Haruko Wanibuchi

Acting

Haruko Wanibuchi

Born April 22, 1945 · Tokyo, Japan (age 81)

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Known For

HouseHouse · 1977
House
★ 7.31977
MovieComedyFantasy
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
One Missed Call 2One Missed Call 2 · 2005
One Missed Call 2
★ 6.02005
MovieHorrorMystery
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Karaoke TerrorKaraoke Terror · 2003
Karaoke Terror
★ 5.72003
MovieDrama
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
The Stairway to the Distant PastThe Stairway to the Distant Past · 1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
★ 7.21995
MovieDramaCrime
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Heaven's BookstoreHeaven's Bookstore · 2004
Heaven's Bookstore
★ 5.92004
MovieDramaRomance
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
Scent of a SpellScent of a Spell · 1985
Scent of a Spell
★ 6.01985
MovieDramaMystery
A young man saves a woman who is trying to commit suicide, gradually discovering more about her troubled past.
House of Sleeping BeautiesHouse of Sleeping Beauties · 1995
House of Sleeping Beauties
★ 8.51995
MovieDrama
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
Asian Beat: I Love NipponAsian Beat: I Love Nippon · 1991
Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
★ 9.21991
Movie
Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian countries, including Japan, compete to create the same protagonist (Masatoshi Nagase). The main character "TOKIO" becomes involved in various incidents when he meets Banana, a Filipino girl who is a terrorist and holds top-secret information that will shake Japan. This work depicts the appearance of TOKIO and his escape from Japan.

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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de LuxeHeisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe · 1995
Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
★ 8.01995
MovieComedy
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.

Akiko Natsume