明子

1.536

1935-01-27

Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {58}

Kayo

1972-04-01 6.667

Wandering Ginza Butterfly

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy worl ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

1956-04-04 0

A Samurai's Honor at Pawn

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves. ...

Genre :Drama

Matsuko Koura, wife of Eisuke, teacher

1966-07-15 6.2

Violence at Noon

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist. ...

Genre :Drama

1962-03-04 0

Third Generation's Loyalty Offering

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie ...

Genre :

1965-08-14 0

Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O.

Genre :

Young Master's Mother

1978-09-06 7

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Horror

1965-06-25 0

Fangs of Vengeance

Genre :

Takako Tanigawa

1967-02-23 5.8

Sing a Song of Sex

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academi ...

Genre :Drama

Woman

1968-02-02 7.4

Death by Hanging

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Stepmother

1969-07-26 7.3

Boy

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Hisayo

1969-05-28 0

Women's Police: Part II

Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam H ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1983-07-02 0

Legend of Plumeria

Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a hotel chain. Although Emiko is not yet ready to get ...

Genre :Romance

お孝

1956-01-03 3

晴姿稚児の剣法

Underneath Himeji Castle, Miyamoto Bensuke was determined to inherit the will of his late father, Shinmen Munenori, and aimed to become a great swordsman. For this purpose, he challenged anyone he cou ...

Genre :

おきん

1955-07-26 0

振袖釼法

In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marrying Tsuji, the most beautiful woman in the domain. However, due to a personal grudge held by Horikaw ...

Genre :

1957-07-09 0

悪魔の顔

Genre :

1958-02-16 0

その手にのるな

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the i ...

Genre :

1957-01-15 0

白磁の人

Genre :

1959-08-09 0

Koko ni otoko ari

Genre :

Hiroko Ishii

1961-11-22 6.3

The Catch

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Setsuko

1971-05-18 7

The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan acr ...

Genre :Drama

Mansaki Geisha

1976-09-15 6.585

In the Realm of the Senses

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Company president

1964-01-01 6

My Bellett

A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima - an anthology of three stories. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Misako Nakagawa

1960-10-09 6.5

Night and Fog in Japan

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan. ...

Genre :Drama

Tsuru Ômura

1972-08-05 4.3

Dear Summer Sister

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes the ...

Genre :Drama

2010-03-13 0

The Oshima Gang

Genre :Drama, Documentary

1956-03-28 0

こゝに幸あり・前篇誘惑の都

1956 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1956-04-04 0

こゝに幸あり・後篇花咲く朝

1956 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1969-11-28 0

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Kyōko Okabe

1976-04-10 7

Karate Warriors

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Sachi Kenmochi

1977-06-18 6.1

Curse of the Dog God

A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by the locals. ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Michiko Kono

1977-12-17 6.6

Sweet Revenge

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal de ...

Genre :Mystery

1960-02-02 7.2

Shisha to no kekkon

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident. ...

Genre :

Akiko

1968-03-09 10

The Night before Pearl Harbor

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School. ...

Genre :Action, War, Mystery

1987-01-24 0

MacArthur's Children—Part II

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as childr ...

Genre :Drama

1966-09-08 0

A Thousand Suspects

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963. ...

Genre :Thriller

1969-04-19 7

The Biggest Gamble

When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-11-12 0

Journey

Genre :Drama

Emi Hosaka

1957-12-28 0

The Adorable Trio

Japanese romantic comedy film. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

1959-10-30 0

Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of ...

Genre :

1967-04-01 6

Game of Chance 2

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo a ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1970-04-04 7

Naked Ambition

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts ...

Genre :Drama

1960-04-01 0

Only She Knows

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her ...

Genre :

Asako Wakasugi

1957-12-15 0

Hearts A-Flutter

Genre :Drama

1959-07-01 0

Red Pants

A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection f ...

Genre :Drama

2013-02-23 7

The Intermission

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Uni ...

Genre :Comedy

1958-10-07 0

The Red Bat

Genre :Drama

Chigusa Shido

1983-03-12 5

Manji

Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1966-01-01 0

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

Genre :Crime

1981-08-13 0

Grudge Girls Academy: Serial Murder of Fear!

There are two bizarre rumors spreading about a girls' high school called “Seiwa Joshi Gakuen.” The first is a “Hanako-san in the Toilet”-like story about a painting that hangs in the principal's offic ...

Genre :Horror, TV Movie

1983-09-01 0

The Sea of Sparta

Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much. When kids go bad, this school beats them straight. ...

Genre :

1964-12-19 0

The Dawn of Asia

The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt ...

Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

1969-02-08 0

出獄四十八時間

Genre :

1957-06-04 0

Seizoroi momoiro goten

1957 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

Akemi

1967-02-15 4.9

Band of Ninja

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's re ...

Genre :Animation, Drama, Action, War

1973-10-03 0

Onna: Sono Ai no Series

Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous Japanese novels. ...

Genre :Drama

Oren

1965-10-06 0

Tange Sazen

The loyal Sōma clan samurai Tange Samanosuke is attacked and mutilated as the result of a betrayal, losing his right eye and right arm. He then begins to lead the life of a nihilistic ronin, using the ...

Genre :

Yamate-sama

1985-04-03 8

Sanada Taiheiki

The drama tells the story of the Sanada family. Originally serving the Takeda Clan they ruled the northern district of Shinano. The story begins right after the death of Takeda Shingen, continues thro ...

Genre :Drama

1977-04-02 7

Yokomizo Seishi Series

TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo. ...