Ruriko Asaoka Movies

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.

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man...

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

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...

A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.

The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her...

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

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

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion...

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...

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...