Michiyo Yasuda
Birthday: 1946-02-27
Place of Birth: Tianjin, China
Biography: Michiyo Okusu (大楠 道代, Ōkusu Michiyo, born February 27, 1946) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Women's Prison
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortu...
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Face
Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that ...
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Zigeunerweisen
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through...
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Lefty Fencer
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was afte...
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The Fallen Angel
The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since th...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...
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Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....
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I'm Flash!
Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention fr...
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Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li...
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The Goofball
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife...
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Spring Snow
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the...
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Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into ...
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The Two in Tracksuits
A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains....
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Yumeji
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter...
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BU・SU
Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to liv...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school...
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange character...
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Hanging Garden
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are ...
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Love for an Idiot
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she ensla...
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Secrets of a Woman's Temple
A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare...
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The Sex Check
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWI...
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The Little Runaway
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upo...
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The Projects
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, ther...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and...
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Slaughter in the Snow
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of M...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...
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Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adapt...
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The Freezing Point
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kid...
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Woman Gambler Is Coming
Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidak...
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where ...
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring wher...
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The Daring Nun
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she oft...
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Solar Eclipse
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after th...
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The Virgin Witness
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitia...
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Bedtime Eyes
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between ...
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Mission: Iron Castle
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, ...
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Naked Ambition
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poison...
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law....
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I Never Shot Anyone
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, ...
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies....
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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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The Detective Journey
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become ...
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Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as pol...
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Tekken
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a box...
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