Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Nobuo Nakamura · Tetsuo Ishidate · Chitose Kurenai

Synopsis Koreyoshi Kurahara adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima for Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki), a tense psychological drama about a young woman who is widowed after marrying into a wealthy family, and becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yôko Tsukasa

Synopsis A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Yasunori Irikawa · Isao Yamagata

Synopsis Shizuo Matsutani, a bank clerk, is engaged to Yumika, daughter of a rich shopowner, Denzô Hashimoto. But when he discovers that his mother, the beautiful Shizuka, is having an affair with said, he delays his wedding because of it.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Masayuki Mori · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ruriko Asaoka

Synopsis A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary real-life story of one man’s obsessive quest to break free...

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Eri Fukatsu · Takanari Saito · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Synopsis This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor, who has a brain damage.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Shintarô Katsu

Synopsis In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Ineko Arima · Kiwako Taichi

Synopsis In this intricately layered film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Tatsuya Nakadai · Toshirô Mifune · Ruriko Asaoka

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Hideaki Esumi · Tomoko Hamakawa · Chieko Matsubara · Hosei Komatsu

Direction Masahiko Tsugawa

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Yoshino Kimura · Hôka Kinoshita · Akira Tanaka

Synopsis A dying old man named Shomantei has one last request. It is a different one. He would like to see the vagina of a young and pretty virgin. The family scrambles to fulfill his wish, but soon there is a...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Hideaki Nitani · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Jô Shishido · Tamio Kawaji

Synopsis The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Renaud Verley · Ruriko Asaoka · Tetsuo Ishidate · Yôko Kosono

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Mihoko Inagaki · Toshio Sugiyama

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Koji Ishizaka · Bunta Sugawara · Kiichi Nakai

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Ruriko Asaoka · Jun Etô

Synopsis Lily, the lounge singer with whom Tora-san fell in love in film 11 (Tora-san's Forget Me Not, 1973) and film 15 (Tora-san's Rise and Fall, 1975) sends Tora-san a letter informing him that she is terminally ill. Tora-san rushes to...

Cast Mirai Shida · Shiori Kutsuna · Arisa Nakamura · Hiroshi Koizumi

Synopsis Seira was raised in India, but she is sent back to Japan to continue her education at an affluent boarding high school. Although she has lived in luxury, the well-bred Seira is kind and generous, earning her many friends at...

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Takahisa Aida · Kyosuke Aihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Yuko Chishiro

Synopsis Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Hideki Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Synopsis Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while...