Ryuko Azuma

Nascimento : 1917-01-10, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

História

14-year Ryuko debuted in "Yoake" from Kawai Film Company. Two years later she made appearances in three films starred 27-year Ichikawa Tomonsuke who has distribution partnership with Kawai. In 11 years when Kawai Films became Daito Films and later Daiei, Ryuko appeared in 215 films. From 1955 to 1965 Ryuko Azuma and her husband Kusuo Abe work for Toei films.

Filmes

The Story of a Man Among Men
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
The Story of a Geisha
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
The International Gang of Kobe
Fusa
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
Death at an Old Mansion
Itoko Ichiyanagi
When a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective (Akira Nakao) to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the inner lives of the two.
Street Fighter: A Vingança
Kunigami's Mother
Terry Sugury é contratado para recuperar uma de duas fitas que contém a fórmula para se fazer heroína por um preço de 200 dólares por quilo. Mas ele é enganado e agora quer a fita de volta.
Luta Sem Código de Honra
Kunihiro Tome, Suzue's mother
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Hikage-Mono
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Tatsumi
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
The Pledge
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
Jûroku-sai no keiken
Pinku from 1970.
The Cross of Vengeance
Film with Junko Miyazono.
Yakuza on Foot
Eiho Ri
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
Gambling Den's Master Clan
Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
Pântano Amaldiçoado
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
一心太助 江戸っ子祭り
お豊
Three Gamblers
Sumiko
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Three Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Blind Monk Swordsman
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death” who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and Tomisaburo Wakayama. Apparently so. And the swordsman motif seems to have been concurrent with Daiei's first ZATOICHI production.
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
Blind Wolf
Road In the Mist
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death.
Love And Order
Shimmering Sword
Sakura Official
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.
Bride of White Castle
Otoshi
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.
Case of a Young Lord 8
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's Council of Elders. Young Lord decides to take on the Shogun's vile chief attendant.
An Actor's Revenge
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid expression of his stage face is a deep grudge for the men responsible for dishonoring his parents' names and leading them to suicide when he was still a child. When he discovers that the mastermind behind those crimes has come to see him act onstage, he begins in earnest to plot his revenge. With the help of a renowned Robin Hood-like thief named Yamitaro, he makes out his first target: the daughter of the man who orchestrated his parents' demise.
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi's fiancee, Otoyo, was a chambermaid whom Kawakatsu abducted in order to make her his concubine and Tasuke feels compelled to right this wrong. Meanwhile Kawakatsu is dealing in black-market lumber and receiving kick-backs but unbeknownst to him he is under investigation by Lord Izu, one of the Shogun Elders. Will Tasuke be able to rescue Otoyo from the clutches of Lord Kawakatsu and can Lord Izu put an end to his money hungry evildoings.
Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
film directed by Tai Katô
Trouble Over Swords and Women:  A Woman's Mind
Jūrokumon karasudō: Sennin higan
Okichi
Japanese film.