Kazuko Shirakawa

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Biography

Kazuko Shirakawa (born September 30, 1947) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno films during the 1970s. She appeared in Nikkatsu's first film in the Roman Porno series, Apartment Wife (1971), and is considered the first of the three "Nikkatsu Queens" of the 1970s. After 1976 she embarked on a successful career in mainstream film.

Known For

After Life

Nobuko Amano

House of Ninjas

Old Woman Fuma

Vengeance Is Mine

Sachiko

Black Rain

Old Woman with White Flag

Radiance

Yasuko Ozaki

The Devil's Path

Yurie Ushiba

Vision

Self

The Family Game

Mieko's Mother

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Mr. Shota's Last Business Trip MOVIE	Self
2026	Kaneko Fumiko MOVIE	Self
2025	Sunset Sunrise MOVIE	Murayama Shigeko
2024	The Old One TV	Self
2024	House of Ninjas TV	Old Woman Fuma
2023	Corpo a Corpo MOVIE	Self
2023	Six Singing Women MOVIE	Sugita
2023	Picture of Spring MOVIE	Kinuyo Hongo
2023	ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止 MOVIE	Self
2023	War of Traps TV	Self
2023	Thorns of Love MOVIE	Self
2022	Onpaku MOVIE	Self
2021	Struggling Man MOVIE	Self
2019	The Nikaidos' Fall MOVIE	Haru Nikaido
2018	Vision MOVIE	Self
2018	I Will Never Forgive MOVIE	Self
2018	Roupeiro's Melancholy MOVIE	Self
2017	Radiance MOVIE	Yasuko Ozaki
2017	Dawn of the Felines MOVIE	Madam of SM Club
2016	Night's Tightrope MOVIE	Masayo Mizumori
2013	The Devil's Path MOVIE	Yurie Ushiba
2013	Before the Vigil MOVIE	Self
2011	Dendera MOVIE	Hono Ishizuka
2011	2 Channel no Noroi - VOL. 3 MOVIE	Self
2011	Cannonball Wedlock MOVIE	Self
2010	Housewife's Afternoon Delight MOVIE	President of water purifier company
2008	Osaka Hamlet MOVIE	Yae
2007	The Lawyer of Shimane MOVIE	Kawada Kimie
2003	Fujin Volleyball: Mamas Attack MOVIE	Self
2002	Blessing Bell MOVIE	Bar Owner
2002	AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo TV	Self
2002	The Erotic Empire MOVIE	self
2001	Lily Festival MOVIE	Renako Yokota
2001	Love and Life in the White TV	岩崎ミツ
2000	The Password is Courage TV	Self
1999	In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense MOVIE	Kaoru Hayakawa
1999	After Life MOVIE	Nobuko Amano
1997	Rookie Cop TV	Self
1997	ストーカー逃げきれぬ愛 TV	Umi and Sora's Mother
1995	Teito Monogatari Gaiden MOVIE	Self
1995	Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!! Socho saigo no hi MOVIE	Self
1995	Western-style Village Murder Case MOVIE	Mitsuko Fuyuki
1995	The Files of the Young Kindaichi TV	Mitsuko Fuyuki
1995	The Stairway to the Distant Past MOVIE	Sachiko Shibata
1994	Yoru ni Dakarete TV	川濑芙美
1994	Natsuko no Sake TV	Self
1992	Sosuke Loses His Lover MOVIE	Tamae
1992	Execution In Daytime MOVIE	Self
1990	Swimming Upstream MOVIE	Babah, Kaoru's Grandmother
1990	Don't Mind MOVIE	Self
1989	Black Rain MOVIE	Old Woman with White Flag
1988	That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses MOVIE	Self
1987	Luminous Woman MOVIE	Self
1986	Apartment Wife: Serial Murders MOVIE	Self
1985	Spring Bell MOVIE	Toyoko
1984	Someday, Someone Will Be Killed MOVIE	Self
1984	Serial Killer: Coldblooded MOVIE	Self
1984	Mitsugetsu MOVIE	Wife of Brokerage Firm President
1984	Tokimeki Kaigan Monogatari MOVIE	Self
1983	Meitantei Kindaichi Kōsuke TV	Self
1983	Women’s Secrets Behind Bars MOVIE	Self
1983	Kawasaki Vice Squad MOVIE	Self
1983	The Family Game MOVIE	Mieko's Mother
1983	Praying Mantis MOVIE	Mrs. Matsumiya
1983	Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series TV	Sakie Nirei
1982	Farewell to the Land MOVIE	Prayer
1981	The Wild Daisy MOVIE	Sei Tomura
1981	Eijanaika MOVIE	Yamikumo-dayu
1979	The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map MOVIE	Self
1979	Vengeance Is Mine MOVIE	Sachiko
1978	The Young Animals MOVIE	Self
1977	The Story of a Geisha MOVIE	Self
1976	The Youth Killer MOVIE	Keiko's Mother
1975	Nihon porno-shi: Nureba katsudô daishashin MOVIE	Self
1973	Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa MOVIE	Kazuko Shirakawa
1973	Did the Red Bird Escape? MOVIE	Self
1973	Overly-Ripe Breasts: Married Women MOVIE	Haruko Maruoka
1973	The Hotspring Resort Masseuse MOVIE	Aiko
1973	Apartment Wife: Night of the Rape MOVIE	Teruko Tokura
1972	Afternoon Affair: Rear Window MOVIE	Ayuko Fukuzawa
1972	Ichijo's Wet Lust MOVIE	Mari
1972	The Sloe-eyed Siren MOVIE	Natsuko Maki(萬木夏子)
1972	The Superhuman Stud MOVIE	Kayoko
1972	Manatsu no Yoru no Jôji MOVIE	Misa
1972	The Shadow on the Wall MOVIE	Kyôko Munakata
1972	The Love Sorceress MOVIE	Yasuko Makimura
1972	Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous MOVIE	Nobuko Kosaka
1972	Night and Day MOVIE	Shodai Ôhori
1972	Silent Tears MOVIE	Harue(春江)
1972	Drifter's Affair MOVIE	Hiroko(弘子)
1972	Dewdrops on the Petals MOVIE	Akiko
1972	Affair at Twilight MOVIE	Reiko(秋津令子)
1971	Nihon porno Olympic: Chikubi-yama no seien MOVIE	Self
1971	Thirsty for Love MOVIE	Kanako Yajima(矢島哲次)
1971	Apartment Wife: Affair in the Afternoon MOVIE	Ritsuko Kasai
1971	Body Wash MOVIE	Yukari
1971	Secrets of Sex MOVIE	Self
1970	History of Japanese Night Crawling Customs MOVIE	Performer
1970	Iro manbiki MOVIE	Self
1970	Onna-yu, onna-yu, onna-yu MOVIE	Self
1969	Oiroke tenshi MOVIE	Self
1969	Writhing Hill Secret Club MOVIE	Self
1969	Lewd Priest: Forty-Eight Positions Cutting MOVIE	Self
1968	History of Japanese Sexual Crimes: Assault Demons in Broad Daylight MOVIE	Self
1968	Sex Drive MOVIE	High school coed, Mari
1968	All the Tricks in Life MOVIE	Self
1968	Chibusa no mitsuryô MOVIE	Self
1967	A Pit MOVIE	Self
1967	Impotent MOVIE	High school girl
1967	Girls' Dormitory MOVIE	Ayumi

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