Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Etsuko Shihomi. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Shogun's Samurai

1978 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Sonny Chiba · Hiroki Matsukata · Teruhiko Saigô

Synopsis Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his...

6.8

83 votes

6.8

83 votes

Legend of Eight Samurai

1983 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi

Synopsis The story follows Shizu-hime (Hiroko Yakushimaru), her family slain and on the run from her enemies. As she escapes she is found by the vagabond Shinbei (Hiroyuki Sanada), before being rescued from her pursuers by Dōsetsu (Sonny Chiba). He tells...

6.0

50 votes

6.0

50 votes

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge

1974 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Sonny Chiba · Reiko Ike · Kôji Wada · Tatsuo Endô

Synopsis In the third of the 'Streetfighter' adventures, action star Sonny Chiba reprises his role as James Bond-esque agent Tsurugi who this time embarks on a deadly road of revenge when heroin manufacturers kill his girlfriend.

6.0

118 votes

6.0

118 votes

Killing Machine

1975 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

5.8

64 votes

5.8

64 votes

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Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment

1977 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Chia Lun · Etsuko Shihomi · Emi Shindô

Synopsis Blood for Money! Sonny Chiba is "Golgo 13", a cold, calculating, ruthless assassin, working for the U.S. drug syndicate. His assignment: "take-out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His only obstacle: a relentless cop, determined to stop him - no matter what...

5.7

128 votes

5.7

128 votes

Shogun's Ninja

1980 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Yuki Ninagawa

Synopsis In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key...

5.0

21 votes

5.0

21 votes

Message from Space

1978 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Sonny Chiba · Vic Morrow · Philip Casnoff · Etsuko Shihomi

Synopsis In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played a comic actor in drag) rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight...

4.7

112 votes

4.7

112 votes

The Karate Inferno

1974 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

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Sister Street Fighter

1974 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Emi Hayakawa · Sanae Ôhori

Synopsis Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister, Tina...

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The Audition

1984 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Taku Shinjo

Cast Masanori Sera · Yukie Suzuki · Saori Iwama · Yumiko Itaya

Synopsis Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

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13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats

1975 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

Direction Makoto Naito

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Misa Ohara · Hiroshi Nawa · Tatsuya Nanjô

Synopsis Maki is the leader of a female gang that fights for justice, but she is taken and sent to a sadistic women's prison.

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Karate Bear Fighter

1977 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima

Synopsis This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

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Shanghai Rhapsody

1984 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Morio Kazama · Etsuko Shihomi · Ryudo Uzaki

Synopsis Set in the 1930s in Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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The Power of Aikido

1975 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Jirô Chiba · Sonny Chiba · Yôko Koizumi · Ryunosuke Kaneda

Synopsis An action movie that illustrates the struggle of Morihei Ueshiba who was born in a farming family in Wakayama on his way of pursuing the heart of martial arts until he finally created his own well-polished Aikido.

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Return of the Sister Street Fighter

1975 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Akane Kawasaki · Miwa Cho · Mitchi Love

Synopsis When the crime boss has to pick one of his thugs for a fight he takes his knife, throws it to the roof and kills a butterfly with it, then the knife falls to one guy's shoulder and that's the...

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Exchange Students

1982 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Satomi Kobayashi · Toshinori Omi · Makoto Satô · Sayuri Ishibashi

Synopsis 9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched.

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Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Tamayo Mitsukawa · Michiyo Bandô · Hisako Tanaka

Synopsis This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry...

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Roaring Fire

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Mikio Narita

Synopsis Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been murdered in mysterious circumstances. While staying with his sister he...

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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

1976 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Mitchi Love · Masafumi Suzuki · Masako Araki

Synopsis Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. In order to help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate...

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