Yōko Mihara
Acting
Born January 10, 1933, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Yōko Mihara (1/10/1933 – 7/1/2013) was a prominent Japanese actress, pin-up model, and dancer who became a top star of Shintoho studio's "sexy line" films. Active from the 1950s through the 1970s, she was celebrated as a rare glamour icon in Japanese cinema, frequently appearing in "Ero Guro" (erotic grotesque) and exploitation genres. She is widely recognized for her roles in notable films such as Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Sword of the Beast (1965), and Sex & Fury (1973).
Filmography
- 1987A Boy Named Hiroshima
- 1977Double Suicide at Nishijin — Toyo Oshima
- 1976Festival Champ
- 1975G-String Geisha — Kacho
- 1975The Wild Trucker
- 1974Military Comfort Woman — Hiroko
- 1974The Transgressor — Sadako Matsumara
- 1974Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs — Sesum, the Madame
- 1973Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
- 1973Hell Riders in Kyoto
- 1973Sex and Fury — Yaeji
- 1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group — Widowed Mother
- 1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
- 1973Three Little Geisha
- 1972Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion — Masaki / Red-Haired Bully
- 1972Girl Boss Guerilla — Kenshoni
- 1972Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
- 1972Sex Up and Down
- 1972Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
- 1972The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- 1972The Lucky Status Symbol
- 1972Turtle Geisha — Tomiko Yokomizo
- 1971Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
- 1971Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- 1971King of the Widow-Killers
- 1971Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger — Ayako
- 1971The Insatiable — Kinue Onozaki
- 1971The Secret Ceremony
- 1971The Viper Brothers
- 1971Wolves on Motorcycles
- 1970Hooligans on Buggies
- 1970King of the Night Life
- 1970Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return — Kimiko Igarashi
- 1970The Experience
- 1969Sex and Life
- 1969Wolf Escort
- 1968Blackmail Is My Life
- 1968Henchmen — Osumi
- 1968Hot Springs Geisha — Tomimaru
- 1968In Broad Daylight — Haruko Tomita
- 1968Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy — Oden-no-kata
- 1967Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
- 1967Express Train
- 1967Game of Chance 3
- 1966Convicted Woman — Kumemura
- 1966Nothing But Bones
- 1966Rampaging Dragon of the North
- 1966The Bullet and the Horse
- 1966Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza — Omatsu
- 1965A good guy - A mischievous genius — Geisha Harumi
- 1965Masseur War Story
- 1965Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 — Michiko
- 1965Sword of the Beast — Osen
- 1964An Outlaw — Myoran
- 1964Main Street in the Underworld
- 1964Storm Party
- 1964Three Outlaw Samurai — Omaki
- 196318 Roughs — Sumi Ishii
- 1963Blackmail
- 1963Eleven Gangsters — Mayumi
- 1963Song Festival — Kita-no-kata
- 1962A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
- 1962A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- 1962All Rascals
- 1962Black and Red Flower Petals
- 1962Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
- 1962I am the Judge
- 1962Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji
- 1962Ottamage ningyo monogatari
- 1962Shin kitsune to tanuki
- 1962Youth Season
- 1961A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- 1961Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
- 1961Counterattack of a Queen Bee — Tamami Sakura
- 1961Fire Line — Yumi
- 1961Sexy Line — Mayumi
- 1961Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide
- 1961The Catch — Sachiko Tsukada
- 1961Travels of Gonkuro
- 1961北上川悲歌 — Michiko's friend Akiko
- 1960Black Line — Maya
- 1960Cave Queens — Rumi
- 1960Female Slave Ship — Queen
- 1960Female Thief and the Bomb — Mari
- 1960Kenjū to bakusō — Akemi
- 1960Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu — Tamami Sakura
- 1960Vengeful Beast
- 1960Women of Whirlpool Island — Yuri Mayama
- 1960Yellow Line — Emi Ozuki
- 1960凸凹珍道中
- 1960弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
- 1959Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Chests Covered In Fresh Blood
- 1959Crazy Desire
- 1959Elegy of a Geisha
- 1959Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
- 1959Haunted Cave — Kyôko Niki
- 1959Judo Queen
- 1959The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin — Mieko Suzuki
- 1959The Challenge of the Female Spy Akatsuki
- 1959The Lady Vampire — Miwako Matsumura
- 1959Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū — Gambling woman
- 1958Flesh Pier
- 1958Ghost in the Regiment — Koran
- 1958Holiday in Japan
- 1958Nude Model Murder Case — Mariko
- 1958Queen Bee — Maki
- 1958Queen Bee's Anger — Kyôko
- 1958Secret White Line Zone
- 1958Soldiers' Girls
- 1958Star Poisoning Case
- 1958Underwater Murder — Sada
- 1957Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
- 1956The Fencing Collegian
- 1955The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- 1954Carbine of Fear
- 1954Kenkyō edo-murasaki
- 1954Koina no Ginpei
- 1953Love Letter
- 1952Dimple of Tokyo