
Yumeko Aizome, born Yachiyo Yokoyama, is a Japanese actress. In 1942, she married two-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Masanori Yusa (1915-1975) and they received a daughter Makoto. She is now and actress called Naoko Yusa.
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When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

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The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Film about Ghost-cat.

A 1948 Japanese film.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden.

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.
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