Yuriko Hoshi
Birthday: 1943-12-06
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Yuriko Hoshi (星由里子 Hoshi Yuriko) was a Japanese actress. As one of Toho's young stars in the 1960's, she played reporters in the Godzilla films Godzilla vs. Mothra and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, as well as Yuichi Tanuma's girlfriend in the Young Guy series. Hoshi passed away from lung cancer on May 16, 2018, at the age of 74.
Movies
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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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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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and...
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Kill!
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on...
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The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...
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The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Wandering -SASURAI-
A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, ...
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Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Young Guy at Sea
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy re...
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I Shall Not Forget
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke'...
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Angel, My Song Is Your Song
A young man finds out that his ex-lover has only one week left to live, and with the help of angels,...
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It Started In The Alps
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa....
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Young Guy in the South Pacific
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in de...
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River of First Love
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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Hidden Fangs
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch....
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A Keg of Powder
In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates th...
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Night Train to the Stars
“Night Train to the Stars” is a biography of the fascinating life of Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan's ...
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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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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retire...
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The Other Woman
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Operation Enemy Fort
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attem...
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Green Light to Joy
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to ent...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series....
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Warring Clans
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan a...
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Unrequited Love
Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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Man Against Man
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing ...
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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Campus A Go-Go
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Rel...
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Karate Cop 3
A cop, Katayama, gains the trust of a mother and daughter whose father, Nishina, is missing after be...
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Only the Cat Knows
Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from t...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Kats...
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Legacy of the 500,000
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay...
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Let's Go! Young Guy
College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off ag...
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Wish You Were Here
On the eve of her latest fashion showcase in Beijing, successful entrepreneur Yuan Yuan is approache...
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College Champ
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. H...
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The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain ...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family ...
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Free and Easy 18
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up durin...
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Blow the Spring Wind in the Schoolyard
A drama in which Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in the movie for the first time in nine years since "Autum...
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Counterstroke
Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yas...
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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Young Girls in Love
The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by vario...
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Afternoon of the Evil Spirits
An ancient evil spirit resurrects in the modern age and possesses a beautiful woman....
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Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchis...
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The Panda Story
Kayo, a zookeeper, dreams of raising a panda one day. However, she soon decided to study abroad in C...
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The Terrible Game
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t...
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B.G Story: Designs of a 20 Year-Old
Ayako Kurimura, a new B.G. at Nitto Electric, becomes the object of affection for both her brother's...
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Young Guy in Rio
Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his profe...
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Salarygirl Story: Saucy Staff
Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm, where buried family secrets and a com...
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3 Raccoon Dogs
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their scheme...
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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The Path Under the Platanes
Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play....
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The Man from the East
Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwel...
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Fright Time
A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, con...
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Night in Bangkok
Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealt...
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