Ryūko Azuma
14-year Ryuko debuted in "Yoake" from Kawai Film Company. Two years later she made appearances in three films starred 27-year Ichikawa Tomonsuke who has distribution partnership with Kawai. In 11 years when Kawai Films became Daito Films and later Daiei, Ryuko appeared in 215 films. From 1955 to 1965 Ryuko Azuma and her husband Kusuo Abe work for Toei films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.304 |
| Birthday | 1917-01-10 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Ryûko Azuma, 東竜子, |
1964
Blind Monk Swordsman
0/0
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death”...
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Blind Monk Swordsman
1959
Bride of Peacock Castle
7.5/2
Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000 kok...
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Bride of Peacock Castle
1962
Ōedo no taka
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ōedo no taka
1951
Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind
0/0
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind
1951
Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
0/0
film directed by Tai Katô
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
1956
Scramble for Fortune
5/4
A young man and a woman are on a mission to protect a mysterious mirror that hides the secrets of a great fortune.
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Scramble for Fortune
1965
Three Yakuza
7.8/4
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each pa...
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Three Yakuza
1969
Brothers Serving Time
8/1
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. T...
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Brothers Serving Time
1972
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
6.778/9
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and hi...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972
Hikage-Mono
9/1
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Hikage-Mono
1952
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
10/1
The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokudani, a place along his journey through various prov...
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
1952
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
0/0
At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin, Lor...
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
1958
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
6.5/4
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi...
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Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
1963
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
8/1
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
1956
鍔鳴浪人
0/0
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鍔鳴浪人
1970
Jûroku-sai no keiken
1/1
Pinku from 1970.
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Jûroku-sai no keiken
1963
Love And Order
0/0
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Love And Order
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.374/119
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1937
Utsunomiya tsuritenjō
0/0
Japanese horror movie from 1937.
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Utsunomiya tsuritenjō
1965
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
7.5/2
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
7/6
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1936
Tenjiku Tokubei
0/0
Japanese horror movie from 1936.
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Tenjiku Tokubei
1951
Jūrokumon karasudō: Sennin higan
0/0
Japanese film.
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Jūrokumon karasudō: Sennin higan
1972
Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
7.286/7
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
1969
Yakuza on Foot
7.5/2
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, thing...
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Yakuza on Foot
1984
The Story of a Man Among Men
6/1
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
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The Story of a Man Among Men
1975
The International Gang of Kobe
5.7/6
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international g...
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The International Gang of Kobe
1972
The Pledge
5.833/6
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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The Pledge
1975
Death at an Old Mansion
6.308/13
A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is u...
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Death at an Old Mansion
1977
The Story of a Geisha
7/1
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
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The Story of a Geisha
1967
Three Gamblers
8.5/4
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
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Three Gamblers
1981
Samurai Reincarnation
5.89/41
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Sata...
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Samurai Reincarnation
1968
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
9/3
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns hersel...
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
1961
Bride of White Castle
8/2
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.
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Bride of White Castle
1959
An Actor's Revenge
6/2
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid ex...
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An Actor's Revenge
1965
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
8.4/5
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure y...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
1969
The Cross of Vengeance
8/1
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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The Cross of Vengeance
1968
Gambling Den's Master Clan
7/1
Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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Gambling Den's Master Clan
1960
Case of a Young Lord 8
9/1
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's Cou...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
1974
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
5.574/47
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crosse...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
1962
Sakura Official
7/2
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his...
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Sakura Official
1963
Road In the Mist
5/1
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death.
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Road In the Mist
1962
Shimmering Sword
0/0
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Shimmering Sword
1963
Blind Wolf
0/0
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Blind Wolf
1967
Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
0/0
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.
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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
1966
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
9/1
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
6.75/4
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsu...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1961
Little Tengu
10/1
A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.
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Little Tengu
1971
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
9/1
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the ninth and last film in the Duty of Brotherhoo...
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The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1960
Rumble Festival
0/0
1960 Toei film
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Rumble Festival
1977
Japanese Humanity and Justice
7/2
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
1965
The Gambler
0/0
A crime film released in 1965
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The Gambler
1958
Noble Tasuke
6/1
The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted when...
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Noble Tasuke
1963
Tenamonya Sandogasa
0/0
The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jirocho of Shimizu and becoming the strongest in Japan...
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Tenamonya Sandogasa
1957
Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case
0/0
The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.
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Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case
1965
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
8/1
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
1937
Iwami Jūtarō
0/0
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Iwami Jūtarō
1956
Case of a Young Lord 1
0/0
As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Shogun), pawned his family heirloom, a valuable Gosu...
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Case of a Young Lord 1
1956
Case of a Young Lord 2
0/0
After getting permission to dig up the pawnbroker's grave, Young lord samurai was surprised to find the body was missing, as was the Gosu plate. He ha...
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Case of a Young Lord 2
1962
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
8.167/3
In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princess who is in search of a missing scroll that belo...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
1969
Kanto Street Peddlers
0/0
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into c...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
1971
The Path of the King
6.5/2
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to r...
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The Path of the King
1966
Koto—The Lake of Tears
7.2/5
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings,...
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