Ken Yamauchi
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 9, 1943
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Born Under Crossed Stars
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.
A Whistle in My Heart
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
The Incorrigible
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Distant Love
A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
Four Young Sisters
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 young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Onigiri: Arcadia monogatari
A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
An Urban Affair
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
Goodbye Mr. Tears
An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.
Filmography
as Takasago
as 青年獣医・吉野正
as Yamakawa
as Kenji Yamada
as Ken'ichi Muraki
as Kenji Kawara
as Gen'ichi Nakagawa
as Ken'ichi Muraki
as Susumu Mishima
as Gorô Nishizaka
as Fujita
as Shôji Yamaguchi
as Kenkichi Kono
as Jiro Sasaki
as Isamu Kurita
as Ken Yamaguchi
as Goro Nishizaka
as Tatsuo Mukai
as Ryôsuke Okada
as 金谷幸吉
as Jun Kitano
as Kazumasa Ayanokôji
as Tommy Fukuda
as Ichiro Gonda
as Daisuke Inoue
as Akio Tsuda
as (as Ken Kubo)
as Jôji Ogata