Mitsuko Baisho
Eyaziwa Nge: Acting
Usuku lokuzalwa: 1946-11-22
Indawo yokuzalwa: Ibaraki, Japan
Obeye aziwe njengo: Mitsuko Baishô, 바이쇼 미츠코, Мицуко Байсё
The Eel
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...
Khulula : 1997.05.12Ukuthandwa : 6.725
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
Khulula : 1980.04.26Ukuthandwa : 15.14
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Khulula : 1990.05.11Ukuthandwa : 13.08
Turn
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home....
Khulula : 2001.10.13Ukuthandwa : 1.753
The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...
Khulula : 1983.04.29Ukuthandwa : 8.297
Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Khulula : 1979.04.21Ukuthandwa : 6.221
CINEMA FIGHTERS
Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.
Khulula : 2018.01.26Ukuthandwa : 1.987
Tenchu!
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
Khulula : 1969.08.09Ukuthandwa : 5.756
Blazing Famiglia
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...
Khulula : 2012.09.08Ukuthandwa : 2.062
The Lady Shogun and Her Men
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the...
Khulula : 2010.10.01Ukuthandwa : 4.475
Tales from Earthsea
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that...
Khulula : 2006.07.29Ukuthandwa : 16.784
The Crazy Family
The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...
Khulula : 1984.06.24Ukuthandwa : 3.369
The Geisha
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it...
Khulula : 1983.09.10Ukuthandwa : 1.778
Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
Khulula : 1976.02.11Ukuthandwa : 4.022
My Phoenix
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix
Khulula : 1989.05.13Ukuthandwa : 2.923
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
Khulula : 1978.07.01Ukuthandwa : 5.052
A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...
Khulula : 1995.06.03Ukuthandwa : 1.948
Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to...
Khulula : 2009.09.26Ukuthandwa : 2.248
P. P. Rider
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
Khulula : 1983.02.11Ukuthandwa : 4.294
Offbeat Cops
Tsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow....
Khulula : 2022.08.26Ukuthandwa : 1.952
Tokyo Lullaby
Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...
Khulula : 1997.06.20Ukuthandwa : 2.264
Mr. Love Chemistry 2
Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage.
Khulula : 2015.09.18Ukuthandwa : 0.616
Let Him Rest in Peace
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Khulula : 1985.06.14Ukuthandwa : 1.644
Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...
Khulula : 1970.02.09Ukuthandwa : 1.965
Solitude Point
Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named...
Khulula : 1998.02.14Ukuthandwa : 0.563
Wings of Icarus' Flight
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...
Khulula : 1980.01.26Ukuthandwa : 0.908
Rock: Wanko no Shima
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.
Khulula : 2011.07.23Ukuthandwa : 1.155
The Blind Swordsman
A documentary about the character created for a series of Japanese films starring Shintaro Katsu. There are behind-the-scenes interviews on the set...
Khulula : 1978.06.21Ukuthandwa : 1.102
Locomotive Teacher
Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to...
Khulula : 2004.07.31Ukuthandwa : 1.586
All Around Us
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...
Khulula : 2008.06.07Ukuthandwa : 2.867
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their...
Khulula : 2002.06.16Ukuthandwa : 1.755
Counterfeit
Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to...
Khulula : 2009.03.22Ukuthandwa : 1.216
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
Khulula : 1971.07.24Ukuthandwa : 0.883
Out
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...
Khulula : 2002.10.19Ukuthandwa : 2.152
Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...
Khulula : 1978.06.17Ukuthandwa : 3.251
Why Not?
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
Khulula : 1981.01.08Ukuthandwa : 2.719
52-Hertz Whales
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and...
Khulula : 2024.03.01Ukuthandwa : 7.263
Zegen
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...
Khulula : 1987.06.02Ukuthandwa : 3.053
Time Never Stops
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film...
Khulula : 2014.02.22Ukuthandwa : 1.743
Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
Khulula : 1998.05.23Ukuthandwa : 1.166
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Khulula : 2001.11.03Ukuthandwa : 7.787
Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...
Khulula : 1970.06.13Ukuthandwa : 1.47
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian...
Khulula : 2001.09.01Ukuthandwa : 2.466
The Hidden Festival
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...
Khulula : 1998.05.30Ukuthandwa : 1.555
Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...
Khulula : 1981.01.01Ukuthandwa : 1.665
Miyamoto Musashi
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...
Khulula : 1973.07.13Ukuthandwa : 2.302
A Scream from Nowhere
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy...
Khulula : 1977.06.18Ukuthandwa : 3.16
Dendera
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...
Khulula : 2011.06.25Ukuthandwa : 1.387
Shining Boy and Little Randy
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in...
Khulula : 2005.09.23Ukuthandwa : 2.799
Sing My Life
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to...
Khulula : 2016.04.01Ukuthandwa : 2.554
Chase That Man
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Khulula : 1972.02.23Ukuthandwa : 2.101
Curtain Call
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her...
Khulula : 1984.07.14Ukuthandwa : 0.739
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with...
Khulula : 2017.01.03Ukuthandwa : 1.302
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
Khulula : 1997.11.08Ukuthandwa : 1.011
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic...
Khulula : 2013.09.27Ukuthandwa : 2.874
Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all...
Khulula : 2015.01.19Ukuthandwa : 1.292
Sure Death 4
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...
Khulula : 1987.06.06Ukuthandwa : 3.612
Theater Of Life
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and...
Khulula : 1972.07.15Ukuthandwa : 1.507
Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...
Khulula : 1973.03.17Ukuthandwa : 1.41
The Shinano River
Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.
Khulula : 1973.11.22Ukuthandwa : 0.888
Daddy on a Rocking Boat
Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya
Khulula : 1973.11.22Ukuthandwa : 1.744
Follow the Girls
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Khulula : 1971.05.19Ukuthandwa : 0.947
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...
Khulula : 1977.09.17Ukuthandwa : 1.876
The Life of Chikuzan
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
Khulula : 1977.03.17Ukuthandwa : 0.89
Shichou Shisu
The mayor is found dead in the river in a small town known for its hot springs. It's assumed that he fell to his death, but his nephew just cannot...
Khulula : 2012.04.03Ukuthandwa : 0.611
Women Who Do Not Divorce
Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want...
Khulula : 1986.10.25Ukuthandwa : 2.008
Love Letter
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and...
Khulula : 1985.10.05Ukuthandwa : 1.649
11’09”01—September 11
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
Khulula : 2002.09.04Ukuthandwa : 15.792
The Three Ginza Rascals
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
Khulula : 1976.10.01Ukuthandwa : 3.636
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...
Khulula : 2019.02.22Ukuthandwa : 1.03
Lover's Duet
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
Khulula : 1967.09.30Ukuthandwa : 1.314
Bōkyō
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a...
Khulula : 2016.09.28Ukuthandwa : 1.98
Fun on the Run
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
Khulula : 1970.12.30Ukuthandwa : 0.845
Our Miyo-chan
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
Khulula : 1969.12.31Ukuthandwa : 1.26
Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Khulula : 1969.10.01Ukuthandwa : 0.892
Snowman
A near future not far from now. A couple who are tied with deep love with, Roku and Miyuki. Miyuki decide to freeze Roku had an incurable disease and...
Khulula : 2018.01.26Ukuthandwa : 0.934
Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they...
Khulula : 2020.08.21Ukuthandwa : 3.972
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
Khulula : 1968.01.04Ukuthandwa : 2.441
Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...
Khulula : 1986.04.26Ukuthandwa : 2.014
Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...
Khulula : 1985.05.05Ukuthandwa : 0.927
The Instant Services Bureau
Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.
Khulula : 1971.08.07Ukuthandwa : 0.401
By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...
Khulula : 2000.12.02Ukuthandwa : 3.007
In the Wake
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...
Khulula : 2021.10.01Ukuthandwa : 4.252
Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by...
Khulula : 2018.07.23Ukuthandwa : 0.935
Postcard
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...
Khulula : 2010.10.27Ukuthandwa : 1.882