Michiyo Yasuda
Michiyo Okusu (大楠 道代, Ōkusu Michiyo, born February 27, 1946) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0091 |
| Birthday | 1946-02-27 |
| Place of Birth | Tianjin, China |
| Also Known As | Michiyo Ohkusu, Michiyo Ôkusu, Michiyo Ookusu, 安田道代, Michiyo Yasuda, |
1968
Women's Prison
10/1
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and th...
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Women's Prison
1969
Kanto Onna Gokudo
0/0
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Kanto Onna Gokudo
1969
Kanto Woman Infamy
4/1
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Kanto Woman Infamy
1969
Kanto Woman Fortitude
0/0
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Kanto Woman Fortitude
2000
Face
6.575/20
Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.
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Face
1980
Zigeunerweisen
6.552/48
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculi...
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Zigeunerweisen
1969
Lefty Fencer
4.3/6
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the fame...
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Lefty Fencer
1999
Autumn Blossoms
10/1
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Autumn Blossoms
1987
Seiko Matsuda's Sweet Memories
0/0
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Seiko Matsuda's Sweet Memories
2010
The Fallen Angel
6.5/5
The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide hi...
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The Fallen Angel
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.243/136
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to comp...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1981
Kagero-za
6.583/30
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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Kagero-za
2012
I'm Flash!
6.3/11
Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a ca...
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I'm Flash!
2011
Someday
0/0
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the perform...
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Someday
1998
The Goofball
10/1
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he re...
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The Goofball
2005
Spring Snow
6.5/4
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngster...
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Spring Snow
2003
Zatoichi
7.241/954
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by war...
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Zatoichi
1966
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
7.094/48
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
2008
The Two in Tracksuits
6.8/5
A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through t...
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The Two in Tracksuits
1991
Yumeji
6.368/34
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
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Yumeji
1987
BU・SU
6.077/13
Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. Th...
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BU・SU
1987
Shinran: Path to Purity
5.8/5
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex a...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
2003
Akame 48 Waterfalls
6.125/8
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old ro...
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
1971
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
9/1
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
2005
Hanging Garden
7.309/34
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household kno...
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Hanging Garden
1967
Love for an Idiot
5.964/14
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
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Love for an Idiot
1968
Kanto Woman Yakuza
9/2
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1969
Secrets of a Woman's Temple
8/2
A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for the horror and depravity that takes place...
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Secrets of a Woman's Temple
1968
The Sex Check
8/1
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...
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The Sex Check
1966
The Little Runaway
3/3
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated i...
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The Little Runaway
2016
The Projects
6.8/9
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a...
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The Projects
1971
Fate Deals the Card of Death
8.5/2
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year late...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
1973
Slaughter in the Snow
6/2
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the...
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Slaughter in the Snow
1966
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
6.25/12
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
1984
Location
8.5/2
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book...
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Location
1966
Freezing Point
7.167/6
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital...
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Freezing Point
1968
Woman Gambler Is Coming
7/1
Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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Woman Gambler Is Coming
1967
Assignment Dragon No. 3
7/2
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
1967
Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
0/0
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
1968
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
10/1
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
1968
The Daring Nun
8/1
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion...
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The Daring Nun
1975
Solar Eclipse
6.857/7
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
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Solar Eclipse
1972
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
7.107/14
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Man...
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1970
Born Fighter
9/1
Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.
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Born Fighter
1966
The Virgin Witness
9/1
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline...
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The Virgin Witness
1987
Bedtime Eyes
4.667/6
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black Ame...
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Bedtime Eyes
1970
Mission: Iron Castle
6.286/7
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen...
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Mission: Iron Castle
1970
Naked Ambition
8/2
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin l...
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Naked Ambition
1968
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
7/1
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1971
The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
7/1
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
1966
Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
7/1
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1966
Dianas of the Campus
0/0
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2020
I Never Shot Anyone
7/1
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ich...
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I Never Shot Anyone
1969
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
10/1
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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1969
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
8/1
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1968
Secret Report From A House Of Women
9/1
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Secret Report From A House Of Women
1968
Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison
8/1
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1964
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
0/0
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in t...
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1980
The Detective Journey
0/0
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance. Shosuke Ikashima and Ryuji...
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The Detective Journey
1969
出獄四十八時間
0/0
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1966
殺人者
0/0
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1974
Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
10/1
Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A slick crime comedy of cons and payback...
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Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
1990
Tekken
5/2
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...
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