Yukiko Todoroki
Yukiko Todoroki (轟 夕起子 Todoroki Yukiko; September 11, 1917 – May 11, 1967) was a Japanese actress. Her real name was Tsuruko Nishiyama. She participated in the Takarazuka Revue. At Takarazuka, she was known not by her real name, but by the stage name Toruko (Turquoise or Turk). Her birthplace was Shinbori, Azabu-ku in Tokyo. Her two ex-husbands were film directors Masahiro Makino and Koji Shima. Her son is Masayuki Makino, the principal of Okinawa Actors School. Anna Makino, a former member of idol group Super Monkey's, is her granddaughter.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.01 |
Birthday | 1917-09-11 |
Place of Birth | Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
Also Known As | 轟 夕起子 , Юкико Тодороки, |
1956
Called to the Stand
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Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...
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1943
Sanshiro Sugata
6.538/120
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1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
6.2/50
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the for...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
1943
Miss Hanako
0/0
Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy...
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Miss Hanako
1959
The Makioka Sisters
8/1
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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The Makioka Sisters
1951
The Lady of Musashino
6.4/15
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in h...
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The Lady of Musashino
1956
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
7/24
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pourin...
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1957
Temptation
8.7/3
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Temptation
1942
Mother Never Dies
6/5
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
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Mother Never Dies
1958
A Slope in the Sun
5.5/6
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receiv...
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A Slope in the Sun
1955
The Maid's Kid
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In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her fami...
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The Maid's Kid
1959
Temptation on Glamour Island
6/1
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of Worl...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
1945
Victory Song
5.2/4
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Victory Song
1958
Red Pier
6.2/4
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1946
Nonkina tosan
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Nonkina tosan
1950
Snow-Flake
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1937
Unending Advance
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One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of...
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Unending Advance
1956
Hungry Soul
6/8
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business...
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Hungry Soul
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
0/0
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Ghost Story of Youth
1957
Dancing Sisters
0/0
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Dancing Sisters
1959
Saijo katagi
0/0
Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
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Saijo katagi
1953
Lady Chatterley of Japan
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Lady Chatterley of Japan
1963
The Symbol of a Man
7/1
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The Symbol of a Man
1964
The Flower and the Sword
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A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gan...
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The Flower and the Sword
1963
The Fight of the Gamblers
0/0
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeed...
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The Fight of the Gamblers
1963
The Dragon Crest
0/0
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
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The Dragon Crest
1940
Zoku Shimizu Minato
0/0
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
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Zoku Shimizu Minato
1944
Nichijô no tatakai
0/0
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Nichijô no tatakai
1964
The Scarred Crest
0/0
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The Scarred Crest
1956
Hungry Soul, Part II
6.4/7
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Hungry Soul, Part II
1955
Burden of Love
6.75/6
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after th...
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Burden of Love
1961
That Guy and I
10/1
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
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That Guy and I
1948
Gate of Flesh
0/0
A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling...
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Gate of Flesh
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
0/0
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
1946
Yoki na onna
0/0
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Yoki na onna
1954
Five Sisters
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The story of five sisters.
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Five Sisters
1957
Joshiryōsai
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Joshiryōsai
1965
The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill
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The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill
1959
The Stream of Youth
0/0
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1939
Explosion!
5/1
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama whic...
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Explosion!
1950
Mado Kara Tobidase
0/0
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an ag...
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Mado Kara Tobidase
1942
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
0/1
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1955
Women of Ginza
0/0
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Women of Ginza
1955
Striving to Live
0/0
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in troubl...
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Striving to Live
1962
The Lucky General
0/0
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The Lucky General
1958
Yoku
0/0
Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
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Yoku
1953
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
0/0
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
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1962
Our Failures
0/0
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
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Our Failures
1965
Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man
0/0
The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
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1965
The Rule for a Vagabond
0/0
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.
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1954
旗本退屈男 謎の百万両
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1952
Kyōshū
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1946
Seven Faces
0/0
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1954
Bannai Tarao Series Demon King of Kyokumadan
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Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.
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1953
Genta Shigure
0/0
Ryō Hagiwara movie
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Genta Shigure
1941
Tale of Jiro
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Tale of Jiro
1955
Tsukiyo no kasa
0/0
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two p...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
1958
Musume no boken
0/0
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Musume no boken
1945
Gekimetsu no uta
0/0
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...
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Gekimetsu no uta
1952
The Stand in Hakone
0/0
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
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The Stand in Hakone
1939
Shunjû ittôryû
0/0
Directorioal debut of Santaro Marune
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Shunjû ittôryû
1954
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
0/0
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
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1954
Sunny house
0/0
On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...
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Sunny house
1960
Girl in the Glass
0/0
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...
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Girl in the Glass
1945
Until Victory Day
0/0
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to e...
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Until Victory Day
1945
天晴れ一心太助
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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1945
Kanchō umi no bara
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Kanchō umi no bara
1948
Golden Devil
0/0
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
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Golden Devil
1948
Golden Devil Part 2
0/0
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
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Golden Devil Part 2
1964
Dislikes
0/0
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...
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1945
Uta e! Taiyō
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Uta e! Taiyō
1947
Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
0/0
1947 Japanese movie
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1948
Ghosts Die at Dawn
0/0
Japanese horror movie from 1948.
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