Best movies of Sayuri Yoshinaga

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Jûzô Itami, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazuo Kitamura, Jun'ya Katô, Kirin Kiki,

A young boy has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuriko Ishida, Ryo Kase, Yû Aoi,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

Ginko seems to be living the good life: She's the respectable owner of a neighborhood drug store in Tokyo, and her daughter Koharu is about to get married to a doctor. However, Koharu's ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tôru Kazama, Morio Kazama, Yûki Amami,
Directors : Tonkô Horikawa,

Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kiyokazu Kanze, Tesshô Genda,
Directors : Kôzô Morishita,

2005 years ago in India, a boy named Siddhartha Gautama of the kingdom Shakya is born. When Siddhartha was born there was a prophecy that the boy would become a king of all the kingdoms. At...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano, Haru Kuroki, Kazunari Ninomiya,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when the Americans dropped an ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tamio Kawaji, Shinako Nakagawa, Yoshiko Nezu,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Eijirô Tôno, Shôichi Ozawa,
Directors : Kirio Urayama,

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Eiji Gô, Hideki Takahashi, Yuki Aresa,
Directors : Katsumi Nishikawa,

Adapted from a famous short story in Japan, The Izu Dancer is the story of a male teenager on vacation in the Izu peninsula who encounters a thirteen-year-old girl who is part of a ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Mitsuo Hamada, Nijiko Kiyokawa,
Directors : Kenjirô Morinaga,

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa, Akira Nakao,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

One morning, Kazue (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop where she works and breaks all the records she is carrying. The driver of...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Masako Izumi, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mayumi Ogawa, Kirin Kiki, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Kirio Urayama,

The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hideki Noda, Takuzô Kawatani, Kirin Kiki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Tomomi Satô, Ryûzô Hayashi,
Directors : Shin'ichirô Sawai,

Takanosuke Ushio and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in ...