Kazuko Shirakawa
Kazuko Shirakawa (born September 30, 1947) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno films during the 1970s. She appeared in Nikkatsu's first film in the Roman Porno series, Apartment Wife (1971), and is considered the first of the three "Nikkatsu Queens" of the 1970s. After 1976 she embarked on a successful career in mainstream film.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 16.613 |
| Birthday | 1947-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan |
| Also Known As | 白川和子, |
1998
After Life
7.2/215
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased,...
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After Life
1976
The Youth Killer
6.533/15
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, ten...
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The Youth Killer
1972
Ichijo's Wet Lust
6.2/4
Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrest...
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Ichijo's Wet Lust
1971
Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon
5/2
A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband. When she seeks extramarital relationships, her affairs are discovered by a brothel-o...
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Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon
1972
Dewdrops on the Petals
5.5/2
Yukie is a young woman who works at her father's flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual f...
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Dewdrops on the Petals
1967
Girls' Dormitory
1/1
In a complex story, various sexual escapades - heterosexual and lesbian - take place at a hospital.
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Girls' Dormitory
1968
All the Tricks in Life
0/0
Pinku from 1968.
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All the Tricks in Life
1969
Lewd Priest: Forty-Eight Positions Cutting
2/1
Zatoichi pink film parody from 1969
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Lewd Priest: Forty-Eight Positions Cutting
1969
Writhing Hill Secret Club
0/0
Pinku from 1969.
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Writhing Hill Secret Club
1970
色万引き
0/0
Pinku from 1970.
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色万引き
1972
Drifter's Affair
10/1
Roman Porno from 1972.
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Drifter's Affair
1972
The Sloe-eyed Siren
10/1
Roman Porno from 1972.
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The Sloe-eyed Siren
1972
The Shadow on the Wall
0/0
A blind woman suspects that something isn’t right about the reappeared wife of her brother after she was missing for 6 months. Soon things take a sini...
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The Shadow on the Wall
1972
Affair at Twilight
10/1
Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a no-tell...
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Affair at Twilight
1973
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
0/0
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1972
Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
0/0
Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but...
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Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
1990
Swimming Upstream
1.5/1
One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first sight and decides to join the swimming team even th...
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Swimming Upstream
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
6.9/7
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
2002
Blessing Bell
6.7/14
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
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Blessing Bell
1981
Why Not?
6.4/15
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
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Why Not?
1989
Black Rain
7.491/110
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic b...
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Black Rain
2013
The Devil's Path
6.135/37
Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed...
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The Devil's Path
2011
Dendera
9.7/3
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...
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Dendera
1979
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
6.5/8
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
1981
The Wild Daisy
6/1
Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko moved...
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The Wild Daisy
1983
The Family Game
6.7/22
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a mo...
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The Family Game
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
7.523/130
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Vengeance Is Mine
2010
Housewife's Afternoon Delight
3.8/8
Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness an...
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Housewife's Afternoon Delight
1982
Farewell to the Land
4.4/5
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his...
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Farewell to the Land
2008
Osaka Hamlet
0/0
A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find their own identity with the help of their outgoing...
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Osaka Hamlet
2017
Dawn of the Felines
6/17
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
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Dawn of the Felines
2011
Cannonball Wedlock
7.2/4
24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie Ik...
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Cannonball Wedlock
1978
The Young Animals
5.3/3
Shinji, a leather jacket man on a Harley Davidson, meets Megu, who is a queen bee with followers while stopping the fight between two female groups. M...
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The Young Animals
1995
Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!! Socho saigo no hi
0/0
Based on a manga by Masahide Motohashi.
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Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!! Socho saigo no hi
2001
Lily Festival
0.8/2
Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses sev...
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Lily Festival
1973
The Hotspring Resort Masseuse
10/1
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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The Hotspring Resort Masseuse
1972
The Superhuman Stud
10/1
Roman Porno from 1972.
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The Superhuman Stud
1971
Thirsty for Love
0/0
Kazuko Shirakawa plays a girl who left home to satisfy her inner lust. Her passion turns to despair when she looks at her miserable life and sees the...
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Thirsty for Love
1973
Overly-Ripe Breasts: Married Women
0/0
A woman's husband’s infidelity drives her to sleep with both of her sisters’ lovers.
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Overly-Ripe Breasts: Married Women
1973
Did the Red Bird Escape?
6.3/3
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
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Did the Red Bird Escape?
2017
Radiance
6.598/92
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
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Radiance
2018
I Will Never Forgive
4.5/2
A psychological drama about the consequences of a 15 year old girl's gang rape.
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I Will Never Forgive
1992
Sosuke Loses His Lover
2/1
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
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Sosuke Loses His Lover
2016
Night's Tightrope
6.8/14
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person...
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Night's Tightrope
1983
Kawasaki Vice Squad
0/0
A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.
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Kawasaki Vice Squad
1983
Praying Mantis
2/1
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective i...
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Praying Mantis
1995
Teito Monogatari Gaiden
7.5/2
In 1995, a mental hospital is erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by...
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Teito Monogatari Gaiden
1972
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
7.2/4
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a...
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1977
The Story of a Geisha
0/0
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
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The Story of a Geisha
1984
Serial Killer: Coldblooded
0/0
Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
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Serial Killer: Coldblooded
1984
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
0/0
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
1967
A Pit
1/1
Description of Lesbian sex.
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A Pit
2019
The Nikaidos' Fall
4.667/3
After losing his son, Tatsuya is anguished by the danger of his ancient family line coming to an end. His mother Haru urges him to embark on a loveles...
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The Nikaidos' Fall
2018
Roupeiro's Melancholy
0/0
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Roupeiro's Melancholy
2021
Struggling Man
7.333/3
Haruo Izawa is 45 years old and the floor chief of the local grocery store “Umeya”. He is highly trusted by Store Manager Ueda and the part-time ladie...
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Struggling Man
2013
Before the Vigil
6/3
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her...
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Before the Vigil
1985
Spring Bell
6/1
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, d...
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Spring Bell
1992
Execution In Daytime
0/0
A former detective vows revenge on those who caused his daughter's suicide
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Execution In Daytime
1971
Nihon porno Olympic: Chikubi-yama no seien
0/0
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Nihon porno Olympic: Chikubi-yama no seien
1972
Night and Day
0/0
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Night and Day
1972
The Love Sorceress
0/0
Yasuko's husband Junichi works overseas, she becomes intimate with another guy called Takuji in his absence. One day her husband returns and she begin...
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The Love Sorceress
1972
Manatsu no Yoru no Jôji
0/0
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Manatsu no Yoru no Jôji
1972
Silent Tears
10/1
Roman Porno from 1972.
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Silent Tears
1973
Apartment Wife: Night of the Rape
10/1
The story depicts the process of a happy family being destroyed by someone taking advantage of a traffic accident caused by buying a car to show off t...
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Apartment Wife: Night of the Rape
1999
In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
0/0
A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of th...
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In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
1988
That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
4.3/3
A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
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That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
The Erotic Empire
0/0
A short history of the Japanese 'Pink' movie, focusing on the output of the Nikkatsu studio.
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The Erotic Empire
2022
Onpaku
0/0
Tokyo is a mere five-hour flight from Hong Kong but it is a totally different world. Sarah (Josie Ho) has come to Japan seeking to buy an investment p...
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Onpaku
1984
Tokimeki Coast Story
0/0
Set in the fishing port of Shingu, Nankishu, it depicts a young man aiming to become a professional surfer.
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Tokimeki Coast Story
2007
The Lawyer of Shimane
7/1
The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and rig...
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The Lawyer of Shimane
2023
Thorns of Love
8/1
After getting dumped by her boyfriend Kentaro, Tomita Momo, who works at a library, suddenly discovers the existence of her ex-boyfriend's current gir...
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Thorns of Love
1990
Don't Mind
0/0
Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.
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Don't Mind
2023
ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
0/0
Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandoned her in a coin locker. One day, Nu meets Kazuma K...
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ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
1987
Luminous Woman
5/3
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes invol...
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Luminous Woman
2023
Picture of Spring
0/0
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Picture of Spring
2011
2 Channel no Noroi - VOL. 3
0/0
Third volume in the 2 Channel series.
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2 Channel no Noroi - VOL. 3
2003
Fujin Volleyball: Mamas Attack
0/0
In 2003, Nikkatsu got the cute idea to just toss a bunch of washed up middle aged Ex-Roman Porno stars into a V-cinema Volleyball Movie.
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Fujin Volleyball: Mamas Attack
1984
Mitsugetsu
6.6/5
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away...
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Mitsugetsu
1967
Impotent
0/0
A "short" boy who is unable to perform satisfactory sexual acts. His childhood sweetheart understands him and a new life begins, but it does not go we...
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Impotent
2023
Six Singing Women
6.5/4
Two men with opposite personalities, Kayashima and Uwajima, accidentally wander into a beautiful village after a car accident. When they wake up, they...
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Six Singing Women
1983
Women’s Secrets Behind Bars
0/0
After being falsely charged with murdering her husband, Nao is sent to a prison for women where her fellow inmates try to help her escape.
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