Koto the Ancient City / Ancient City / Koto (1980)
Drama
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Kishi, Jun Izumi, Yuuki Kitazume
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Temptation of Angle / Tenshi o yûwaku (1979)
Drama | Romance
This story of the everyday life of a couple living together is made all the more powerful by the lead's real off-screen romance.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Toshiya Fujita
White Love / Howaito rabu (1979)
Romance
A pimp has an adulterous affair with a Japanese girl who studies flamenco dancing.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiju Kobayashi, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani
Dances of Flame / Honoo no mai (1978)
Drama | Romance
Takuji spies a house on the hill while wandering on the beach. He is invited in and treated as an honoured guest, especially by the lovely young Kiyono. They soon marry, but as the year is 1940, the oncoming war threatens. Takuji disappears, then returns, then is enlisted.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Toshio Hosokawa, Michiyo Kogure, Michiko Araki, Ichirô Arishima, Midori Kanazawa
Director: Yoshisuke Kawasaki
Take Me Away / If She Looks Back, It's Love / Furimukeba ai (1978)
Drama | Romance
Kyoko met Tetsuo during her vacation in San Francisco. They fell in love at first sight and agreed to meet in Tokyo. However, Tetsuo failed to turn up and Kyoko decided to marry someone else. When Tetsuo learnt of Kyoko‘s marriage, he took up all sort of jobs in order to save enough money to fly to Tokyo…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Yôko Minamida, Akitsugi Moritsugi, Tomoko Naraoka, Eiji Okada
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Flag in the Mist / Sweet Revenge / Kiri-no-hata (1977)
Drama | Mystery
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in KitaKyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death. Meanwhile, through the actions of a crusading young journalist, Otsuka is informed of Masao's death. His curiosity piqued, he requests the file and reviews the evidence. Otsuka also has an adoring mistress who owns a bar. By coincidence (?), the real murderer is an associate of one of her employees. Kiriko, now working as a hostess in a different bar, is asked by a friend to tail her boyfriend, whom she suspects of cheating. The boyfriend is murdered in the bar owner's flat, and Kiriko grabs the chance to set her revenge plan into action. Kiriko rigs the crime scene to falsely incriminate the bar owner, who is subsequently jailed. Otsuka's mistress out of the way, Kiriko sets out to seduce and entrap Otsuka, against the advice of the crusading journalist.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Haruko Kato
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Masako, Junko, Momoe: On Stage / Masako, Junko, Momoe – Namida no Sotsugyou Shiki Shuppatsu (1977)
Documentary
The 'Flower High 2 Trio' of Masako Mori, Junko Sakurada, and Momoe Yamaguchi became very popular once it was formed in 1973. However in 1977, it was time for the girls to graduate from High school and the group to dissolve. This is a documentary of their grand final concert held in Nippon Budokan Hall on March 27, 1977.
Starring: Masako Mori, Junko Sakurada, Momoe Yamaguchi
Producer: Masakatsu Saito
Love in the Mud / Dorodarake no junjô (1977)
Drama
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ichirô Arishima, Chisako Hara, Yûzô Hayakawa
Director: Sokichi Tomimoto
The Wild Daisy / Nogiku no haka (1977)
Drama
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Osamu Sakuta, Yôko Minamida, Shirô Osaka, Miwa Saitô, Tanie Kitabayashi, Fujio Tokita, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
A Portrait of Shunkin / Shunkinsho (1976)
Drama
Okoto is a rich girl, who was blind since childhood. She has become distant and cold to everyone except her young servant Sasuke, whom she can trust. Without himself realizing it, he grew fond of her. One day, tragedy strikes and Koto was badly scared on her face. Sasuke couldn't bear to see her. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, he went even to take away his own sight of vision…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Moeko Ezawa, Akiko Kazami, Hôsei Komatsu
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Autumn Interlude / Kaze tachinu (1976)
Drama
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Shinsuke Ashida, Seizaburô Kawazu, Jûkichi Uno
Director: Mitsuo Wakasugi
Eden no umi / Sea of Eden (1976)
Drama | Romance
A jovial young man from Tokyo, Nanjo, comes to teach at a girl highschool on the coast of Setonaikai. He captures the heart of all the girls right away except a rebellious one, Tomoe.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Yutaka Nanjo
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Shouting / Zesshô (1975)
Drama | Romance
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new life. But when Junkichi is called off to war, they make a pledge to sing the song of engagement everyday until they are able to reunite.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Shirô Osaka, Tokue Hanazawa, Shin'ya Ohwada, Nobuo Nakamura, Yoshio Yoshida
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Time of First Love / Hana no kō ni torio – Hatsukoi jidai (1975)
Drama | Romance
3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Starring: Masako Mori, Junko Sakurada, Momoe Yamaguchi
Director: Kenjiro Morinaga
The Sound of the Waves / Shiosai (1975)
Drama | Romance
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ichirô Arishima, Keiko Tsushima
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
The Izu Dancer / Izu no odoriko (1974)
Drama
Based on Yasunari Kawabata real life sotry in which he had a brief time of romance with a girl dancer.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
