Cast: Etsuko Shihomi
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Etsuko Shihomi. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 26
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
Direction Norifumi Suzuki
Cast Sonny Chiba · Yutaka Nakajima · Makoto Satô · Naoya Makoto
5.8
64 votes
5.8
64 votes
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
Direction Teruo Ishii
Cast Sonny Chiba · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima · Etsuko Shihomi
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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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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
1974 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
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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Atami satsujin jiken
1986 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Takahashi
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsuko Shihomi · Morio Kazama · Jun Etô
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