Ryoko Yonekura

Ryoko Yonekura

Ryoko Yonekura (米倉 涼子 Yonekura Ryōko, born August 1, 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model best known for her role in the Japanese medical drama Doctor-X. Yonekura studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. Represented by the Oscar Promotion agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993, she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as CanCam. She announced her intention to start her acting career in June 1999. Her acting debut was in the TBS television drama Koi no Kamisama (God of Love), and has appeared in many dramas ever since. Yonekura played the role of Roxie Hart in the Japanese-language production of Chicago in Tokyo 2008 and in 2010. She then learned the role in English and made her Broadway debut in 2012, reprising her role in July 2017. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: Ryoko Yonekura
  • Popularity: 16.459
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1975-08-01
  • Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
  • Homepage: http://www.oscarpro.co.jp/#/profile/entry/262
  • Also Known As: Yonekura Ryoko, よねくら りょうこ, Ryôko Yonekura , Ryōko Yonekura, 米倉 涼子, 米仓 凉子, Ryouko Yonekura
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Ryoko Yonekura Movies

  • 2015
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    The Housekeeper Saw!

    The Housekeeper Saw!

    1 2015 HD

    Sawagura Nobuko is back housekeeping again in this sequel to the 2014 SP! This time around Nobuko, having been given some pearl earrings as a present...

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  • 2004
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    Bewitched in Tokyo SP

    Bewitched in Tokyo SP

    1 2004 HD

    Christmas Special following the series.

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  • 2002
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    Gun Crazy: Episode 1: A Woman from Nowhere

    Gun Crazy: Episode 1: A Woman from Nowhere

    4.6 2002 HD

    A mysterious stranger comes into a lawless town run by a kingpin and starts shooting up the place.

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  • 2016
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    Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special

    Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special

    6 2016 HD

    Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic...

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  • 2010
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    The Negotiator: The Movie

    The Negotiator: The Movie

    5.8 2010 HD

    ¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko...

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  • 2008
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    The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming

    The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming

    6 2008 HD

    Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story...

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  • 2016
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    Stop the Old Fox

    Stop the Old Fox

    1 2016 HD

    After the sudden death of her adoptive father Shimada Mataemon, Nui, whose own father met an untimely death when he was about to expose the...

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  • 2006
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    The Da Vinci Code Mystery Special

    The Da Vinci Code Mystery Special

    1 2006 HD

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  • 2005
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    A Hardest Night!!

    A Hardest Night!!

    6.2 2005 HD

    A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous...

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  • 2024
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    Doctor X: The Movie

    Doctor X: The Movie

    1 2024 HD

    The star-studded casts of the drama series come together for the highly anticipated movie adaptation of "Doctor X"! The secret of Michiko Daimon is...

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  • 2014
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    Out Burn

    Out Burn

    7 2014 HD

    Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized...

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  • 2012
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    The Housekeeper

    The Housekeeper

    1 2012 HD

    Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Inamura residence in Tokyo. The Inamuras are a...

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  • 2014
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    Housekeeper the Peeper

    Housekeeper the Peeper

    7 2014 HD

    Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact...

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  • 2014
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    Tsuyoki ari

    Tsuyoki ari

    1 2014 HD

    Based on the novel "Tsuyoki Ari" by Seicho Matsumoto In her past, Isako Sawada ran a restaurant. She then met Nobuhiro who is 31 years older than her...

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  • 2019
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    Giwaku

    Giwaku

    7 2019 HD

    Sahara Takako is a lawyer who specialises in civil cases. She hates to lose and will use whatever means necessary to pursue the truth. Despite her...

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  • 2001
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    Cardboard House Girl

    Cardboard House Girl

    1 2001 HD

    The story of a woman who lost everything.

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  • 2001
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    Love Revolution

    Love Revolution

    7 2001 HD

    A doctor at a prestigious Tokyo hospital is feeling dissatisfied with her life. Though she has a successful career, she sees her friends with...

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  • 2000
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    Weather Forecaster's Lover

    Weather Forecaster's Lover

    1 2000 HD

    Yano Katsuhiko, a weather forecaster who is divorced and is introduced by his friend, Taguchi to popular radio DJ Yukawa Sachi aka "Love Specialist"....

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  • 2000
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    Marriage at Twenty

    Marriage at Twenty

    1 2000 HD

    Although marriage is the farthest thing from her mind, Renko meets a special person on her twentieth birthday and starts to seriously think about...

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  • 2006
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    Time of Distrust ~ Women's Wars

    Time of Distrust ~ Women's Wars

    1 2006 HD

    Asai Michiko is a 28-year old housewife. Her husband is 38-year old Yoshio, who works at an advertisement agency. Five years into their marriage,...

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  • 2004
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    The Black Leather Notebook

    The Black Leather Notebook

    8 2004 HD

    Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire… How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into...

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  • 2003
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    Musashi

    Musashi

    8.333 2003 HD

    Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing...

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  • 2012
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    Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

    Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

    7.448 2012 HD

    Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from...

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  • 2001
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    Unmarried Family

    Unmarried Family

    1 2001 HD

    Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family...

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  • 2007
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    Evil People

    Evil People

    8 2007 HD

    Toyomi Terajima (Ryoko Yonekura) chose to become a nurse because she had no interest in marriage and wanted an occupation she could do for the rest...

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  • 2006
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    The Animal Trail

    The Animal Trail

    6 2006 HD

    Animal Trail, a natural path made by traffic of wild animals, can sometimes be helpful for people who are totally lost in the wilderness. One day, a...

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  • 2002
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    Artificial Beauty

    Artificial Beauty

    1 2002 HD

    Honami Saotome seems to have the ideal life, working as a fashion model. Behind her perfect face is an unfortunate girl who born into a family that...

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  • 2000
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    Straight News

    Straight News

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2000
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    Cupid's Arrows

    Cupid's Arrows

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2011
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    HUNTER - Women After Reward Money

    HUNTER - Women After Reward Money

    8 2011 HD

    On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1...

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  • 2013
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    No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35

    No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35

    6.6 2013 HD

    The drama will center around how a 35 year old changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark...

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  • 2008
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    Monster Parent

    Monster Parent

    7 2008 HD

    Monster parents-a neologism that denotes parents who repeatedly make unreasonable demands to their children’s school and prevent it from...

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  • 2007
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    Over-the-Shoulder Lover

    Over-the-Shoulder Lover

    8 2007 HD

    This is the dramatized version of the Naoki Award-winning novel by author, Kei Yuikawa. Moe Hayasaka is an office worker in an import service company...

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  • 2002
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    Pretty Girls

    Pretty Girls

    1 2002 HD

    Looking for a job, Hana gets work at the Andrews Department Store, but her boss hates her and gives her impossible work to do. Her bubbly nature and...

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  • 2010
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    HUNT - Tax Investigation Officer

    HUNT - Tax Investigation Officer

    1 2010 HD

    National tax investigator Matsuko Matsudaira is transferred to Tokyo office for chase Tax evaders. Her new style of chasing the taxe evader with...

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  • 2008
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    The Negotiator

    The Negotiator

    6.7 2008 HD

    In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan...

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  • 2005
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    Haru and Natsu

    Haru and Natsu

    7.8 2005 HD

    As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all...

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  • 2005
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    Matrilineal Family

    Matrilineal Family

    1 2005 HD

    A generations old family business is sent into turmoil when the sudden death of the head of the family opens the door to a fierce struggle between...

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  • 2004
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    Bewitched In Tokyo

    Bewitched In Tokyo

    1 2004 HD

    Arisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she uses is faulty and she winds up in Japan. There she...

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  • 2022
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    The Journalist

    The Journalist

    7.6 2022 HD

    A journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit movie of the same name.

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  • 2016
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    Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~

    Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~

    6.5 2016 HD

    A "Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon" spinoff starring Masanobu Katsumura as surgeon Hideki Kaji, the "wizard of laparoscopy."

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  • 2018
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    Legal V

    Legal V

    7.2 2018 HD

    Takanashi Shoko is a former lawyer. She was disbarred from the law profession due to an incident. Later, she persuades a university professor, who is...

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  • 2014
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    松本清張 強き蟻

    松本清張 強き蟻

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2014
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    Sock or Hat?

    Sock or Hat?

    1 2014 HD

    The crazy popular, wildly mundane game show where celebrities guess if it's a sock or a hat. Really, that's it.

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  • 2023
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    Angel Flight

    Angel Flight

    1 2023 HD

    Ryoko Yonekura stars in this series written by Ryota Kosawa about specialists who transport the deceased back home. The company Angel Hearse is run...

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  • 2008
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    Flower of Ice

    Flower of Ice

    9 2008 HD

    Seno Kyoko is a pianist who receives an inheritance from her uncle, and begins living happily with her husband. But one day, she receives a phone...

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