Michiyo Yasuda
Date of Birth: 27 Feb 1946
Country: China
Biography: A Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for 4 Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas.
Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Actor), 1 (Director)
Biography and picture submitted by Dunstan-xxx
Find more information about Michiyo Yasuda at The Internet Movie Database
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (25) | Director (1)
Director Takeshi Kitano takes on Japanese cinematic legend Zatoichi. Kitano stars as the blind wanderer with a distinctive red cane and a shock of platinum blonde hair. Softly-spoken, he makes a living as a masseur and by gambling, but his humble, shuffling facade masks a lightning-fast, deadly swordsman. (Miramax)
Your probable score
?
In a seaside village of Japan during the 1920s, married professor Aochi (Toshiya Fujita) meets up with old friend Nakasono (Yoshio Harada), who's now a drifter accused of murder. Aochi manages to fight off the suspicion surrounding his buddy, but complications arise when they meet bereaved geisha Koine (Naoko Otani). Nakasono is immediately smitten. Aochi is attracted, but wants to stay faithful to his wife. Yet, over time, the mind games between all three escalate in a violently sexual way.
Your probable score
?
'The inner workings of the human psyche are featured in this study of relationships between different leading characters. The action weaves around playwright Matsuzaki (Yusaku Matsuda) -- who is sleeping with Shinako (Michio Okusu), a married woman -- and his other "lover," Ine (Eriko Kasuda), a fairly corporeal spirit. The film is set in 1926, when cinema was silent -- and that era is evoked in Kagero-za.' - All Movies.com
Your probable score
?
In this 14th installment of the series, our reluctant warrior, Zatoichi (Katsu), is ambushed by a gang of bandits, and is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. In an odd quirk of fate, Zatoichi meets his victim's sister, Okichi (Yasuda), who attacks him in a fit of uncontrolled anger. Later, realizing that he had no choice in his actions, Okichi's conscience gets the better of her, and as she cares for Zatoichi's wounds, the two fall in love. (amazon)
Your probable score
?
Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad Daimyo before he destroys his clan! (imdb)
Your probable score
?
Killing her sister is just what a dreary Japanese seamstress needed to perk up her life... (offoffoff.com)
Your probable score
?
When a team of ninja is sent to kidnap Lady Oichi, the sister of the late Oda Nobunaga and wife of Shibata Katsuie without harming her, they must find a way into the fabled Iron Castle at Kitanosho, and a way out as well. Facing impossible odds, the team finds their skills tested as they risk their lives to accomplish "Mission: Iron Castle".
Your probable score
?
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation and were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation. This is the situation that The young Shinran discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Your probable score
?
Naomi's story is focused around a man's obsession for a modan garu or modern girl. The main character, Joji, is a well-educated Japanese man who is a middle management white collar worker in the city, and comes from a wealthy landlord family. Joji wishes to break away from his traditional Japanese culture, and becomes immersed in the strange new Westernized culture which was beginning to form in Japan.....
Your probable score
?
Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. As the movie begins, Kasumi Kanbei is testing his gunpowder in a small house when he senses men approaching. He hides his son Kojiro and the gunpowder. As the men enter, he kills two and fights the rest. One of the attackers cuts off Kanbei`s arm with a kusarigama (sickle and chain weapon). (shinobinomono.oninohana.com)
Your probable score
?
Rui (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a car accident, Rui goes to a remote island with ex-gangster now bodyguard (Ryuhei Matsuda). On the island, Rui reveals more about his religious group, while a set of ominous events are about to occur ... (asianwiki.com)
Your probable score
?
Early 20th century Japan. Kiyoaki Matsugae, a young aristocrat falls in love with a girl he grew up with; Satoko Ayakura, who is to be married to a prince of the royal family.
Your probable score
?
Zen is the town crank, local kabuki star and proprietor of a venison restaurant in a rural mountain village. When his wife & best friend return to town after having eloped together years earlier, the ties between kabuki and real life are made evident.
Your probable score
?
Fleeing from China, where the Japanese army is in retreat, Kisaburo, a vindictive soldier who always questions the orders of his officers, falls in love with a Chinese spy, they're on different sides of this war, and yet. But soon he'll be forced to choose between the love for his woman and sacrifice for his country. (japanesesamuraidvd)
Your probable score
?
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child. (filmaffinity)
Your probable score
?
Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt's house, basically a geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not into geisha life style too. When school is up to celebrate it's 100 year anniversary class have to prepare something for culture fest and, after chain of misfortune events, she decides to made it on stage with old dance, somewhat of her mothers legacy.
Your probable score
?
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Her greatest hurdle proves to be a "sex check" which all professional athletes must pass. (imdb)
Your probable score
?
Onna sazen: Nuretsubame katate giri (1968) - TV Movie
A little girl survives the massacre of her family by an evil lord who wanted to obtain a rare sword in the samurai family's possession. She is left for dead, having lost an eye and her right arm. She's raised by an aging swords-master. One-eyed, one-armed swordswoman O-kin lives in a small town. She is a great fighter and owns a very rare sword named ""The Drenched Swallow". Local daimyo wants to take it for himself. But O-kin keeps it and protects her friends from enemies. (imdb)
Your probable score
?
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.
Your probable score
?
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.
Your probable score
?
The fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Your probable score
?
The sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Your probable score
?
Your probable score
?
The eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Your probable score
?
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.
Your probable score
?