Cast: Junko Kano

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


The Black Test Car

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Junko Kano · Eiji Funakoshi · Hideo Takamatsu

Plot This film noir from Japan is quite an interesting little genre movie. Shot beautifully in black and white, the film is concerned with the moral decrepitude that results from corporate...

6.7

64 votes

6.7

64 votes

Odd Obsession

1959 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Kano

Plot A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

6.6

87 votes

6.6

87 votes

Across Darkness

1959 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Sô Yamamura · Junko Kano · Osamu Takizawa

Plot A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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Buddha

1961 · Movie · 152 min. · Japan

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Kojiro Hongo · Charito Solis · Shintarô Katsu · Machiko Kyô

Plot Shaka is an epic tale about the life of Buddha Shakamuni.

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Nusumareta endan

1958 · Movie · 54 min. · Japan

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Tokyo onigiri musume

1961 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ganjiro Nakamura · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Keizo Kawasaki

Plot When the tailor Tsuruyoshi retires, his daughter Mariko reforms the place and transforms it into a bar. Mariko has three suitors, but doesn't know which one to decide on.

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Black Lizard

1962 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Machiko Kyô · Minoru Oki · Junko Kano · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot A jeweler hires detective Akechi to find his daughter kidnapped by a famous thief known as the Black Lizard.

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Yûrakuchô de aimashô

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Machiko Kyô · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kenji Sugawara · Hitomi Nozoe

Plot Designer Aya Koganaki, whose last collection has been a great success, meets engineer Rentaro Shinohara on the train back to Tokyo, but the man only shows indifference and she feels...

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Ittôsai wa sebangô 6

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

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Bôfûken

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

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Katei no jijô

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

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Flood

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shin Saburi · Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Junko Kano

Plot The development of a revolutionary adhesive pushes chemical engineer Sahei Sanada to the top of his company overnight. This success comes at the price of Sanada's personal life, however, as...

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Onna no tsurihashi

1961 · Movie · 79 min. · Japan

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All the Songs We Never Sang

2023 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Chris Rudz

Cast Nagako Asai · Nozomi de Lencquesaing · Daiki Hiba · Satoshi Ikeda

Plot Rebellious teenager Natsumi arrives from Tokyo on a small provincial island in search of the treasure left by her deceased mother.

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Life of a Woman

1962 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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Mahiru no wana

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Junko Kano · Hideo Takamatsu · Eitarô Ozawa

Plot On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest.

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The Invisible Human and the Fly Man

1957 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Murayama

Cast Ryuuji Shinagawa · Yoshiro Kitahara · Junko Kano · Ikuko Môri

Plot Sugumoto finds a chemical to shrink a man into the size of a fly. He tries to use it for his venageance against those who framed him as a war...

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The Black Report

1963 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ken Utsui · Junko Kano · Hideo Takamatsu · Shigeru Kôyama

Plot Yasuzo Masumura based his story on prize winning Edogawa Ranpo's book [Hanayaka na shitai]. It's a thriller about a Food Company's boss being killed and the search for his murderer....

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Typhoon Reporter

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ken Utsui · Jiro Tamiya · Junko Kano · Horikawa Yuzô

Plot Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene,...

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