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

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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

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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

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Endless Passion

1949 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

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Woman of Shanghai

1952 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

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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

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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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Geishunka

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

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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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