Yumiko Nogawa (野川由美子 Nogawa Yumiko) (born August 30, 1944) is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan.[1] She has starred in several movies, notably Gate of Flesh (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including Story of a Prostitute (1965) and Carmen from Kawachi (1966), these films are known as Nogawa's "Flesh Trilogy".[2] Nogawa has appeared in numerous films in Japan, including director Nagisa Oshima's The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) and Zatoichi & the Fugitives (1968), the eighteenth film in the Zatoichi series.[3] She has also appeared in television series on Nippon Television, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV, and NHK.[4]