Sayuri Yoshinaga
Birthday: 1945-03-13
Place of Birth: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合) is a Japanese actress.
Movies
Red Bud and White Flower
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry....
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Mom, Is That You?!
Akio, an HR worker, visits his transformed mother Fukue in Tokyo. Baffled by her new lively self, he...
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Homecoming
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her...
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Itsudemo yume o
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara ...
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Beautiful Calendar
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there i...
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The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of ei...
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Whistling in the morning
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illnes...
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Girl in the Glass
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young wom...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the G...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into U...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Gekashitsu
In the Meiji era, Countess Kibune must undergo surgery to save her life, but she refuses to receive ...
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About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud...
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Actress
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with dir...
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Taro the Dragon Boy
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Jap...
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A Chorus of Angels
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she take...
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Year One in the North
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, ...
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The Makioka Sisters
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
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The Longest Tunnel
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne...
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Where The Legend Lives
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the anc...
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Kabei: Our Mother
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...
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Foundry Town
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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Cape Nostalgia
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her ...
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Yearning
Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he...
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Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world,...
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Everything Goes Wrong
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The...
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The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...
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Love Comes with Youth
During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of ...
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Until Spring Comes
Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate lov...
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the ...
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It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city o...
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Buddha 2: The Endless Journey
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his po...
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A Chaos of Flowers
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about...
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Station to Heaven
From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but mediev...
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The Ambitious
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind nume...
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The Revolt
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold in...
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I Have the Sun in My Back
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from...
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Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c...
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Heavenly Sin
Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On ...
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Lost in Time
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae,...
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Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story ...
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A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo....
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Go...
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Keep Your Chin Up
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succe...
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Bright Sea
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for t...
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. H...
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Oh, My Son!
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
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Gone in the Rain
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They...
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Song of Farewell
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he l...
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The Song of Love
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician ...
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Welcome, My Baby
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and h...
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Season of Farewell
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together....
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The Black Sheep
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, ...
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The Final Winner?
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an E...
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Diary of Early Winter Shower
Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in lo...
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Sakura Guardian in the North
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri...
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Eddy Currents of Life
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature...
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The Start of Life
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father lose...
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Quick Draw Joe
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had c...
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My Sweetheart
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I...
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts no...
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Fresh Leaves
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's ...
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The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally ge...
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The Black Scar
A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek rev...
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Four Young Sisters
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home ...
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The Call of the Foghorn
A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his...
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The Sound of Waves
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls ...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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The Bucket List
Sachie Kitahara is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her family. Mako Goda is a wealthy wo...
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The Gun Like Lightning
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just rel...
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Gazing at Love and Death
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy ...
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When the Flowers Bloom
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a re...
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The Sweet Interns
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students....
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Crane
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Cra...
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The Swan Elegy
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a...
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The Heart of Hiroshima
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking a...
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The Four Loves
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they ...
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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A Morning of Farewell
Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns...
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Again
An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie fol...
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers....
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Love of Saturday
Nemoto Ritsuko is the girlfriend of Kuroki Tamotsu. Both are 22 years old. Ritsuko lives with her fa...
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Cheers to the Sky
Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely wit...
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave...
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Buddha: The Great Departure
Prince Siddhartha is heir to the Shakya kingdom, which is constantly at war with the more powerful K...
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Aoime no Sugao
A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of you...
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Journey of Love
Sayuri Yoshinaga played the first appearance of the Shochiku film. Yufuko who was married from a lov...
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When You Were Young
Kaori is a new director at a TV station and is assigned to work on her first documentary project, “K...
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A Boy Named Hiroshima
Thirty-eight years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a boy is born with only a single day to li...
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Doing What I Please
Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza...
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Climbing for Life
In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the...
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That Young May Be Eternal
A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swep...
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