was a Japanese actress. Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950, and played supporting roles in some of

Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in t ...

's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half of the 20th century.

Selected filmography

Film

* (1950) * (1950) - Oroku * (1950) * (1950) * (1950) * (1951) - Kaoko Fukuda, Namiko's sister * '' Boyhood'' (1951) - Mrs. Yamazaki * (1951) - Tomie Honda * (1951) * (1952) - Mitsuyo * (1952) - Oryû * (1953) * ''

Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recogni ...

'' (1953) - Oden-ya no onna * (1953) - Osugi Morikawa * (1954) - Madame at bar * (1954) * (1955) - Hama Katagiri * (1955) * (1955) - Otsuko, second daughter * (1956) * (1956, part 1, 2) - Reiko * (1956) - Omutsu * (1956) - Sushi shop lady * (1956) * ''

Tokyo Twilight is a 1957 Japanese drama film by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the story of two sisters (played by Ineko Arima and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara) who are reunited with a mother who left them as children. The film is considered amongst Ozu's darkest postwar ...

'' (1957) * ''

Times of Joy and Sorrow ''Times of Joy and Sorrow'' (USA title), ''The Lighthouse'' (UK title), or , is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, who shot on location at 10 different lighthouses throughout Japan, including opening scenes at Kannonzaki, ...

'' (1957) * (1957) * (1958) * (1958) * (1958-1959, part 1, 2) * ''

Equinox Flower is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu which is based on a novel by Ton Satomi. Plot Wataru Hirayama (Shin Saburi) is a wealthy Tokyo businessman. When an old schoolmate Mikami ( Chishū Ryū) approaches him for help concerning ...

'' (1958) - Akemi * (1959) - Kikutarô * ''

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'' (1959) - Oden'ya no Nyôbô * ''High Teen'' (1959) - Tomiko, Hiroshi's mother * (1959) - Nobuko, Miyazaki's mother * (1959) * (1959) - Kansuirô maid * (1959) * (1959) - O-Katsu * (1960) * (1960) * '' Late Autumn'' (1960) * (1960) - Orin * '' Zero Focus'' (1961) * (1961) - Bar's madame * (1961, Serial) - Okane (Episode 1) * (1962) * (1962) * (1962) * (1962) * (1965) - Maid * (1965) * (1966) - Kayo Kashima * (1966) - Yoshi Okamoto * (1966) * (1967) * (1968) - Kura, Chiyo's mother * (1970) - Kane * (1970) - Mitsuko Masuda * (1975) * (1975) - Boarding House Landlady * (1983) - O-Tatsu * (1992) - Yuki Anayama * (1995) - Tomeno * ''

Give It All "Give It All" is a song by American rock band Rise Against. It was originally recorded for the 2004 compilation album '' Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1'', while a slightly altered version appeared on the band's third studio album '' Siren Song of t ...

'' (1998) - Fuki Shinomura * ''A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen'' (2000) * (2002) * (2004) - Tomi Furukawa * ''

Village Photobook is a 2004 Japanese drama film written and directed by Mitsuhiro Mihara. It won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Feature Film at the 2005 Shanghai International Film Festival. Cast *Tatsuya Fuji as Kenichi Takahashi *Ken Kaitō *Tomoyo Harada *Ma ...

'' (2004) * ''

Swing Girls is a Japanese 2004 teen comedy film directed and co-written by Shinobu Yaguchi. The plot follows a group of inept high school girls who form a big band. The cast includes Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya and Yukari To ...

'' (2004) - Tomoko's Grandmother (final film role)

Television

* ''

Playgirl ''Playgirl'' was an American magazine that featured general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to nude or semi-nude men. In the 1970s and 1980s, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although ...

'' (1969) - Grandmother * ''

Mito Kōmon is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-''sh ...

'' (1971–1985) * '' Ōoka Echizen'' (1972–1978) * ''

The Water Margin ''Water Margin'' (''Shuihu zhuan'') is one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin, and is attributed to Shi Nai'an. It is also translated as ''Outlaws of the Marsh'' and ''All Men Are Brothers''. The story, which is ...

'' (1973) * ''

G-Men '75 was a long-running prime-time popular television detective series in Japan. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:54 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network from May 24, 1975 to April 3, 1982. A sequel, ''G-Men ' ...

'' (1977) * ''

Princess Comet is a Japanese TV drama and manga series created and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, the creator of ''Tetsujin 28-go'' and '' Giant Robo''. The TV drama tells the story of Comet, one of the princesses of the Triangle Nebula who came to ...

'' (1978–1979) * '' Monkey'' (1978) * ''

Ōedo Sōsamō and are long-running (1970 to 1992) prime time television ''jidaigeki'' programs that originally aired from 1970 to 1992. The series was broadcast on TV Tokyo (Tokyo 12 Channel). The title literally translates as " Oedo Dragnet" ("New Oedo Dragne ...

'' (1984) * ''

Space Sheriff Shaider is a tokusatsu television show that aired from March 2, 1984 to March 8, 1985. It is the last of the "Space Sheriff Series" of the broader Metal Hero Series franchise, the previous two being '' Space Sheriff Gavan'' and ''Space Sheriff Sharivan ...

'' (1984)

References

External links

* https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757299/ Japanese film actresses 1921 births 2005 deaths 20th-century Japanese actresses {{Japan-film-actor-stub