Cast: Hisano Yamaoka

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


The Graceful Brute (Elegant Beast)

1962 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi · Yuko Hamada · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot The original story of amazingly greedy people with cheat, embezzle and corruption. It's all set in this little apartment of the Maeda family. The son's taking money from the talent...

6.8

32 votes

6.8

32 votes

The Sleeping Beast Within

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shoichi Ozawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

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Beyond the Clouds

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

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Inn of the Floating Weeds

1957 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hachiro Kasuga · Hideaki Nitani · Hisano Yamaoka · Ikuko Kimuro

Plot Another Kayo-eiga (Pop Song Film), inspired by the hit Ukikusa No Yado sung by Hachiro Kasuga. Although the singer has a co-starring role, the movie was designed as a star...

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Onna wa nido umareru

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Sô Yamamura · Jun Fujimaki · Frankie Sakai

Plot Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

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Za temputazu

1969 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

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Heat Wave Island

1969 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jūzō Itami · Daigo Kusano · Ichiro Sugai

Plot Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the...

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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

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Take Care, Red Riding Hood

1970 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Yusuke Okada · Akira Nakao · Ayako Hosho · Akiko Kazami

Plot A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

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Time Within Memory

1973 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

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Gan

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Ayako Wakao · Gaku Yamamoto · Eitarô Ozawa · Hisano Yamaoka

Plot Otama lives in poverty with his old father. Until a neighbor acts as an alcahueta and presents her to Suezo, a rich merchant of kimonos, married and with children, who...

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Shi no jûjiro

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama · Hisano Yamaoka · Izumi Ashikawa

Plot A man accidentally kills his wife after she confronts him about his mistress. Now he and his mistress try to hide the body... Based on a story by Edogawa Ranpo.

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Navy Special Young Soldier

1972 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Takeo Chii · Katsuhiko Sasaki · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

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Miren

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

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The Political Game

1989 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction James Miki

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Mayumi Ogawa · Kei Suma · Takeshi Ôbayashi

Plot A university professor decides to run for a local office.

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Lake of Tears

1966 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Katsuo Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura · Hisano Yamaoka

Plot Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo to work as a shamisen string maker. There she meets and falls for Ukichi, a young and naive co-worker. But her peaceful life is...

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