Cast: Akemi Negishi

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


Red Beard

1965 · Movie · 180 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by...

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8.3

5K votes

8.3

5K votes

Anatahan (The Saga of Anatahan)

1953 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Akemi Negishi · Tadashi Suganuma · Kisaburo Sawamura · Shôji Nakayama

Plot Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay about twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for...

7.2

209 votes

7.2

209 votes

A Wife's Heart

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Akemi Negishi

Plot A young married woman wants to raise enough money to open her own cafe. She gets a loan to fulfill her dream. The arrival of her husband's brother will disrupt...

7.2

89 votes

7.2

89 votes

Lady Snowblood

1973 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Toshio Kurosawa · Masaaki Daimon · Miyoko Akaza

Plot Follows the story of the titular assassin seeking vengeance upon the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father.

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7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Lower Depths

1957 · Movie · 137 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Kyôko Kagawa · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire,...

7.1

837 votes

7.1

837 votes

Sudden Rain

1956 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Keiju Kobayashi · Shûji Sano · Akemi Negishi

Plot Sudden Rain dwells on how the negative aspects of married life can become overwhelming and quite stressful. Setsuko Hara plays a woman whose entire existence seems to boil down to...

6.9

51 votes

6.9

51 votes

18 Roughs

1963 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Tamotsu Hayakawa · Yoshiko Kayama · Gannosuke Ashiya · Yôko Mihara

Plot A drama about a clash between a responsible lodging house caretaker and a collective protagonist in the form of a pack of adolescents.

6.7

32 votes

6.7

32 votes

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rie Yokoyama · Isao Natsuyagi · Fumio Watanabe

Plot After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to...), Matsushima...

6.6

324 votes

6.6

324 votes

Sex and Fury

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Christina Lindberg · Akemi Negishi · Ryôko Ema

Plot Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father's murder, and...

6.1

243 votes

6.1

243 votes

King Kong vs. Godzilla

1962 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tadao Takashima · Kenji Sahara · Yu Fujiki · Ichirô Arishima

Plot A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

4.8

731 votes

4.8

731 votes

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart

1957 · Movie · min. · Japan

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Happiness of Us Alone

1961 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiju Kobayashi · Sen Hara · Michiko Araki

Plot After losing her husband, Akiko, a young deaf woman, meets and marries a deaf and dumb man who falls for her. Despite their lack of financial resources and the burden...

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Distant Thunder

1981 · Movie · 135 min. · Japan

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Johnny Okura · Eri Ishida · Rie Yokoyama

Plot A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his...

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Play It Cool

1970 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Yusuke Kawazu · Akemi Negishi · Kô Nishimura

Plot Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a 19-year-old enrolled in a dress-making school. Her mother (Negishi Akemi) has raised her by working in a bar. One day Yumi is raped by one...

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Three Young Men and a Dream Girl

1956 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

1958 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth G. Crane · Ishirô Honda

Cast John Carradine · Russell Thorson · Robert Karnes · Morris Ankrum

Plot Japanese villagers worship a monster and his son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster and wind...

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Direction Kenji Yoshioa

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yôko Takahashi · Akemi Negishi

Plot Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the...

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Half Human

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Akemi Negishi · Momoko Kôchi · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot A yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji. Directed by Ishirō Honda in 1955, the film was re-edited and dubbed in English in a 1958 U.S. release version called...

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Not rated