Machiko Yashiro Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers....

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of...

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun...

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden...

1962 Japanese movie

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr....

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However,...