Michiko Sakyō

Acting

Michiko Sakyō

Born January 7, 1937 · Kyoto, Japan (age 89)

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Known For

Birth of a Jazz MaidenBirth of a Jazz Maiden · 1957
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
MovieMusic
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
Temptation on Glamour IslandTemptation on Glamour Island · 1959
Temptation on Glamour Island
★ 7.01959
MovieWarComedy
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Female Slave ShipFemale Slave Ship · 1960
Female Slave Ship
★ 6.51960
MovieActionWar
The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche war plans to Tokyo from his base in Malaysia. But while flying over Chinese waters his plane is shot down and he is taken aboard a ship bound for Shanghai to deliver its merchandise - a ship filled with Female Slaves kidnapped from Japan. Will he abandon the women to pursue his main objective? Or will he fight foes, spies and pirates to save these women against all odds?
Nude Model Murder CaseNude Model Murder Case · 1958
Nude Model Murder Case
1958
MovieCrimeMystery
Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?
Madame OMadame O · 1967
Madame O
★ 5.11967
MovieDramaHorror
After being brutally gang-raped, a young girl grows into a woman with a double life: She's a well-to-do doctor by day and, by night, a revenge-driven streetwalker who uses sex as a weapon. That all changes when she finally falls in love and begins a new life with her husband -- only to discover that he has a troubling secret of his own.
Judo QueenJudo Queen · 1959
Judo Queen
1959
Movie
1959 Japanese film directed by Morihei Magatani for Shintoho.
Female DetectiveFemale Detective · 1960
Female Detective
1960
MovieCrimeDrama
With the object of discovering the male accomplice of Hideko, a bad girl, Michiko, a police-woman, disguises herself and infiltrates a gang. Then in a reformatory, under the name of Suzuko, she finds a certain girl who is familiar with Hideko and from her she approaches a woman, named Keiko. One day, at a beer-hall, the police-woman meets Keiko who just finished a secret narcotics transaction and asks her about Hideko. However, with the sudden appearance of Saburo, one of the gang, her search fails, and an exciting pursuit begins. Later Keiko is found dead.
A PitA Pit · 1967
A Pit
★ 3.31967
Movie
A reporter, Nagako Kita, is fired for writing about police corruption. To make money, she hides while a weekly magazine publishes photos of her, and offers a prize to the person who discovers her. A group of three bank embezzlers, So Yamamura, Eiji Funakoshi, and Sotoji Mukui, employ Mukui's younger sister Fukiko as a fake employee at the bank and plan to make her disappear when the real woman appears again and blame the crime on her.

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