Jitsuko Yoshimura
Birthday: 1943-04-18
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Jitsuko Yoshimura (吉村実子 Yoshimura Jitsuko, born 18 April 1943) is a Japanese actress. She was discovered by Shohei Imamura as a newcomer and cast in the film Pigs and Battleships. She went on to appear in The Insect Woman and Onibaba. She retired from acting in 1970, but returned in 1980 and continues to work to this day.
Movies
The Promised Land
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road...
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Onibaba
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who...
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Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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Samurai Spy
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob...
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Box: The Hakamada Case
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incar...
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Signal Fool
Isamu, a sixth-grade boy, lost his mother in a car accident at a young age. Ever since, he's been un...
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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If You Were Young: Rage
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the t...
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All About Our House
Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it...
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Coquille
Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer...
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An Innocent Witch
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat...
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji....
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Oshin
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial c...
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The Bogus Policeman
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismi...
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Sadako
A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed...
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Hoshi wo tsugu mono
An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII....
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The Devil's Path
Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man...
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Mother
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving a...
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The Night of the Seagull
A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of he...
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Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII ...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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Bad Girls of Japan
Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the conc...
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O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to inv...
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The Insect Woman
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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The Last Judgment
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern....
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