Yoshinaga Yoko'o

Nacimiento : 1930-04-13, Tokyo, Japan

Muerte : 2017-07-18

Películas

The Buried Forest
Production Design
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
Faraway Sunset
Production Design
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless search for a cure to yellow fever. As a toddler, his mother's neglect had caused an accident to his left hand, fusing together all the fingers in a bizarre twist of fate. Naturally extremely remorseful for being the cause of her son's handicap, she does everything she could to ensure that he gets to lead a normal life, despite having to fend off bullies and unfair prejudices.
The Sting of Death
Production Design
En el año 1944, un año antes del fin de la Guerra en el Pacífico, Toshio, un joven comandante de una unidad naval, conoce a la encantadora Miho en una pequeña isla tropical llamada Kakeroma, que se ubica justo al norte de Okinawa. En poco tiempo Toshio y Miho se enamoran. Una vez su relación esté ya asentada, Toshio se da cuenta que no ha perdido el apetito hacia el resto de mujeres.
Zegen
Art Direction
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.
Sound of the Tide
Art Direction
Japanese film based on the life of sculptor Eikichi Takahashi, who died as a soldier on Guadalcanal.
The Catch
Production Design
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
P. P. Rider
Production Design
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Art Direction
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
Exterminio (Virus)
Art Direction
El mundo sufre un auténtico apocalipsis a causa de la liberación accidental de un virus que había sido desarrollado como una letal arma biológica. En la Antártida, donde el intenso frío evita su proliferación, las personas que ahí se encuentran (principalmente científicos y militares) intentan organizarse para sobrevivir y repoblar el planeta. Esta versión japonesa de la película es considerada "de culto" habiéndose remasterizado para versiones en DVD y Bluray en esa nación asiática. El gobierno de Chile cooperó con la producción de esta película comisionando al submarino SS-21 Simpson, comandado por el Capitán de Fragata Carlos Toledo de la Maza, y al rompehielos BA Piloto Pardo, bajo el mando del Capitán de Fragata Roberto Suazo Francis, para apoyo logístico y artístico (el Simpson aparece caracterizado como un submarino inglés y luego uno ruso). Notables son las tomas exteriores del Territorio Antártico Chileno.
Gassan
Production Design
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Production Design
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Devil's Flute
Art Direction
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
Ecstasy of the Black Rose
Production Design
After his leading actress becomes pregnant and quits his sex film, Juzo becomes obsessed with finding a woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.
Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
Art Direction
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.
Light of Africa
Art Direction
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Joshidaisei: Môteru Utamaro asobi
Art Direction
Roman Porno from 1975.
Evening Primrose
Art Direction
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.
Virgin Blues
Art Direction
A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
La calle de la alegría
Art Direction
Es la tarde anterior al día que los burdeles deben cerrar obligatoriamente, de acuerdo a la nueva ley, de 1958. En Kofukuya (literalmente, la casa que vende la felicidad) cinco prostitutas deciden celebrar el día. Erotismo, drama y comedia se mezclan al mismo tiempo, a la vez que la historia de cada mujer sale a la superficie.
Younger Sister
Art Direction
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
Carousel Maki: Wet Affairs of the Night
Art Direction
Roman Porno from 1974.
Flower & Snake
Art Direction
Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.
The Key
Art Direction
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
The Family
Art Direction
Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Production Design
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Tsuma San-nin: Hada Kurabe
Art Direction
Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Tempestuous Skin
Art Direction
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Third and final film of the "Oman" series.
Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Tempestuous Skin
Production Design
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Third and final film of the "Oman" series.
Night of the Felines
Production Design
Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female sex workers, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Production Design
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
Dangerous Games
Art Direction
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yazuka. And more!
Men's Lifetime Dream-A Peep into A Women's Bathhouse
Art Direction
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Production Design
Keisuke Godai, head of the upstart Godai family conglomerate, plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
The Girl I Abandoned
Art Direction
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.
Neon taiheiki
Production Design
The Black Sheep
Art Direction
Japanese drama film.
Blood Shed
Production Design
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
Woman Gambler
Art Designer
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He's being pursued by a dangerous gang of yakuza.
Four Young Sisters
Art Direction
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Art Direction
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!
Nakamatachi
Art Department Manager
Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends who are always close to him. A movie adaptation of a hit song by Kazuo Funaki.
The Symbol of a Man
Art Direction
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
La juventud de la bestia
Production Design
Cuando un misterioso extraño se mete por medio de dos grupos yakuza rivales, la violencia explota en los bajos fondos de Tokyo.
Dawn of a Canvas
Art Direction
Kitakami yakyoku
Art Direction
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...