Cast: Shirley Yamaguchi
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Shirley Yamaguchi. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
House of Bamboo
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Robert Stack · Robert Ryan · Shirley Yamaguchi · Brad Dexter
Plot Sandy Dawson had assembled a platton of ex-army thugs to run panchinko parlours while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Scandal
1950 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shirley Yamaguchi · Yôko Katsuragi · Noriko Sengoku
Plot On holiday in the snow-covered mountains, young painter Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) has a chance meeting with the popular singer Miyako Saijo (Shirley Yamaguchi). After giving her a ride back...
6.7
664 votes
6.7
664 votes
Japanese War Bride
1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Don Taylor · Cameron Mitchell · Marie Windsor
Plot Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes...
6.6
72 votes
6.6
72 votes
Winter Jasmine
1942 · Movie · 73 min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Toshiaki Konoe · Michiyo Kogure · Wi Qun
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Sword for Hire
1952 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Danshirô Ichikawa · Shirley Yamaguchi
Plot Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Hayatenosuke has left behind his lover, Kano. In the camp, Hayatenosuke is...
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China Night
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Osamu Fushimizu
Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Shirley Yamaguchi · Hiroshi Akitsu · Kinji Fijuwa
Plot Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part...
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Bewitched Love of the White Wife
1956 · Movie · 103 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Shirô Toyoda
Cast Ryo Ikebe · Shirley Yamaguchi · Kaoru Yachigusa · Kichijiro Ueda
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Vow in the Desert
1940 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan
Direction Kunio Watanabe
Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Ureo Egawa · Isamu Eto · Susumu Fujita
Plot A wartime drama defending the Japanese presence in China. To paraphrase Sato Tadao in Currents in Japanese Cinema (1982): Japan's imperial adventure is mirrored in the romance between a Japanese...
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Song of the Orchid
1930 · Movie · 66 min. · Japan
Direction Kunio Watanabe
Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Noboru Kiritachi · Hisako Yamane · Sadao Maruyama
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Endless Passion
1949 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Direction Kon Ichikawa
Cast Yuji Hori · Chiaki Tsukioka · Shizuko Kasagi · Yumeji Tsukioka
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Woman of Shanghai
1952 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiko Araki · Daisuke Kato
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Escape at Dawn
1950 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Senkichi Taniguchi
Cast Ryo Ikebe · Shirley Yamaguchi · Eitarô Ozawa · Hajime Izu
Plot Mikami, a Japanese soldier serving in China, is captured by the Chinese. Although he is able to escape, his troubles are far from over. He returns to his unit but...
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Repatriation
1949 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Takeshi Sato · Kunio Watanabe
Cast Masao Inoue · Chizuko Nogami · Yuji Hori · Den Obinata
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Human Patterns
1949 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan
Direction Kon Ichikawa
Cast Ken Uehara · Shirley Yamaguchi · Chiaki Tsukioka · Yoko Kozakura
Plot This early Kon Ichikawa film marks the first time that he and noted scenarist Natto Wada worked together. The film is about a love triangle among a girl, her poor...
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Angkor Wat Story-Beautiful Sadness (Affairs in Ankuwat)
1958 · Movie · 93 min. · Cambodia
Direction Kunio Watanabe
Cast Ryo Ikebe · Kyôko Anzai · Shirley Yamaguchi · Izumi Yukimura
Plot A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess,...
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Navy Wife
1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Edward Bernds
Cast Joan Bennett · Gary Merrill · Judy Nugent · Maurice Manson
Plot Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
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Leaving a good name for posterity
1944 · Movie · 151 min. · China
Direction Bu Wancang · Weibang Ma-Xu · Yang Xiaozhong · Zhang Shankun
Cast Nancy Wan-Seung Chan · Gao Zhanfei · Wang Yin · Shirley Yamaguchi
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Geishunka
1942 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Michiyo Kogure · Toshiaki Konoe · Yoshiko Yamaguchi · Shirley Yamaguchi
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Fuun senryobune
1952 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Tomoemon Otani · Danshirô Ichikawa · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
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Military Combat Band
1944 · Movie · 62 min. · Japan
Direction Masahiro Makino
Cast Ken Uehara · Shûji Sano · Koji Mitsui · Isamu Kosugi
Plot Wartime propaganda film starring Shirley Yamaguchi/Ri Ko-ran, written by longtime Ozu collaborator Noda Kōgo. Directed by Makino Masahirō.
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