Yōko Minamida

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Yōko Minamida

Born 1933-03-01 Tokyo, Japan 129 films

Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo, Minamida made her screen debut in 1953 for the Daiei studio and quickly rose to stardom, working with Kenji Mizoguchi on two films: “A Story from Chikamatsu” and “Princess Yang Kwei-fei.” In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio, where she starred in Takumi Furukawa’s “Season of the Sun” (1956), a smash hit that launched the so-called “Sun Tribe”…

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Filmography

129 films
The Motive poster

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims ap…

The Motive

★ 6.9 2004

Yellow Fangs poster

Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi t…

Yellow Fangs

★ 7.1 1990

Star Ranch poster

This fairy tale depicts the heartwarming connection between a young man who has lost his memory and…

Star Ranch

★ 0.0 1987

Zero poster

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pil…

Zero

★ 6.1 1984

At Noon poster

Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at hi…

At Noon

★ 3.3 1978

Take Me Away! poster

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was no…

Take Me Away!

★ 8.0 1978

House poster

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to…

House

★ 7.3 1977

The Wild Daisy poster

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take…

The Wild Daisy

★ 9.0 1977