Cast: Yumi Shirakawa

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


Yearning

1964 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yûzô Kayama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yumi Shirakawa

Synopsis 19 year old girl loses husband in war. Bombing destroys his family's shop and the widow stays to rebuild it as the rest of the family flee and runs it for 18 years out of love for her dead husband...

8.0

604 votes

8.0

604 votes

7.7

568 votes

Evening Stream

1960 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

7.0

24 votes

7.0

24 votes

Rodan

1956 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kenji Sahara · Yumi Shirakawa · Akihiko Hirata · Yasuko Nakata

Synopsis Mutant pterosaurs and prehistoric insects terrorize humanity.

Max

5.7

96 votes

5.7

96 votes

Gorath

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yumi Shirakawa · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Synopsis In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to...

5.5

21 votes

5.5

21 votes

The Mysterians (Earth Defense Force)

1957 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kenji Sahara · Yumi Shirakawa · Momoko Kôchi · Akihiko Hirata

Synopsis Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the armed...

5.3

57 votes

5.3

57 votes

The H Man

1958 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akihiko Hirata · Kenji Sahara · Koreya Senda · Yumi Shirakawa

Synopsis A drug dealer named Misaki disappears leaving only his clothes. The next day the police go to question his girlfriend, singer Chikako Arai, and she informs them that she doesn't have any information on where he is. Later that evening...

5.3

33 votes

5.3

33 votes

Sarariman shussetai kôki

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

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The Secret of the Telegian

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yumi Shirakawa · Seizaburô Kawazu · Yoshio Tsuchiya

Synopsis Detectives must stop a homicidal madman called the "Telegian" from his killing rampage, while trying to save the intended victims and solve the mystery of the madman's true intentions and origin. The Telegian uses a mind-transmitting machine to teleport himself...

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Romance Express

1961 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

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The Beast Shall Die

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Eijirô Tono · Nobuo Nakamura

Synopsis A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One of the first "lonely hit-man" or "lonely killer.

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Devils-in-Law

1968 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

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The Happy Pilgrimage

1958 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

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Young Challengers

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

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Tales of the Underworld: Big Boss

1959 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Akira Takarada · Yumi Shirakawa · Keiko Yanagawa

Synopsis Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for...

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