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...
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.
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
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
1973 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuharu Hasebe
Cast Meiko Kaji · Masakazu Tamura · Yumi Kanei · Hiroshi Tsukata
5.8
64 votes
5.8
64 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
Direction Ishirô Honda
Cast Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Ken Uehara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara
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Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Seduction
1964 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Ikehiro
Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Saburo Date · Shinjirô Asano · Jun Hamamura
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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
Direction Toshio Sugie
Cast Akira Takarada · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kyôko Anzai
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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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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? : An Encounter
1975 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan
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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