Akemi Negishi
Birthday: 1934-03-26
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Akemi Negishi (根岸明美 Negishi Akemi, b. 26 March 1934, Tokyo, Japan - died 11 March 2008 (73), Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese actress. In 1953, when Josef von Sternberg made a film adaptation of the Queen of Anatahan incident, she was discovered at an audition and made her debut in the lead role in Anatahan. Since then, she has been active mainly in film and television. She gained popularity as an actress with a bewitching charm who "could act as well." Ishirō Honda said that Negishi's unique aura suited his films. She died of ovarian cancer at a hospital in Kawasaki City on March 11, 2008. She was 73 years old.
Movies
King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Sex and Fury
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by u...
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completin...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she...
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Anatahan
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten is...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the ...
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Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Distant Thunder
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is ...
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The Hot Little Girl
A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal....
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Code of Ruffians
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it w...
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Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a...
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money...
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18 Roughs
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habi...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip clu...
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The Setting Sun
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o...
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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in ...
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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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Play It Cool
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is th...
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Female Yakuza Tale
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs in...
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A Wife's Heart
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Lady Karuizawa
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and b...
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The Wandering of the Naked General: The Kiyoshi Yamashita Story
Sent to an institution for mentally handicapped children by his parents, he began creating artworks ...
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Snake Woman's Curse
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haun...
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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 Underworld
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantica...
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation....
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Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
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King of the Widow-Killers
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night ...
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The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that...
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High School Juniors (Part II)
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, re...
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An Unforgettable Affair
Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in te...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei...
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The Life of Chikuzan
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal...
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Express Train
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who ...
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No More Easy Life
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of he...
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in...
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Military Comfort Woman
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army du...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi...
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Aoi bara satsujin jiken
A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a...
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Shikibu monogatari
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial acciden...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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The Makioka Sisters
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...
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Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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