Yumiko Katayama
Birthday: 1949-12-18 Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Synopsis
Yumiko Katayama was born on December 18, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan. She is an actress, known for Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai (1971) and Horrors of Malformed Men (1969).
Acting
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
Horrors of Malformed Men
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
