The best Yoshiko Yamaguchi’s movies

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

12/02/1920- 07/09/2014
Today we present the best Yoshiko Yamaguchi’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Yoshiko Yamaguchi’s movies.
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Scandal

Scandal
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/04/1950
  • Character: Miyako Saijo
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1955
  • Character: Mariko
Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

Navy Wife

Navy Wife
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1956
  • Character: Akashi
Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.

Japanese War Bride

Japanese War Bride
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1952
  • Character: Tae Shimizu
A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.

The Legend of the White Serpent

The Legend of the White Serpent
6.4/10
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Sword for Hire

Sword for Hire
7/10
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.

Shanghai Rose

Shanghai Rose
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/08/1952
  • Character: Li Lili

Suzhou Nights

Suzhou Nights
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/12/1941
A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her wards. Disease outbreaks and family obligations, however, threaten to torpedo their budding romance.

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/09/1948
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Escape at Dawn

Escape at Dawn
7.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 08/01/1950
  • Character: Harumi
Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her. Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi with a screenplay by Taniguchi and Akira Kurosawa and assistant direction by Ishiro Honda. Kurosawa's final credit as a screenwriter was removed from initial release due to various rewrites.

The Last Embrace

The Last Embrace
7/10
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.

Toyuki

Toyuki
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/02/1940
  • Character: Liqin

Oath on the Burning Sands

Oath on the Burning Sands
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1940
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at building a highway through the "bandit"- (aka anti-Japanese militia-) infested hinterlands.

Eternity

Eternity
  • Release: 01/01/1942
The life and story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War.

Ningen moyo

Ningen moyo
6.5/10
  • Release: 14/06/1949
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

Sayon's Bell

Sayon's Bell
6.1/10
  • Release: 01/07/1943
  • Character: Sayon
Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.

My Nightingale

My Nightingale
6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 24/03/1944
  • Character: Mariko

Endless Passion

Endless Passion
  • Release: 29/09/1949
  • Character: Beautiful singer
Comedy by Kon Ichikawa

Foghorn

Foghorn
8/10
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

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