List of the best Youki Kudoh movies: Picture Bride(1994), Mystery Train(1989), Rush Hour 3(2007), Memoirs of a Geisha(2005), Snow Falling on Cedars(1999), The Limits of Control(2009) ... ...
Drama
Japan|USA
1994
98 Minutes
Riyo
Youki Kudoh Akira Takayama Tamlyn Tomita Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Toshirô Mifune Yoko Sugi
wife husband friend boss spokeswoman engaging dreamy moving sad hawaii plantation arranged marriage immigrants worker's rights abusive marriage labor tragic death transformation escape 1910s
Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.
Comedy, Drama
Japan|USA
1989
113 Minutes
Mitsuko
Masatoshi Nagase Nicoletta Braschi Joe Strummer Youki Kudoh Screamin' Jay Hawkins Cinqué Lee Elizabeth Bracco Rick Aviles Steve Buscemi Tom Noonan Rockets Redglare
brother-in-law husband night clerk teen girl robber dark offbeat hotel store train station bedroom hospitality robbery tourism grief discovery fall love metamorphosis 1980s
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Comedy, Action, Sports & Fitness
USA|Germany
2007
91 Minutes
Jasmine
Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Hiroyuki Sanada Youki Kudoh Max von Sydow Yvan Attal Noemie Lenoir Roman Polanski Tzi Ma Dana Ivey Jingchu Zhang
ambassador gangster partner detective triad cop amusing suspenseful gripping paris car fountain los angeles school assassination attempt protection friendship corruption police work east/west clash
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
Romance, Drama
USA|Japan|France
2005
136 Minutes
O-Kabo (Pumpkin)
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.
Drama, History
USA
1999
126 Minutes
Hatsue Miyamoto
Ethan Hawke James Cromwell Richard Jenkins James Rebhorn Sam Shepard Eric Thal Max von Sydow Youki Kudoh Rick Yune Jan Rubes Celia Weston
japanese-american fisherman newspaper reporter wife love interest judge somber endearing emotional profound pacific northwest fishing village household courtroom drowning murder postwar america discrimination family feud unrequited love
A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Drama
USA|Japan
2009
116 Minutes
Molecules
Isaach De Bankolé Gael García Bernal Tilda Swinton John Hurt Bill Murray Hiam Abbass Paz de la Huerta Alex Descas Youki Kudoh Jean-François Stévenin Luis Tosar
loner assassin woman target man criminal suspenseful emotional airport madrid seville, spain desert compound café mission crime journey murder consciousness instructions
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.