is a Japanese actress. She was born in

Otaru, Hokkaidō is a city and port in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo. The city faces Ishikari Bay and the Sea of Japan, and has long served as the main port of the bay. With its many historical buildings, Otaru is a popular tou ...

, and raised in

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

. She was married to director

Juzo Itami , born , was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films (one short and ten features), all of which he wrote himself. Early life Itami was born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in Kyoto. The name Itami was passed on from his fath ...

from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress

Japanese Academy Awards The , often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本アカデミー賞協会, ''Nippon Akademii- ...

, winning in 1988 for her role in '' A Taxing Woman''.

Selected filmography

Film

*''

Lost Sex is a 1966 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. Cast * Hideo Kanze as The Master * Nobuko Otowa as The Housemaid * Eimei Esumi as Young man in the village * Daigo Kusano as Young man in the village * Nobuko Miyamoto as You ...

'' (1966) *'' The Funeral'' (1984) *''

Tampopo is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen western", a play on the term Spaghetti Weste ...

'' (1985) *'' A Taxing Woman'' (1987) *''

A Taxing Woman's Return is a 1988 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami. It is the sequel to Itami's 1987 comedy ''A Taxing Woman''. Nobuko Miyamoto plays female government tax investigator Ryoko Itakura. She investigates a religious sect, led by Te ...

'' (1988) *''

Sweet Home Sweet Home or Sweethome may refer to: Places in the United States * Sweet Home, Arkansas * Sweet Home Central School District in Amherst and Tonawanda, New York ** Sweet Home High School (Amherst, New York), a New York State public high school * ...

'' (1989) as Akiko Hayakawa *'' A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha'' (1990) *''

Minbo is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles ''Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion'', ''The Gangster's Moll'' and ''The Anti-Extortion Woman''. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical succe ...

'' (1992) *''

Daibyonin , also known as ''The Last Dance'' and more rarely ''The Seriously Ill'', is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Juzo Itami about the final year of a successful film director suffering from cancer. The film can be seen as a criticism of the traditi ...

'' (1993) *'' Supermarket Woman'' (1996) *''Woman in Witness Protection'' (1997) *''

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald Films directed by Kōki Mitani Japanese comedy films 1990s Japanese-language films 1997 films Films with screenplays by Kôki Mitani Films scored by Takayuki Hattori ...

'' (1997) *'' Hankyu Railways: A 15-Minute Miracle'' (2011) as Tokie Hagiwara *''Strawberry Song'' (2019) *''

Stand by Me Doraemon 2 is a 2020 Japanese 3D computer animated science fiction comedy film based on the ''Doraemon'' manga series and a sequel to the previous movie, the 2014 film ''Stand by Me Doraemon''. Directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki, it is primari ...

'' (2020) *''It's a Flickering Life'' (2021) as Yoshiko *''

BL Metamorphosis is a Japanese manga series by Kaori Tsurutani. ''BL Metamorphosis'' was serialized digitally in the monthly manga magazine ''Comic Newtype'' from November 17, 2017 to October 9, 2020. A live-action film adaptation premiered on June 17, 202 ...

'' (2022) as Yuki Ichinoi *''Haw'' (2022)

Television

*'' Uchi no Ko ni Kagitte...'' (1984) *''Mōri Motonari'' (1997), Tae *''

Manten is a Japanese television drama series, the 67th Asadora series broadcast on NHK. It was aired on September 30, 2002 and ended on March 29, 2003. The drama tells about a young woman who studies to become a meteorologist. Plot Cast Main cha ...

'' (2002–03) *''

Tenchijin is a 2009 Japanese super historical drama television series, and the 48th taiga drama of NHK. It aired every Sunday from January 4 to November 22, 2009, spanning 47 episodes.It is an unusual Taiga Drama as the final episode will be broadcast as ...

'' (2009), narrator *''

Amachan is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 1, 2013, and was broadcast until September 28, 2013. It was scripted by Kankurō Kudō and starred Rena Nōnen as Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo who moves to the Sanriku Coast i ...

'' (2013) *'' Botchan'' (2016) *''

Hiyokko is a Japanese television drama series and the 96th asadora series, following '' Beppinsan''. It was premiered on April 3, 2017, and ended on September 30, 2017. Plot Mineko Yatabe is a teenager living in a very rural area of Ibaraki Prefecture i ...

'' (2017), Suzuko *''

In This Corner of the World is a manga series written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno which ran from 2007 to 2009 in ''Weekly Manga Action''. It follows the life of Suzu Urano, a young bride with her new family living on the outskirts of Kure City during the Secon ...

'' (2018), Ito Morita *''Hiyokko 2'' (2019), Suzuko *''House of Ninjas'' (2024), Taki Tawara

Honours

Medal with Purple Ribbon are medals awarded by the Government of Japan. They are awarded to individuals who have done meritorious deeds and also to those who have achieved excellence in their field of work. The Medals of Honor were established on December 7, 1881, and we ...

(2014) *Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2022) * Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2022)

References

External links

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Nobuko Miyamoto's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)
1945 births Living people 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses People from Otaru People from Nagoya Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class {{Japan-actor-stub