Yoshie Kihira
Known For & Full Filmography30 Titles
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Maid of the Kamiya family
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Nurse A
A young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen years later, it is revealed to be a hellish prophecy when a strange package containing an empty coffin mysteriously turns up at a nearby lake.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Fusa
During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers. After heartbreak and tragedy in the snow, she departs renewed, ready to begin again.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Kawano
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Sightseeing woman (uncredited)
Men are being murdered by a killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Uzumaki Maid
A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past corruption and starts anew.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Nursery Caretaker
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.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Landlady
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman. She refuses, believing she already loves a man she once briefly met on a train. Unbeknownst to her, that man is Keisuke himself. A mix-up with photos leads to misunderstandings, but on the eve of his departure for America, the truth comes to light, and the two reunite just in time.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1962 Japanese movie
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Airline Passenger (uncredited)
A silly yet skilled Interpol agent flies to Tokyo and gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy marriage after the war, in pursuit of a wild and pure Japanese man. Three gorgeous 39-year-old single women who are in the same situation get excited about each other’s love affairs. Adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Maid (Manman)
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a lost hotel contract. Redemption comes when they restore a fire-damaged department store, earning overdue payment and a morale boost.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By the time they resume business, the target property is lost to a rival—forcing an abrupt return to Japan with both deals and relationships unresolved.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a world-renowned fashion designer.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Maid
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.