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Akemi Negishi

Born: 26th Mar 1934 Tokyo, Japan - Died 11th Mar 2008
Dept: Acting
Akemi Negishi (根岸明美 Negishi Akemi, b. 26 March 1934, Tokyo, Japan - died 11 March 2008 (73), Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese actress. In 1953, when Josef von Sternberg made a film adaptation of the Queen of Anatahan incident, she was discovered at an audition and made her debut in the lead role in Anatahan. Since then, she has been active mainly in film and television. She gained popularity as an actress with a bewitching charm who "could act as well." Ishirō Honda said that Negishi's unique aura suited his films. She died of ovarian cancer at a hospital in Kawasaki City on March 11, 2008. She was 73 years old.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 64
Film: 64 (100%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, Music

Filmography

Original title: 青い薔薇殺人事件
1993
A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a blue rose. ... view
Character:
Mitsuko Tsuruta
The Setting Sun Drama, War, Romance
Original title: 落陽
1992
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement. ... view
Character:
Yamashita's wife
Original title: 式部物語
1990
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near ... view
Character:
Fuji
Location Comedy
Original title: ロケーション
1984
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 bo ... view
Character:
Umeko
The Makioka Sisters Drama, Romance
Original title: 細雪
1983
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid ... view
Character:
Mrs. Shimozuma
Lady Karuizawa Drama, Romance
Original title: 軽井沢夫人
1982
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman f ... view
Character:
Yôko Ayukawa
Distant Thunder Romance, Drama
Original title: 遠雷
1981
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to k ... view
Character:
Mother of Hirotsugu
Original title: 裸の大将放浪記 山下清物語
1981
Sent to an institution for mentally handicapped children by his parents, he began creating artworks using torn strips of paper. After running away to ... view
Character:
Original title: もう頬づえはつかない
1979
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs tha ... view
Character:
Mariko's Mother
Original title: 絞殺
1979
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromisi ... view
Character:
Original title: もっとしなやかにもっとしたたかに
1979
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run ... view
Character:
Original title: オリオンの殺意より 情事の方程式
1978
Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she ha ... view
Character:
Original title: 危険な関係
1978
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning j ... view
Character:
Masae Miyakawa
The Life of Chikuzan Drama, History
Original title: 竹山ひとり旅
1977
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi ... view
Character:
Tami
Original title: Ai to makoto: Kanketsu-hen
1976
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being pe ... view
Character:
Original title: 鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い
1975
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone i ... view
Character:
Original title: 従軍慰安婦
1974
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2. ... view
Character:
Kura
Original title: 女囚さそり 701号怨み節
1973
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover ... view
Character:
Prison Guard Minamimura
Lady Snowblood Action, Crime, Drama
Original title: 修羅雪姫
1973
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother b ... view
Character:
Tajire no Okiku
Female Yakuza Tale Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Original title: やさぐれ姐御伝 総括リンチ
1973
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tor ... view
Character:
Osada
Toshigoro Drama
Original title: としごろ
1973
Teenage film ... view
Character:
Sex and Fury Action, Crime
Original title: 不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶
1973
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and ... view
Character:
Ogin Shitateya
Original title: 女生きてます 盛り場渡り鳥
1972
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garn ... view
Character:
Harue
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion Crime, Thriller, Action
Original title: 女囚701号さそり
1972
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 desir ... view
Character:
Otsuka
Original title: セックス喜劇 鼻血ブー
1971
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation. ... view
Character:
Katsuko Ogawa
Original title: 未亡人ごろしの帝王
1971
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by ... view
Character:
Dodes'ka-den Drama
Original title: どですかでん
1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father ... view
Character:
Good-Looking Housewife
Hooligans on Buggies Drama, Action, Crime
Original title: 不良番長 暴走バギー団
1970
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization. ... view
Character:
The Hot Little Girl Action, Crime
Original title: しびれくらげ
1970
A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal. ... view
Character:
Keiko
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies Action, Romance
Original title: 女たらしの帝王
1970
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women. ... view
Character:
Cecile Hanada
Play It Cool Action, Crime, Drama
Original title: でんきくらげ
1970
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure ... view
Character:
Tomi
Original title: マル秘女子大生 妊娠中絶
1969
Character:
Original title: 怪談 蛇女
1968
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died ... view
Character:
Masae Ônuma , Landlord's Wife
Express Train Comedy
Original title: 喜劇 急行列車
1967
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to ... view
Character:
Original title: 暗黒街シリーズ 荒っぽいのは御免だぜ
1967
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Ha ... view
Character:
Original title: スパイキャッチャーJ3 SOS危機一発
1966
TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization T ... view
Character:
Original title: 無頼漢仁義
1965
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the sc ... view
Character:
Red Beard Drama
Original title: 赤ひげ
1965
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him ... view
Character:
Okuni
Original title: 眠狂四郎女妖剣
1964
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthle ... view
Character:
High School Juniors (Part II) Comedy, Drama, Music
Original title: 続高校三年生
1964
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity a ... view
Character:
Character:
18 Roughs Drama
Original title: 嵐を呼ぶ十八人
1963
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its run ... view
Character:
Hisako Murata
King Kong vs. Godzilla Action, Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
1963
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they barga ... view
Character:
Chikiro's Mother (Dancing Girl) (uncredited)
Original title: 親分を倒せ
1963
Film directed by Ishii Teruo ... view
Character:
King Kong vs. Godzilla Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Original title: キングコング対ゴジラ
1962
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approa ... view
Character:
Chikiro's Mother
Original title: 名もなく貧しく美しく
1961
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京の休日
1958
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o ... view
Character:
Original title: 花嫁三重奏
1958
An Ishiro Honda film. ... view
Character:
Original title: どん底
1957
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur ... view
Character:
Osen the Prostitute
Original title: わが胸に虹は消えず: 第一部
1957
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film. ... view
Character:
Original title: わが胸に虹は消えず: 第二部
1957
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film. ... view
Character:
Atsuko Shimada
1957
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote ... view
Character:
The Mountain Girl
A Man in the Storm Action, Adventure
Original title: 嵐の中の男
1957
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert. ... view
Character:
Okon
Original title: 妻の心
1956
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jeal ... view
Character:
Sumiko
Original title: 婚約三羽烏
1956
1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie ... view
Character:
Osen (Country Girl, Miki’s Fiancée)
The Underworld Drama, Crime
Original title: 暗黒街
1956
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy ... view
Character:
Sudden Rain Drama
Original title: 驟雨
1956
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes fro ... view
Character:
Hinako (Nenkichi's wife)
Original title: 生きものの記録
1955
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared i ... view
Character:
Asako Kuribayashi
Original title: あすなろ物語
1955
Character:
Yukie
Beast Man Snow Man Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure
Original title: 獣人雪男
1955
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman. ... view
Character:
Chika
Original title: 魔子恐るべし
1954
Character:
Farewell Rabaul Romance, War, Drama
Original title: さらばラバウル
1954
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little ... view
Character:
Kimu
Original title: 赤線基地
1953
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution. ... view
Character:
Yukiko
Anatahan Drama, War
Original title: アナタハン
1953
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan. ... view
Character:
Keiko Kusakabe