Kaori Momoi

The Brightest Roof in the Universe (2020)

Tsubame (Kaya Kiyohara) is a 14-year-old girl. She has a crush on university student Toru (Kentaro Ito), who lives in the same neighborhood. Tsubame lives in a warm environment with her father Toshio (Hidetaka Yoshioka) and stepmother Asako (Maki Sakai), but, one day, she learns that Asako is pregnant. She feels left out because of her stepmother's pregnancy and she also feels ...

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Michihito Fujii

Stars: Maki Sakai | Kaori Momoi | Hidetaka Yoshioka | Kaya Kiyohara | Kentaro

Magic Kimono (2017)

As: Keiko

Japanese woman Keiko (played by Kaori Momoi (Marshall's "Memoirs of a Geisha", Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django")) has been living in a shelf for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe and is not able to bid farewell to her past. Without a passion she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show. Unintentionally Keiko has been pulled in a vortex of ...

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Māris Martinsons

Stars: Andris Keiss | Kaori Momoi | Arturs Skrastins | Issei Ogata | Ieva Florence

La habitación (2017)

The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of Mexico through the decades. La Habitación will reunite eight directors that will expose the reality of each historical period resulting in a profound and inspiring portrait of modern Mexico.

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Alejandro Valle | Carlos Carrera | Ernesto Contreras | Natalia Beristáin | Patricia Arriaga-Jordán | Alfonso Pineda Ulloa | Carlos Bolado | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Iván Ávila Dueñas

Stars: Dagoberto Gama | Irène Jacob | Francisco Barreiro | Sofía Espinosa | Eugenia Tempesta

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

As: Hairi

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Rupert Sanders

Stars: Chin Han | Takeshi Kitano | Pilou Asbæk | Scarlett Johansson | Michael Pitt

Greetings from Fukushima (2016)

As: Satomi

A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Doris Dörrie

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Rosalie Thomass | Nami Kamata | Kurumi Aizawa

Candy Boys (2015)

As: Narrator (voice)

In Edo, the fabulous wonderland where only men exist, the most beautiful courtesan is Dayu Shiratori. His apprentice’s suicide made him desolate, and he finds love when he meets the most popular and sexy candy boy, Furimatsu, at the “Candy Shop.” However, the town of Edo bans romantic relationships, and a rare disease starts to spread.

Runtime: 79 min.

Directed by: Leona Hirota

Stars: Shohei Nanba | Atsushi Hashimoto | Akihiro Mayama | Hiromu Takahashi | Jun Watanabe

Oh Lucy! (2014)

As: Setsuko / Lucy

Setsuko, a 55-year-old single 'office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, 'Lucy,' by her young unconventional English instructor. 'Lucy' awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains--herself.

Runtime: 21 min.

Directed by: Atsuko Hirayanagi

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Miyoko Yamaguchi | Billy Scott

OKI - In the Middle of the Ocean (2014)

As: Oki

Psychological thriller connecting three different people in the mysterious vortex, trying to untangle the dramatic fight of border between the truth and fantasy.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Māris Martinsons

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Hannah Levien | Daniel Messier | Andris Bulis | William Goldstein

Emperor (2012)

As: Mitsuko Kajima

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Peter Webber

Stars: Eriko Hatsune | Tommy Lee Jones | Kaori Momoi | Matthew Fox | Masayoshi Haneda

Helter Skelter (2012)

As: Hiroko Tada

Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress, and singer. However, soon, her body, unable to withstand the burdens of surgery, begins to crumble, and along with it so does her mind, as she plummets towards a frightening and inevitable end.

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Mika Ninagawa

Stars: Kiko Mizuhara | Shinobu Terajima | Erika Sawajiri | Anne Suzuki | Yosuke Kubozuka

3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)

As: (segment "Heartquake")

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Runtime: 75 min.

Directed by: Bong Joon-ho | Takushi Nishinaka | Naomi Kawase | Jia Zhangke | Víctor Erice | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Steven Sebring | So Yong Kim | Pedro González-Rubio | Kazuhiro Sôda | Kaori Momoi | Ariel Rotter | Jonas Mekas | Toyoko Yamasaki | Shunji Dodo | Zhao Ye | Catherine Cadou | Leslie Kee | Mohd Naguib Razak | Wisut Ponnimit | Isaki Lacuesta

Stars: Jonas Mekas | Kaori Momoi | Ana Torrent | Go Ah-sung | Zhao Tao

Toriko 3D Movie: Kaimaku! Gourmet Adventure!! (2011)

Teran Plains' village was attacked by a giant starving Gerold, and the village's youngster, Peck, sought Toriko for help. But lying ahead in wait is something much more ferocious and hideous than just a Gerold.

Runtime: 40 min.

Directed by: Junji Shimizu

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Ryotaro Okiayu | Tetsuya Kakihara | Romi Park

Hong Kong Confidential (2010)

As: Amaya

One week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Māris Martinsons

Stars: Hui Siu-Hung | Kaori Momoi | Monie Tung | Andrius Mamontovas | Lau Dan

Last Chestnuts (2010)

One day, a mother who used to be hospitalized in Tokyo comes to Kashihara city in Nara prefecture to find her son. But the only clue she has is the digital camera which her son forgot at the hospital.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Zhao Ye

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Shigeki Uda | Setsuko Dodo

USB (2009)

Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear his debts by signing up for a dangerous medical experiment...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Shûtarô Oku

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Kentaro Kishi | Kazunobu Mineta | Namiko Hatori | Junko Emoto

Yume no mani mani (2008)

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Takeo Kimura

Stars: Rie Miyazawa | Masatoshi Nagase | Hiroyuki Nagato | Ineko Arima | Yoshio Inoue

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

As: Ruriko

Several hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, the Genji and Heike clans face off again in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. A revolver-wielding stranger, a lone gunman, burdened with emotional scars and blessed with incredible skill, drifts into town and crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services ...

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa | Yusuke Iseya | Kaori Momoi | Koichi Sato | Hideaki Ito

The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi (2007)

As: the President of Toraoh

Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi. As the title clearly states, pride of place goes to juicy, bite-sized meat, and viewers will get a delightful eyeful of food, food, and more food in this fabulously fulfilling gourmet comedy. Reveling in Japan's love for food-themed shows, the film revolves around a culinary ...

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Su-yeon Gu

Stars: Ai Maeda | Arata Iura | Kaori Momoi | Ryuhei Matsuda | Yu Yamada

Love and Honor (2006)

As: Ine Hatano

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Yôji Yamada

Stars: Takashi Sasano | Takuya Kimura | Kaori Momoi | Nenji Kobayashi | Rei Dan

Ichijiku no kao (2006)

Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Kaori Momoi

Stars: Ken Mitsuishi | Katsumi Takahashi | Kaori Momoi | Hanako Yamada | Saburo Ishikura

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

As: Mother

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Runtime: 145 min.

Directed by: Rob Marshall

Stars: Ken Watanabe | Michelle Yeoh | Suzuka Ohgo | Gong Li | Zhang Ziyi

The Sun (2005)

As: Empress Kojun

The Sun (Russian: Сóлнце, Solntse) is a 2005 Russian biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Aleksandr Sokurov

Stars: Shirô Sano | Kaori Momoi | Robert Dawson | Issei Ogata | Dmitriy Podnozov

The Many Faces of Chika (2005)

Director Kazuo Hara tells the tale of the eponymous Chika and four different relationships she has during the turbulent political climate of the 1970s. Four different actresses play the role of Chika in order to emphasise the different ways she is perceived by her husband, a teacher, a student and an aging gangster.

Directed by: Kazuo Hara

Stars: Makiko Watanabe | Daisuke Iijima | Kaori Momoi | Kumija Kim | Yoshikazu Kotani

Izo (2004)

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

Runtime: 128 min.

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Hiroki Matsukata | Kazuya Nakayama | Ryôsuke Miki | Ryuhei Matsuda

Crossfire (2000)

As: Chikako Ishizu, the Detective

Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the police don't arrest him. Junko tells Kazuki about her powers and takes revenge

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Shusuke Kaneko

Stars: Ryûji Harada | Kaori Momoi | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Hidenori Tokuyama | Hisashi Yoshizawa

The Island Tales (2000)

As: Marianne

A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them to overlook their preconceptions of one another, and they forge a kinship that goes to the heart their identities.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Stanley Kwan

Stars: Michelle Reis | Kaori Momoi | Elaine Jin | Shu Qi | Takao Osawa

Tadon and Chikuwa (1998)

A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Jun Ichikawa

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Hiroyuki Sanada | Jinpachi Nezu | Satoko Abe | Koji Yakusho

Daikaijū Tōkyō ni arawaru (1998)

A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder ...

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Takeshi Miyasaka

Stars: Kazue Tsunogae | Yumi Yoshiyuki | Kaori Momoi | Yumi Nishiyama | Hirotaro Honda

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

As: Takako Nakaura

A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko decides she wants the name of her character to be Mary Jane and not Ritsuko. That leads to the chain of events which changes the play completely.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Koki Mitani

Stars: Masahiko Nishimura | Keiko Toda | Toshiaki Karasawa | Toshiyuki Hosokawa | Kyoka Suzuki

Bounce Ko Gals (1997)

As: Saki

Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku is a street dancer, and Togo was brought up in the US and back in Japan for one year wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakusa places them in danger.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Masato Harada

Stars: Jun Murakami | Kaori Momoi | Hitomi Satô | Shin Yazawa | Yasue Sato

Tokyo Lullaby (1997)

As: Tami Ohsawa

Hamanaka Koichi (Nagatsuka Kyozo) returns to his wife Hisako (Baisho Mitsuko) and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura (Kamikawa Takaya), who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, ...

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Jun Ichikawa

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Kyôzô Nagatsuka | Takaya Kamikawa | Satoko Abe | Mitsuko Baisho

Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)

Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their fortune. The city is called Yentown, and it is much like Tokyo. Sixteen-year-old Ageha (Ito), a young girl whose mother has just died, is passed on from person to person until a prostitute named Glico (Chara) finally takes pity on ...

Runtime: 148 min.

Directed by: Shunji Iwai

Stars: Hiroshi Mikami | Chara | Atsuro Watabe | Ayumi Ito | Yosuke Eguchi

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)

As: Fujimoto's mother

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Jun Ichikawa

Stars: Arata Furuta | Sadao Abe | Masahiro Motoki | Kazuo Hara | Ryôichi Inaba

The Girl of Silence (1995)

As: Akemi Tanaka

14-year-old Shizuko (Mami Nakamura) dreams of drawing manga in Tokyo to escape her life of poverty and loneliness. Shizuko’s father has left the family, and her mother (Kaori Momoi) — who is desperate for money — takes in an icy, brutal lover (Michio Akiyama) who insists on being called “Father.” He is obsessed with having a “high-class” family and forbids Shizuko to ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Genjiro Arato

Stars: Yoshio Harada | Kaori Momoi | Masaaki Daimon | Michio Akiyama | Mami Nakamura

Like a Rolling Stone (1994)

Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Tanaka is not an archetypal yakuza; he travels by public transport. But he does have two mistresses: Ayumi, who runs a nightclub, and Yoshie, a brothel-keeper. When Tanaka's boss ends up in hospital, ...

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Stars: Eiko Nagashima | Reiko Takashima | Sho Aikawa | Eiji Okuda | Hakuryu

Boku wa tenshi ja naiyo (1991)

Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Morio Agata

Stars: Morio Agata | Kaori Momoi | Mako Midori | Tadanori Yokoo | Eiichi Ohtaki

Onna ga ichiban niau shokugyo (1990)

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Naosuke Kurosawa

Stars: Isao Hashizume | Kaori Momoi | Masatō Ibu | Hakuryu | Kenichi Okamoto

Ready to Shoot (1990)

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Kōji Wakamatsu

Stars: Akaji Maro | Yoshio Harada | Kaori Momoi

Tomorrow (1988)

As: Tsuruko Miura

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in ...

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Kazuo Kuroki

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Hiroyuki Nagato | Arthur Kuroda | Kaho Minami | Nobuko Sendo

Love Bites Back (1988)

As: Chikako Koga

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Stars: Mitsuru Hirata | Kimiko Yo | Kaori Momoi | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Yoshihiro Katô

The Yen Family (1988)

Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Yojiro Takita

Stars: Akira Emoto | Kaori Momoi | Takeshi Kaga | Mitsunori Isaki | Hiromi Iwasaki

Hawaiian Dream (1987)

As: Reiko Caine

Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, who have flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking marijuana under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Tôru Kawashima

Stars: Tamlyn Tomita | Saburo Tokito | Taiji Tonoyama | Johnny Okura | Jun Tatara

No More Comics! (1986)

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Yojiro Takita

Stars: Takeshi Kitano | Rikiya Yasuoka | Hiromi Gô | Yumi Asou | Yuya Uchida

Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis! (1986)

The story revolves around a hardcore Onyanko Club fanatic who decides he wants to kill the girls to prevent the young, cute idols from getting old and married - in a sense, to preserve their youth for eternity.

Runtime: 78 min.

Directed by: Masato Harada

Stars: Sayuri Kokushô | Eri Nitta | Aki Kihara | Mika Nagoya | Satomi Fukunaga

メイン・テーマ (1984)

As: Kayoko Ise

One day, kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Yoshimitsu Morita

Stars: Hiroko Yakushimaru | Hironobu Nomura | Kazuo Zaitsu | Machiko Watanabe | Hiromi Ōta

Kidnapping Blues (1982)

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man has no conscience of being a kidnapper. He asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she’s with him. During their trip they will meet various people. But they always have to go further, or the man would to get arrested...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Shinpei Asai

Stars: Yumiko Fujita | Nobuko Miyamoto | Hôsei Komatsu | Juzo Itami | Takuzô Kawatani

Suspicion (1982)

As: Kumako Onizawa

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce ...

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Yoshitaro Nomura

Stars: Akira Emoto | Kaori Momoi | Shima Iwashita | Kyôko Maya | Takeshi Kaga

Gate of Youth 2 (1982)

As: Kaoru

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Runtime: 137 min.

Directed by: Koreyoshi Kurahara

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Kaoru Sugita | Koichi Sato | Tsunehiko Watase

Eijanaika (1981)

As: Ine

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Kokyo, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in ...

Runtime: 151 min.

Directed by: Shōhei Imamura

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Norihei Miki | Shigeru Izumiya | Masao Kusakari | Ken Ogata

Until Evening (1980)

As: Sugiko Emori

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Kazuo Kuroki

Stars: Mariko Kaga | Miyako Yamaguchi | Kaori Momoi | Haruko Mabuchi | Juzo Itami

Kagemusha (1980)

As: Otsuyanokata

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable. But he finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions.

Runtime: 180 min.

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki | Tatsuya Nakadai | Hideji Ôtaki | Jinpachi Nezu | Kenichi Hagiwara

No More Easy Life (1979)

As: Mariko

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, ...

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Yōichi Higashi

Stars: Eiji Okuda | Kaori Momoi | Leo Morimoto | Juzo Itami | Sakura Kamo

Tora-san, the Matchmaker (1979)

As: Hitomi

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Yôji Yamada

Stars: Chieko Baishô | Kaori Momoi | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Masami Shimojô | Chieko Misaki

Baby Given by God (1979)

As: Sayoko Morisaki

Film released in December 1979

Runtime: 91 min.

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Shigeru Izumiya | Kanjûrô Arashi | Tsunehiko Watase | Ikuzo Yoshi

The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)

As: Akemi Ogawa

The story starts with Kinya, who has recently upgraded his car. He’s a young adult and he’s single so naturally he uses his ride to ahem, look for companions. He offers a ride to a shy girl by the name of Akemi and she reluctantly accepts. From the get go, sexual tension is apparent, but things get a bit easier as the two become acquainted. They pick up Yusaku, a 30-something coal miner with a reserved ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Yôji Yamada

Stars: Chieko Baishô | Kaori Momoi | Ken Takakura | Hachiro Tako | Tetsuya Takeda

The Youth Killer (1976)

As: Ikuko Ishikawa

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

Runtime: 132 min.

Directed by: Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Stars: Yutaka Mizutani | Ryôhei Uchida | Mieko Harada | Kazuko Shirakawa | Etsuko Ichihara

Light of Africa (1975)

As: Fujiko

Two semi-slackers (Kenichi Hagiwara and Kunie Tanaka) with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Yoko Takahashi | Kenichi Hagiwara | Tôru Minegishi

Invitation of Lust (1975)

Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Masao Kusakari | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Yoko Takahashi | Janet Hatta

The Assassination of Ryoma (1974)

As: Tae

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Kazuo Kuroki

Stars: Renji Ishibashi | Yoshio Harada | Kaori Momoi | Rie Nakagawa | Keisuke Noro

Bitterness of Youth (1974)

As: Tomiko Ohashi

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Kawarasaki Kenzo | Leo Morimoto | Fumi Dan | Kenichi Hagiwara

Sweet Scent of Eros (1973)

As: Etsuko

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.

Runtime: 75 min.

Directed by: Toshiya Fujita

Stars: Kaori Momoi | Chôei Takahashi | Hiroshi Gojo | Mamoru Tsuyuki | Hajime Tanimoto

Akai tori nigeta? (1973)

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Toshiya Fujita

Stars: Yoshio Harada | Kaori Momoi | Taiji Tonoyama | Asao Uchida | Masaaki Daimon

Lost Lovers (1971)

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Kunio Shimizu | Sôichirô Tahara

Stars: Renji Ishibashi | Kaori Momoi | Mako Midori | Yukio Ninagawa | Keizo Kanie