Miyuki Setsuko

Ogawa Hirooki

Ogawa Hirooki was a Japanese composer born in Shinbashi, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. He served as a director of the Japan Composer's Association. He graduated from Daikura High School of Commerce's Junior Division in 1943, and furthered his studies in vocal music under Tachimatsu Fusako and Sonoda Seiichi,…

Ogasawara Mariko

Ogasawara Mariko is a Japanese actress.

Frankie Sakai

Frankie Sakai was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his music. Becoming a professional comedian, he appeared in many famous film comedies, such…

Sugai Ichiro

He appeared in more than 140 films between 1930 and 1971.

Yamashita Kosaku

Shindo Eitaro

Eitaro Shindo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1936 and 1975. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tsukui Minami

Tsukui Minami is a Japanese actress. She is currently represented by Japan Action Enterprise.

Wakao Ayako

Wakao Ayako is a Japaneses actress. She has appeared in over 100 films and won a handful of Best Actress awards. During the 50s and 60s, she starred alongside Daiei’s most famous actors in many of the studios biggest movies, including 20 films from maverick director Yasuzo MASUMURA. Her most prestigious…

Ban Junzaburo

The Flower and the Angry Waves

8.0

A violent exploration of modernity and corruption and the collapse of codes of honor in the face of commerce, through the eyes of a migrant who hopes to start afresh, spiced with his melodramatic love story with a…

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle…

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

A man, Asakichi, becomes the target of the yakuza when he relates to a geisha. (Source: IMDb)

Kare

Sayoko is the manager of the Madonna beauty salon. With her husband Seiji addicted to gambling, she is more open that she might have expected to the prospect of hiring broken-hearted hunk Toshiya, a hair and makeup…

Nagasaki burabura bushi

5.0

Set in the southern city of Nagasaki during the 1920s, the story depicts the romantic involvement between a beautiful aging woman who used to be a legendary geisha, Aihachi, and an equally aging businessman and amateur…

Nagasaki Burabura Bushi

Set in the southern city of Nagasaki during the 1920s, the story depicts the romantic involvement between a beautiful aging woman who used to be a legendary geisha, Aihachi, and an equally aging businessman and amateur…

Theater of Life: Hishakaku

8.0

Story of yakuza's honor, duty and loyalty. Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Due to his obligation to Kokin, he is involved in a gang war and…

Tough Guy

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi…

Shin Yukiguni

4.0

Shibano Kunio was bankrupted. He visited snowland spa aria to commit suicide. But then he met Geisha Moeko and she gave him power to challenge life one more time. (Source: AsianWiki)