Sayuri Yoshinaga
Acting
Biography
Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合) is a Japanese actress.
Born: March 13, 1945
Place of Birth: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Climbing for Life
In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the world's highest peak. Junko's unforgettable feat stunned the world, bringing her into the spotlight but casting a huge shadow over her friends and family. Despite being diagnosed with a terminal illness in her final years, Junko continued to challenge the mountains. What was the last thing she saw beyond the summit?
The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
Heaven Station
From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.
Sakura Guardian in the North
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
Love Comes with Youth
During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the “odoriko”. Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited to stay at the same lodgings, the two grow closer. In time, the two come to learn the pain of love.
It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Though her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in helping a man wrongfully accused of murder and in the process discovers love.
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Diary of Early Winter Shower
Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in Shiguretei, but Ushio was hospitalized after a stroke a few days later, and when his wife, Takako, rushed to the hospital, she discovered their love affair, which in reality had not gone beyond kissing. Now, 20 years later, against the advice of her ikebana mentor, Tae rushes to meet Ushio at Shiguretei, only to see him clutching his chest in pain. Eventually, the design and plans for the dream retreat are seen by Tae, but she has to visit Kyoto alone... or maybe she's heading for somewhere else.
Filmography
as Junko Tabei
as Kanzaki Fukue
as Sawako Shiraishi
as Yukie Kitahara
as Tetsu Ezure
as Nobuko Fukuhara
as Etsuko Kashiwagi
as Lady Maya (voice)
as Haru
as Narration / Chapra's Mother (voice)
as Ginko Takano
as Kayo Nogami
as Komatsubara Shino
as Murasaki Shikibu
as Aihachi
as Tae Horikawa
as Yae Sawada
as Yumiko Minami
as Onami
as Ryoko Kinuhata
as Countess Takafune
as Akiko Yosano
as Tsuru (crane)
as Narration
as Kinuyo Tanaka
as Yumechiyo
as Ohan
as Kayo
as Yukiko Makioka
as Tae Makimura
as Kaoru Mizoguchi
as 母・すず
as Yasuko Shibata
as Tatsuya (voice)
as Kyoko Fujisaki
as Utako
as Yoriko Godai
as Utako
as Yoriko Godai
as Oryo
as Uno
as Kazuko Yonamine
as Yuri Yoshinaga
as Kaori
as Kazue Matsui
as Katsura Shiraishi
as Miyako Misawa
as Jun Ishiguro
as Yuriko Nomura
as Shizuka Komura
as Fumiko Hayashi
as 守屋伴子
as Hatsue Miyata
as Keiko Udagawa
as Mieko Ishida
as Azusa Isomura
as 桑野蕗子
as Asako
as Ayako Kawaji
as Mami Yokoyama
as Shinko Terazawa
as Keiko Enami
as Jun
as Noriko Nagai
as Misa Mayama
as Sumiko
as Miyako
as Yasuyo Okinaka
as Noriko
as Noriko Dan
as Setsuko
as Miwako Kariya
as Yumechiyo