Momoe Yamaguchi Movies
- 1980
Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura co-star in their tenth film together, a melodrama in which both travel to Spain to reconcile with their past. He rekindles an affair with an old flame before his long-lost love falls to her death. She reconciles with her aging father, a guitar maker who is not long for this world. They become caretakers for an orphan who was the son of Miura's former boss before he was fired for his love affair with a flamenco dance student. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, (more)
- 1979
Kinzo Otuka (Rentaro Mikuni) is a defense lawyer who refuses the request of Kiriko (Momoe Yamaguchi) to defend her brother after he is falsely accused of murder. When her brother commits suicide, Kiriko is convinced that Kinzo could have saved her sibling. She seeks vengeance by planting evidence against Kinzo's mistress Michiko (Akiko Koyama) and lies to the police to set her up on a murder rap. Tomokazu Miura plays the investigative reporter who falls for Kiriko and proposes marriage. Kinzo professes profound regret for not helping Kiriko and berates himself for only taking the cases of those who can afford his services. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, (more)
- 1977
This romantic melodrama tells the story of the blind daughter of a wealthy pharmacist (Momoe Yamaguchi), in mid-19th-century Japan (just prior to the Meiji Restoration). A born autocrat, she transforms her father's apprentice into her lover and servant and teaches him to play the samsien for her pleasure. Another man who is a suitor for her hand, frustrated that she will not consent to marriage, mutilates her face. The apprentice/lover, on hearing of this, puts out his own eyes so that he will only be able to remember his love as a great beauty. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, (more)
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