Movies: Yoko Minakaze

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history....

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival fami...

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl....

Remake of 1949 film...

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It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War....

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and th...

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A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings....

A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television....

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles....

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself....

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper....

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits roll in and we find out what lead her character to this end....

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the ...

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan....

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact....

Japanese war drama....

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....

Film by Deme Masanobu...