Kimiko Tachibana
Popularity:0.147
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1921-10-10
Place of Birth:Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
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Also Known As:橘貴美子, 橘贵美子

Night River (1956)
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

A Baby Given by a Fox (1945)
A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall (1958)
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall....

The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...

Freelance Samurai (1957)
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...

The Fiery Magistrate (1956)
Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

Drunken Harbor (1966)
Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Hatamoto taikutsu otoko torimono hikae: Dokusatsu maden (1950)
1950 Japanese movie

Audition (2000)
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their...

Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern (1962)
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from...

Samurai Save The Virgin (1960)
A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbulent era in which various characters fall into a...

Bonchi (1960)
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter (1961)
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their...

Clothes of Deception (1951)
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

The Demon of Sendai's Castle (1962)
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

Jigoku bana (1957)
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Phantom Castle (1940)
Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

An Heir's Place (1953)
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

Bakeneko Goyōda (1958)
A comic thriller directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, a first-time newcomer, based on a screenplay by Toshio Tamikado, who co-wrote "Nukiashisashi Ashi...

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace (1953)
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl....

Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū (1940)
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom...

Maboroshijō kaiketsu-hen kizoji no gaika (1940)
Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mountain map was with Kirisaku at the Ashiwara...

Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio (1940)
Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake...

Buddha (1961)
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing (1954)
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

The Crucified Lovers (1954)
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Okoto and Sasuke (1961)
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Broken Swords (1969)
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967)
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...

Secret Assignment (1967)
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in...

The Night before Pearl Harbor (1968)
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...

Ken (1964)
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure (1964)
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Sword Devil (1965)
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade (1963)
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double...

Gonpachi (1956)
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan (1965)
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan,...

Irezumi (1966)
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess (1966)
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy (1966)
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

Bronze Magician (1963)
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

A Lustful Man (1961)
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...

Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot (1954)
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

A Geisha (1953)
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...

The Snowy Heron (1958)
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Naked Ambition (1970)
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin...

Oniisan to oneesan (1961)
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Marathon Samurai (1956)
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda...

The Curse of the Ghost (1969)
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to...

Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko (1954)
Second in the Nage Utasamon series