Ruriko Asaoka
Birthday: 1940-07-02
Place of Birth: Xinjing, Manchukuo, China
Biography: Ruriko Asaoka (浅丘 ルリ子 Asaoka Ruriko), born 2 July 1940 in Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin, China), is a Japanese actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruriko Asaoka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Incident at Blood Pass
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...
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Zesshou
The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter...
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47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...
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Hawk of the Harbour
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harasse...
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The Angry Rambler
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....
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Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko....
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Toka...
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Alone Across the Pacific
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to ...
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Facing to the Clouds
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he...
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Shadow Hunters
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably no...
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Thirst for Love
A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructiv...
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I Hate But Love
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced To...
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Forbidden Lips
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mo...
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Velvet Hustler
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He han...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
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Exiled to Hell
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous ...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing ca...
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The Professor and His Beloved Equation
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father...
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Prince of Wolves
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and l...
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The Girl I Abandoned
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president....
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Asia-Pol
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter att...
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A Man Explodes
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One...
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The Harbor of No Return
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have ...
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Who is in the Background?
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginz...
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He's the Witness
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chair...
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Asiapol Secret Service
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian...
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Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driv...
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The Flame of Devotion
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her si...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendshi...
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I Will Challenge
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his ...
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Return of the Vagabond
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinj...
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Immortal Guy
Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea ...
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Confessions Among Actresses
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is...
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A Story Written with Water
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to m...
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The Rambler Rides Again
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokk...
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A Man With Dragon Tattoos
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl...
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Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countr...
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Song of Dawn
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she i...
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To Love Again
A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them ...
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The Rambling Guitarist
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local ...
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Vixen
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes p...
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Gene Waltz
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a ch...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in...
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Dendera
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to bui...
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The Woman Next Door
A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A h...
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The Tale of Genji
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, th...
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Danger Pays
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million ye...
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A World For Two
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, bu...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to ...
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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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The Song of the Season
A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure lo...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying a...
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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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The Boy Who Came Back
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with hi...
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The Green Music Box
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doe...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. Af...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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Dice and Swords
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is ...
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Wind of Volcano
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from ...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group...
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The Rambler in the Sunset
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Ban...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight b...
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A Warm Misty Night
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his belov...
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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 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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Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his j...
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder....
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The Human Cyclone
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of M...
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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 Rambler under the Southern Cross
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads wi...
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The Rambler Goes North
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads wi...
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Challenge for Glory
A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best ...
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Fangs of Night
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend...
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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 Lost Diamond
Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter atte...
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Man of a Stormy Era
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial c...
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard....
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Love Eternal
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive me...
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In Tears
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to ...
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Dancing Sisters
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th...
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Invitation from the Beach
A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madnes...
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Tales of Ginza
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband...
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Friendship of Jazz
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while ...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-...
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The Walking Major
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambli...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for ...
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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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Sun Above, Death Below
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract su...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were ...
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Mokuyo Kumikyoku
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to un...
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Jûnana-sai no teikô
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark s...
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Sixteen years old
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton c...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga...
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Suzume Iro Doki
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and ...
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than ...
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Pacific Porters
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Capta...
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Elegy to Youth
A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high ...
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Sunset Hill
A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out i...
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Gunshū no naka no taiyō
This coming-of-age drama depicts Ozaki, Takei, Minami, and Onoki, four men trained in the rugby club...
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A Love that Wagers the World
The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaok...
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Love is Beyond the Falling Stars
Based on the collection of letters by Ozaki Hidemi, who was implicated in the Sorge spy incident, th...
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Rambling in the Wind
Set in Toyohashi, the fifth and final installment of the ‘The Wanderer’ series sees Kobayashi Akira ...
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