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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Kazuko Yoshiyuki has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Kikujiro.
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Drama · Horror

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.
Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi · With Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Dir. Norio Tsuruta · With Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Kazuhiro Yamaji

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Dir. Nagisa Ōshima · With Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji

as Aya Tokunaga
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
Dir. Toshiya Fujita · With Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki