Yoko Minakaze
Known For & Full Filmography29 Titles
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Oryū
TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Ishiguro's wife
A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of two brothers and their parents; a family with a father and a daughter who are not well organized; and a girl who has moved from the countryside to Tokyo to live alone in the whirlwind of the big city, desperately trying to survive.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Hiroko's mother
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Shidu Nonomura
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Katsuko Tojo
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Madam of the Rubicon bar
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Shiro's mother
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Harue
This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small factory to support his family. The friendship that had blossomed between them eventually grew into love. Yet the purer it was, the more it seemed destined for a tragic conclusion...
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Hojo's wife, Yoshie
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Ms. Shiraki
Remake of 1949 film
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Yukiko Koshima
In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens Yukiko's warmth but also sparks intense jealousy when Nemoto shows Keiko kindness. As the two bond over a shared hometown, Yukiko's resentment grows. The situation is compounded by the escalating chaos of a losing war, including air raids, medicine shortages, and a deadly malaria outbreak that weakens Keiko. Set against the backdrop of Japan’s impending defeat, Yukiko is forced to confront the high cost of her envy and decide where her loyalties lie in a final test of courage and compassion.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Film by Deme Masanobu
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Norimi Tanioka
In Hokkaido, Kunigama. Reiko (Akagi) met Katsura, on a quiet and lonely late autumn evening, before the harsh and fierce winter was to come. Reiko was 21 years old, working for a small mobile theater troupe. She knew from the beginning that Katsura had a wife and children. Katsura's relationship with Reiko, half openly and half secretly, was partly due to and partly an excuse for his wife, Akiko (Kusabi),'s infidelity. Reiko was always honest with her heart. She became friends with Katsura's daughter and even made friends with Akiko.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sase), the son of a doctor in Suwa, and Nobuko (Mayuki Kirihara), the daughter of a weaver in Kyoto, are transferred to the class of Omura (Chiemi Eri), a PE teacher at Shinonoi Asahi High School, a private school for troubled children. The school principal (Hiroyuki Nagato) says that the school's policy of "not letting anyone drop out of school" must be upheld, and Omura struggles to do everything in his power to respond. Based on a true story by Shigeta Wakabayashi, an education critic, the film depicts the relationship between a student abandoned by his parents and a teacher who sincerely deals with them.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ichiro, who works for a shipping company, causes an accident while driving drunk. His younger brother Jiro questions his brother's drinking habits. Upon investigation, Ichiro discovers that his brother is involved in drug trafficking.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.