Sumiko Fuji

Sumiko Fuji

Date of Birth: 01 Dec 1945

Country: Japan

Biography: The daughter of a producer at the Tōei studios, she originally began acting under the name Junko Fuji (藤 純子), becoming famous as the female lead in yakuza films against such stars as Ken Takakura and Kōji Tsuruta. She even starred in her own series as the knife-wielding gambler Red Peony (the "Hibotan Bakuto" or "Red Peony Gambler" series). Initially retiring in 1972 after getting married, she began appearing on TV in 1974 using the name "Sumiko Fuji." She later re

Total Credits at Criticker: 42 (Actor)

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    Suwîto rein: Shinigami no seido
    As the Grim Reaper in human form, Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to 'execute' or 'pass over'...Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki, 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It's time for the Reaper to go to work. (asiacue.com)
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    Ah haru
    Hiroshi, who has never known his father, is a graduate from a prestigious university, and has a high-flying club job in the world of stocks and shares. Happily married to a beautiful wife, with a son he dotes on, his life appears to be the epitome of success for a Japanese salaryman. One evening, on his way home, he is accosted by a raggedy man who claims to be his father. (imdb)
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    Summer Wars
    Kenji Koiso, an eleventh grade math genius, agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natuski. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of the family matriarch. His job is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with earth (imdb)
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    Bakuchi-uchi: socho tobaku
    When a gambling crime boss dies his followers have to decide who will replace him.
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    Hibotan bakuto: oryû sanjô
    In her search for a blind child Oryufinds herself in the middle of a gang war.
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    Hibotan bakuto: isshuku ippan
    A group of farmers finds themselves in debt to a loan shark and Oryu is enlisted to help them out.
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    Hibotan bakuto
    When Oryu catches a dealer cheating in an illicit card game she makes some powerful enemies.
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    Hibotan bakuto: hanafuda shobu
    Oryu, looking for accommodation from a crime group finds herself in their debt during a turf war.
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    Hibotan bakuto: nidaime shumei
    Oryu is pulled into a clash between boat and rail workers.
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    Hibotan bakuto: tekkaba retsuden
    Oryu tries to settle down in a fishing village, but when a dispute over gambling rights flares up, she finds herself drawn into the fray.
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    Hibotan Bakuto: Oinochi Itadaki masu
    Oryu must defend villagers from greedy factory owners and politicians harming the land.
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    Hibotan bakuto: jingi tooshi masu
    Oryu is visiting a dying yakuza boss when a turf war breaks out and betrayal is suspected.
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    The Inugamis
    When tycoon Inugami Sahei passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marry one of the Inugami grandsons - Sukekiyo , Suketake, or Suketomo - pitting blood against blood. Soon afterwards, members of the family begin to show up dead, one by one. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke is called in to investigate the murders, and the truth is slowly revealed as he happens upon years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. (Asian Media Wiki)
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    Nihon jokyo-den: kyokaku geisha
    Late 60's period drama/romance film with some yakuza leanings. Junko Fuji is beautiful and graceful as Shinji, a Hakata geisha who is being pursued by a corrupt and evil coal mining baron, but ends up falling in love with an ex-yakuza (Ken Takakura) who owns a competing mine. Tensions rise between the rival mine owners with Shinji in the middle.
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    Tasmania Story
    A sixth-grade elementary school student, Shoichi, is visiting his divorced father who lives in Australia after retiring from a leading Japanese company in order to find the Tasmanian Tiger. Shoichi had run away from home and is in Sydney looking for his father
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    The Geisha House
    Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house.
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    Shôwa zankyô-den: Ippiki okami
    The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Show Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro of the Shimazu family. When the boss of the Shimazu is killed, Shigejiro takes revenge and is sent to jail. Upon his release, he meets the dying widow of one of hid followers and takes her to her father, Boss Shiomasa, who take him into his family. But when Shiomasa is killed by an old enemy, Shigejiro is obligated to take revenge... (themoviedb)
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    Shôwa zankyô-den: Chizome no karajishi
    The Karashi Botan returns in the fourth chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Takakura Ken plays Hidejiro, the reluctant boss of a firefighter company. They win the bidding for the construction contract of an annual festival. When a rival family, desperate for that contract, becomes treacherous and violent, Hidejiro must take brutal revenage. (japanesesamuraidvd.com)
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    Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi
    The fifth in a powerful series about brutality, duty and honor, staring the legendary TAKAKURA Ken. 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 taking in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge... (themoviedb)
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    Gokuchu no kaoyaku
    The story rests on a rivalry between two yakuza families, Takeshi and Honma. Takeshi runs security at the bicycle racetrack but Honma wants to push them out. The city mayor sides with Takeshi and the council favors Honma. Toshiko is the daughter of the Takeshi boss, and Takakura a member of that crime family. Takakura is a strong upholder of the yakuza code, and that's the main theme of the story. (imdb)
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    Shafu yukyoden - kenka tatsu
    "Fightin' Tatsu the Rickshaw Man" (...) injects a lighter note into a yakuza tale as fiercely free-spirited Tatsu (Ryohei Uchida) arrives in Osaka in 1898 from Edo with the first rubber-wheeled rickshaw the city has ever seen. Far from happy about his arrival is the Nishikawa yakuza clan, which has a lock on the rickshaw business emanating from the busy main train station (...) (articles.latimes.com)
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    Love Never to End
    He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage daughter (Shihori Kanjiya), he meets Fuyuka Irie (Shinobu Terajima), a housewife and mother of three who is a longtime fan. (The Movie Database)
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    Nippon jokyô-den: Gekitô Himeyuri-misaki
    (...) Junko [Fuji] is a boss not over gamblers but this time of a trucking company. (...) She has run-ins with evil yakuza (& is aided by the standard "good" yakuza played by rawboned Bunta Sugawara) during the American occupation of Okinawa, an unusual time & setting for the ninkyo or chivalrous brand of yakuza film. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters, & indirectly by American GI influences. She must go with her employees to help settle things, ultimately with violence. (weirdwildrealm.com)
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    Three Yakuza
    This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan's gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming yakuza, seeks sanctuary with a gang which then asks his help in a fight against its rivals. His attention is drawn primarily to a young woman who waits in vain for the man she loves. In the second tale, two gamblers barely escape from their pursuers after being caught cheating. (imdb)
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    Hoodlum Match
    A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances. (imdb)
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    The Chivalrous Life
    Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs. (imdb)
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    Gege
    Takayuki is a much loved teacher in Tokyo. Out of the blue he is diagnosed with Behçet's syndrome. He quits his job and goes back to the family home in Nagasaki where his mother still resides. He determines to walk the town & imprint the cherished scenery of his youth before the disease runs its full course. He is joined there by his partner Yoko.
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    Meiji kyokyakuden - sandaime shumei
    Set in Osaka in 1907, it centers on a yakuza, Asajiro (Koji Tsurata), a man of honor, who must deal with a conflict over a prostitute while struggling to compete with another clan; both are hoping to go legitimate as the city is poised to develop its port for international trade. (latimes.com)
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    Shiruku hatto no ô-oyabun
    Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. (imdb)
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    Shiruku hatto no ô-oyabun: chobi-hige no kuma
    The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami. (thehawaiiherald.com)
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    Nihon jokyo-den: ketto midare-bana
    The story of Tei, a female coal mine operator, who risks her life to protect the business that was passed on by late husband. (thehawaiiherald.com)
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    Buddies
    Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.... (TMDB)
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    Shingo\
    After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the land, he tries to lead a peaceful life with his mother far away from the seat of government in Edo. Not wanting to inconvenience his father anymore his plan is to stay away from the city and enjoy life like a normal man. Unfortunately for him, his past comes back to haunt him in the person of his mortal enemy, the one swordsman that is skillful enough to defeat him.
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    Samurai\
    During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan. (themoviedb)
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    Nihon jokyo-den: tekka geisha
    Koshizu (Fuji), a young geisha, tries to kill herself but is saved by cook Yukichi (Sugahara). Rival geisha Adakichi (Yumi), greedy trader Yasukawa (Abe) and wealthy businessman Asai (Soganoya) add up to dramatic turns. (imdb)
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    Nihon ansatsu hiroku
    This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. (imdb)
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    Yagyu Chronicles 7: The Cloud of Disorder
    A former Yagyu Clan member confesses to the murder of Imperial Prince Takahito and then commits suicide. Fearing this may cause a war between the Imperial Court and the Shogunate, Jubei sets out to find answers. (imdb)
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    The Yagyu Chronicles 8: The One-Eyed Ninja
    The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d'etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate. (imdb)
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    Lady Maiko
    For as long as she can remember, Haruko has wanted to be a geisha. Eager to start her career, she approaches a teahouse in one of Kyoto's famous geisha districts to become an apprentice geisha, or maiko—only to be rejected due to her lack of references, country bumpkin dialect and uncultivated demeanor. (themoviedb.org)
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    Bakumatsu zankoku monogatari
    A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.
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    Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man\
    Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest.
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    Amadera maruhi monogatari
    Third film in the Maruhi series. Focuses on the life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period. Junko Fuji in leading role for the first time.
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