Ruriko Asaoka Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Set in Toyohashi, the fifth and final installment of the ‘The Wanderer’ series sees Kobayashi Akira delve into the mystery of a friend's...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable...

The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaoka) was at a contemporary art exhibition at the...

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out in Hakodate to wait for her... A mood action...

A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

This coming-of-age drama depicts Ozaki, Takei, Minami, and Onoki, four men trained in the rugby club and brimming with intelligence and a sense of...

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion...

Based on the collection of letters by Ozaki Hidemi, who was implicated in the Sorge spy incident, the film depicts the bond between a husband and...

Film by Buichi Saitô

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

A young girl travels to Ginza and fulfills her dream of singing to help the children of a poor orphanage and is mistaken for the missing...