Kumiko Akiyoshi Filmography

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Desert Moon

Actors: Hiroshi Mikami, Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis: Following up on his epic masterpiece Eureka, director Shinji Aoyama creates this mediation on spiritual and economic malaise in contemporary Japanese society. Nagai (Hiroshi Mikami) is an American-educated businessman desperately trying to keep his cutting edge software company afloat amid Read More

2001
Deep River

Synopsis: Based on a book by noted novelist Shusaku Endo, this film concerns three lost souls looking for meaning and redemption: Mitsuko Naruse (Kumiko Akiyoshi) is a recent divorcee still wracked with a guilty conscious; Isobe (Hisashi Igawa) is a white-collar worker morning the death of his wife to Read More

1995
The Enchantment

Actors: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masao Kusakari, Kiwaku Harado

Synopsis: It is often said that in order for psychotherapy to be really effective, "transference" (a kind of falling in love) needs to happen between the client and the therapist. Often this intense relationship tempts therapists to overstep the bounds of proper professional conduct. In this Japanese Read More

1989
Ijintachi Tono Natsu

Actors: Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tsurutaro Kataoka, Yuko Natori, Toshiyuki Nagashima

Synopsis: The Japanese Ijintachi Tono Natsu was based on a novel by Taichi Yamada. Morio Kazama plays a television writer whose spirits are crushed by his divorce. The writer moves into a tiny apartment in another part of town, hoping for a fresh start in life. But his emotions are in for another jolt: his Read More

1989
Hitohira No Yuki

1986
Chiheisen

Actors: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Miwako Fujitani, Misako Tanaka, Maiko Kawakami

Synopsis: Based on the experiences of director Kaneto Shindo's sister, this docudrama follows the life of a young Japanese woman given in marriage to a compatriot living in California, as repayment on a debt. When the woman arrives, she is desperately homesick, although her farmer-husband is kind and Read More

1984
Kyodan

Actors: Masato Furuoya, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Mio Takaki

Synopsis: After their release from a juvenile detention home, Hideo Araki (Yoshizumi Ishihara) and two of his friends get together for some target practice with a rifle, and some adventurous driving around in their car. While cruising in their vehicle, they pick up a hitchhiker named Hiromi (Mio Takaki) and Read More

1982
Uiikendo Shaffuru

Actors: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Shigeru Izumiya, Eriko Watanabe

Synopsis: When Akira Kanmyo (Masato Ibu) leaves for a trip to the store one weekend, everything seems to either go wrong or to simply shock him -- he comes across a former lover, and in a separate instance, a woman with a definite sexual fixation, and an unstable man brandishing a knife. While he has this Read More

1982
Shoot Out

1982
No Yonamono

Actors: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masahiro Kobayashi

Synopsis: In this comedy that stretches beyond the cultural barriers of Japanese language and humor, the first component in the series of misadventures to strike a note is the play on everyone's names: Shinbei, Shinsai, Shinniku, and other "Shins" dominate the cast of characters, except for Elizabeth - and Read More

1982
Saraba Itoshiki Daichi

Actors: Jinpachi Nezu, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Miyako Yamaguchi

Synopsis: In his third film, Mitsuo Yanagimachi takes a harsh view of Japan's technological modernism and its effects on the quality of life. The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction. Blaming himself, he breaks with his family Read More

1982
Yukai Hodo

Actors: Kenichi Hagiwara, Kumiko Akiyoshi

Synopsis: Yukai Hodo is a melodrama about a kidnapper spiriting away a young boy from his distraught, partially hysterical, tragically grieving parents and then bumbling, fumbling, and generally screwing up his designs on a ransom until everything looks pretty hopeless. The little boy even escapes being Read More

1982
Bokensha Kamikaze

Actors: Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tatsuo Umemiya

Synopsis: Starring in his third release in 1982 (the others were Moeru Yuja and Hoeru Tekken,) Hiroyuki Sanada plays a fighting hero one more time. In this story, he is Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student at Tozai University who becomes inspired to rip off millions (in yen) that the school collected as "special Read More

1982
Mount Hakkoda

Actors: Shogo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Tetsuro Tanba

Synopsis: Set in 1901, this movie depicts the fate of two military training companies sent on war exercises to Mount Hakkoda in the northernmost part of the main island of Japan. They were preparing for maneuvers in the Russo-Japanese War, on the orders of Maj. General Tomoda, in terrain which they believed Read More

1977