Yumiko Nogawa
Birthday: 1944-08-30
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Biography: Yumiko Nogawa, born August 30, 1944, is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably Gate of Flesh (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including Story of a Prostitute (1965) and Carmen from Kawachi (1966), these films are known as Nogawa's "Flesh Trilogy". Nogawa has appeared in numerous films in Japan, including director Nagisa Oshima's The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) and Zatoichi & the Fugitives (1968), the eighteenth film in the Zatoichi series. She has also appeared in television series on Nippon Television, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV, and NHK. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yumiko Nogawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete reco...
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man
The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continue...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknam...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...
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Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled mon...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) cha...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides...
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Gate of Flesh
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostit...
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A Certain Killer
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yak...
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Easy Money
An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens....
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Carmen from Kawachi
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model s...
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A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa e...
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Human Scramble: Delinquent
Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane....
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The Shogun's Vault II
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the s...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime gar...
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Killer's Mission
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,...
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Duel in the Storm
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in...
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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he ...
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Jirocho of Shimizu 3: Man Tears, the End of Ishimatsu
Jirocho Shimizu has now sealed his family's long sword with a ban on fighting and makes a living as ...
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Four and A Half Mats
Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. ...
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The Ghostly Trip
The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the dire...
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Sea of Wandering
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns...
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The Path of the King
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have...
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The Gambling Nun
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh...
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The Man from Planet Alpha
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Cr...
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The Craziest Operation
The Crazy Cats try to steal 1,000,000,000 yen in laundered Yakuza money....
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Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munef...
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Born Under Crossed Stars
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the ser...
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The Book Peddler
Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicy...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in tru...
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Golden Ninja
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the de...
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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 O...
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Female Ninja Magic
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blo...
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Yanagase Blues
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....
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Woman Gambler
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her m...
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Hoodlum Soldier
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. ...
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The Actress vs. the Greedy Sharks
Framed by his enemies, Manbe finds himself imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit. His only hope l...
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A Modern Yakuza: Broken Code
A young yakuza soldier is torn between staying in his current life or leaving his family when his bo...
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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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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered....
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Gambling Kitten
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a reg...
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this b...
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The Sea Is Watching
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Aga...
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official....
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Onna no hanamichi
A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro...
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Three Wild Cats
Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unb...
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Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka...
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Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess wit...
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Industrial Spy Free-for-All
Saburo Sarutobi, a former member of the Zengakuren, and Maruo Inumaruo, a former member of the polic...
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Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seven...
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Vendetta of Obligation
This is the story of the 47 ronin of the Ako clan who rose up to avenge the brutal death of their be...
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Black Corridor
A luxury European tour turns deadly when two wealthy participants die under mysterious circumstances...
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I'll Be Deceived
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt....
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