Ruriko Asaoka Movies

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

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...

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Film by Buichi Saitô

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

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...

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

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...