Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

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


The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode

1974 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Gorô Ibuki · Nobuo Kaneko · Kinya Kitaoji · Jô Shishido

Plot The war for control of the streets is over, but a new Yakuza faction rises up from the ashes, as the gangsters who survived the carnage of "Police Tactics," including...

7.1

219 votes

7.1

219 votes

Story of a Prostitute

1965 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yumiko Nogawa · Isao Tamagawa · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the...

6.8

142 votes

6.8

142 votes

Hokuriku Proxy War

1977 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yumiko Nogawa · Mikio Narita · Yôko Takahashi

Plot In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows the battles among...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Gate of Flesh

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Satako Kasai · Yumiko Nogawa · Kayo Matsuo

Plot In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post? World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance...

6.6

497 votes

6.6

497 votes

The Pleasures of the Flesh

1965 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Mariko Kaga · Yumiko Nogawa · Masako Yagi

Plot Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man...

6.3

79 votes

6.3

79 votes

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Hissatsu shiokinin (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Matsumoto · Masahisa Sadanaga · Eiichi Kudo · Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Yumiko Nogawa · Makoto Fujita · Takayuki Akutagawa

Plot TV series (1973). A group of common merchants in Edo city(Tokyo) in the mid-1800s is really a band of assassins available for hire. Each assassin has his own unique killing...

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Easy Money

1970 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

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Tenamonya Tôkaidô

1966 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

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Cat Girls Gamblers: Naked Flesh Paid Into the Pot

1965 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Hideaki Nitani · Tatsuya Fuji · Ryuji Kita

Plot Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased...

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The Hitman

1967 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yumiko Nogawa · Mikio Narita · Mayumi Nagisa

Plot The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan. While working as a cook in a restaurant he also earns some...

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Cat Girls Gamblers

1965 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Hideaki Nitani · Ichiro Sugai · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot The first in a series of movies about a female yakuza.

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Carmen from Kawachi

1966 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Kôji Wada · Tamio Kawaji · Chikako Miyagi

Plot Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion...

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Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack

1967 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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The Geisha House

1999 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Maki Miyamoto · Sumiko Fuji · Kaho Minami · Masahiko Tsugawa

Plot Japan, 1958. The Japanese government is about to introduce and enforce the Anti-Prostitution Act, effectively outlawing prostitution. But the new laws do not have any effect on the Fujinoya Geisha...

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Killer's Mission

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Junko Toda · Tomoko Mayama · Yumiko Nogawa

Plot A shogunate secret agent is sent to investigate a secret deal with a Dutch warship involving repeating rifles to be used in an uprising against the Shogun, but finds there's...

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Three She-Cats

1966 · Movie · 79 min. · Japan

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Kigeki ekimae kaiun

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

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Okinawa jû-nen sensô

1978 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Sonny Chiba · Yumiko Nogawa · Makoto Satô

Plot After World War II when Okinawa was under control of the US, the local Yakuza prospered. But when the island was returned to Japan, the mainland Yakuza tries to take...

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Ruten no umi

1990 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Yûko Asano · Katsuyo Asari · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father.

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