List of the best Shizuko Hoshi movies: Come See the Paradise(1990), M. Butterfly(1993), Fer de Lance(1974), Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes(1990), Memoirs of a Geisha(2005) ... ...
Drama
USA
1990
134 Minutes
Mrs. Kawamura
Dennis Quaid Tamlyn Tomita Sab Shimono Shizuko Hoshi Stan Egi Ronald Yamamoto Akemi Nishino Naomi Nakano Brady Tsurutani Elizabeth Gilliam Shyree Mezick
soldier projectionist theater owner japanese-american bleak tender sad los angeles seattle manzanar, california new york city world war ii interracial romance interracial conflict imprisonment xenophobia forbidden love wretched excess escape 1940s
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA|Canada
1993
100 Minutes
Comrade Chin
Jeremy Irons John Lone Ian Richardson Barbara Sukowa Annabel Leventon Shizuko Hoshi Richard McMillan Vernon Dobtcheff
diplomat opera singer lover intricate melodramatic beijing china opera house apartment deception unusual romance espionage culture clash betrayal gender identity transformation fall forbidden love 1960s
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Mystery & Thriller
1974
100 Minutes
Suan Kuroda
David Janssen Hope Lange Ivan Dixon Jason Evers Charles Robinson Ben Piazza Sherry Boucher Robert Ito William Mims Shizuko Hoshi Richard LePore
Researchers (David Janssen, Hope Lange, Ivan Dixon) are trapped in a submarine with poisonous snakes.
War, Action, Drama
1990
97 Minutes
Nurse Yama
Max von Sydow Judd Nelson Kim Miyori Mako Tamlyn Tomita Stan Egi Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Brady Tsurutani Ben Wright Shizuko Hoshi Sab Shimono
soldier doctor priest prisoner of war bleak emotional hiroshima, japan city war zone hiroshima bombing world war ii culture clash radiation death survival fall escape 1940s
A German Jesuit, two U.S. POWs and Japanese citizens share their perspectives of the 1945 atomic bomb and the aftermath.
Romance, Drama
USA|Japan|France
2005
136 Minutes
Zhang Ziyi Ken Watanabe Michelle Yeoh Koji Yakusho Youki Kudoh Gong Li Kaori Momoi Tsai Chin Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Suzuka Ohgo Randall Duk Kim
geisha rival mentor servant client young girl passionate spectacular gripping engaging kyoto, japan geisha house bordello house performance training servitude coming of age romance unintended consequences
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.