Sayuri Yoshinaga Filmography

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Kabei

Actors: Mitsugoro Bando, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano

Synopsis: Veteran Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada's eightieth feature film concerns a mother living in 1940s-era Tokyo who is forced to care for her two daughters alone after her husband is jailed for expressing reformist views on the Japanese invasion of China. Professor Shigeru Nogami (Mitsugoro Bando) is Read More

2008
Yume No Onna

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Sumie Sasaki, Hiroyuki Nagato

Synopsis: Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is Read More

1993
Tengoku No Taizai

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Omar Sharif, Toshiyuki Nishida

Synopsis: This crime and adventure drama was clearly made for local Japanese consumption, because its Japanese hero faces as dastardly a crew of evil foreigners as ever graced a soundstage: Chinese in all shapes and sizes, blacks, Arabs, Southeast Asians, and even a few European types. Japan's Korean Read More

1992
Eiga Joyu

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Bunta Sugawara, Koji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai

Synopsis: The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as Lillian Gish's was in the U.S. -- it spanned the early days of silent movies and continued well into the 1970s. This biographical drama covers her career up to the point when she is Read More

1987
Genkai Tsurezure Bushi

1986
Yumechiyo Nitsuki

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuko Natori

1985
Ohan

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Koji Ishizaka, Reiko Ohara

1984
The Makioka Sisters

Actors: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuko Kotegawa, Juzo Itami

Synopsis: The Makioka Sisters will probably best be appreciated by those with an intimate knowledge of 20th century Japanese culture. The film, set just before World War II, chronicles the experiences of four upper-class Osaka sisters, two of them married. We see the shifting political and social scene Read More

1983
Kaikyo

Actors: Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Miura, Naoko Otani

Synopsis: In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from the main island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a passenger ship in the treacherous waters of the straits. His solution to the marine dangers is to first advocate Read More

1982
Senso to Ningen

Synopsis: This is the third of a series of Japanese epics dealing with the exploits of a family that owns factories in Manchuria in the 1930s. The atrocities committed by Japan in China are not glossed over but become central to the story. Battles with the Chinese and the Russians are shown on a big scale Read More

1974
Cupola

Actors: Eijiro Tono, Tokuko Sugiyama, Sayuri Yoshinaga

Synopsis: An unusual and accomplished film in spite of a few minor flaws, this directorial effort by Kiriro Urayama was co-scripted by acclaimed Shohei Imamura, and deals with the justified rebellion of a brother and sister living in a Japanese backwater. The siblings have been raised by a petty Read More

1962
Kusa-O Karu Musume

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuko Mochizuki, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shiro Osaka

Synopsis: This is a simple, down-to-earth comedy that revolves around the age-old issues of love and matchmaking. One group of farmers heads out to cut grass each summer, bringing with them a charming young woman who is not yet married. Their leader is an old matriarch who has her own counterpart in Read More

1962