Junko Mihara Movies
- 1986
- R
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Takeshi Kaga, Hironobu Nomura, (more)
- 1983
The tensions that develop when someone must conceal a truth from a dear friend or relative is the focus of this drama about a Japanese father and son. The father, Takeichi (Keiju Kobayashi) is too ashamed to tell his son Takashi (Keichi Nakai) that his own father ran a crematorium. Young Takashi finds out when his birth mother informs him about his paternal background, and deranged in a moment of anger, he stabs and wounds his teacher. Takeichi picks up his son from school and begins to rebuild their relationship by explaining why he left the crematorium in the hands of his younger brother. Gradually, an understanding arises in the son that makes his father's years of dissimulation seem like a sad loss to them both. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Keiju Kobayashi, Junko Mihara, (more)
- 1982
Moe (Junko Mihara) is a teenager who has left her family's country home to share an apartment in Tokyo with her older brother Jun (Eiji Okada), in order to get a good high-school education in the city. She does the housework for her brother, who is a successful photographer with a romantic interest in his attractive assistant. Moe and her brother share the same bed -- out of practicality -- but that situation changes when Moe awakens sexually. Her brother's interest is strictly in his assistant and he has no clue that Moe is in a quandary about her own sexual leanings, even when she tries to ruin his relationship with the photography assistant. Moe then looks for other ways to express her desires, and she starts to develop a relationship that -- as unlikely as it may be -- will at least solve her dilemma. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Junko Mihara, Eiji Okada, (more)
