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Yumiko Katayama

Yumiko Katayama

Acting

Biography

Yumiko Katayama was born on December 18, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan. She is an actress, known for Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai (1971) and Horrors of Malformed Men (1969).

Known For

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
7.0

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972
Love and Crime
7.2

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.

Love and Crime

1969
Giant Robo
7.5

Join Daisaku Kusama and Giant Robo as they battle the interstellar terrorist group Big Fire.

Giant Robo

1967
The Bullet Train
6.8

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.

The Bullet Train

1975
Inferno of Torture
5.7

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.

Inferno of Torture

1969
Horrors of Malformed Men
5.6

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Horrors of Malformed Men

1969
Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
6.3

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

1969
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
6.7

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

1973
Farewell to Rock'n Roll
7.0

There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.

Farewell to Rock'n Roll

1973
Daring Girls
8.0

Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale of elaborate sex antics, Yakuza crime, and bloody revenge.

Daring Girls

1969
Yakuza Law
6.1

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Yakuza Law

1969
The Revelation of a Geisha
4.7

After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.

The Revelation of a Geisha

1970
Prison Tales
7.0

No description available.

Prison Tales

1970
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
6.1

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

1971
Yakuza on Foot
7.5

An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.

Yakuza on Foot

1969
Woman His Prey
N/A

No description available.

Woman His Prey

1972
Women Doing Time
N/A

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Women Doing Time

1966
Love Lost in Tears
7.0

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.

Love Lost in Tears

1973
A Flower in a Neon Jungle
N/A

No description available.

A Flower in a Neon Jungle

1973
Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
N/A

The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defends a blind girl at a street market. The area is targeted by rotten yakuza (Asao Koike and Tatsuo Endo), who have lured local senior female boss (Nijiko Kiyokawa’s) rebellious but not entirely indecent son Goro Ibuki to their side.

Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel

1970