Kimiko Tachibana
Birthday: 1921-10-10
Place of Birth: Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Undercurrent
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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A Baby Given by a Fox
A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. B...
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...
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The Woman in the Rumor
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...
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Freelance Samurai
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
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Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
Bored Hatamoto movie #11...
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Audition
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...
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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...
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Samurai Save The Virgin
A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbule...
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Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country d...
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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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An Heir's Place
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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Bakeneko Goyōda
A comic thriller directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, a first-time newcomer, based on a screenplay by Toshio T...
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Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. ...
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Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the cove...
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Maboroshijō kaiketsu-hen kizoji no gaika
Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mounta...
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Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio
Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the...
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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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Okoto and Sasuke
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō....
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Broken Swords
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z...
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Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's o...
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the...
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Ken
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedic...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t...
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Sword Devil
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw o...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides i...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot ...
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Irezumi
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends ...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave...
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Bronze Magician
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer...
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A Lustful Man
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven...
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman...
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A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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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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Marathon Samurai
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("...
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The Curse of the Ghost
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei S...
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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Second in the Nage Utasamon series...
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The Radiant Prince
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji...
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Three Stripes in the Sun
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falli...
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