Yōko Tsukasa
Yōko Aizawa (相澤 葉子, Aizawa Yōko, born August 20, 1934) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Blue Ribbon Awards for Kinokawa. She is a professor at Tokyo University of Social Welfare and serves as the 2nd head of Nihon Taishōmura theme park. Born as Yōko Shōji (庄司 葉子) in Tottori Prefecture, to a family of cotton merchants who had settled in Yumihama. Her family is a branch of the Shōji family, the landed magnate of Watari. She married politician and attorney Hideyuki Aizawa. Their son Hiromitsu married singer and actress Shoko Aida. She's been awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2003) and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2010).
Yojimbo
as NuiA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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Samurai Rebellion
as Ichi SasaharaThe mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The...
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The End of Summer
as NorikoThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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Late Autumn
as Ayako MiwaA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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47 Ronin
as Aguri AsanoAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Goyokin
as ShinoA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Admiral Yamamoto
as Sumie KimuraAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
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Two in the Shadow
as YumikoA man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him...
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Island of Hell
as KatsunoA scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
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Queen Bee
as TsutayoTo solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - ActressAn account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Nobuo NishiyamaProfessor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as TsuneNear the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards...
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The Three Treasures
as Princess Oto TachibanaThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as uncreditedJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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The Kii River
as Shintani HanaEpic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and...
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Moment of Terror
as Kinuko KakinumaWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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The Wiser Age
as Netsuke IshikawaDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Price of Beauty
as Chikako Izumi / SallyMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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The Last Gunfight
as SallyJapanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the...
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Summer Clouds
as MicikoA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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The President Talks Bank
as uncreditedThe president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
as TazuLord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men,...
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Samurai Saga
as Lady Ochii / Princess ChiyoEdmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Kojiro
as NamiSasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with...
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The Daphne
as Umeko (the second daughter)Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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The Blue Beast
as uncreditedTatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses...
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Fukumimi
as uncredited29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight...
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The Angry Sea
as Sasko KanamoriA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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A Night in Hong Kong
as Keiko KimuraRomantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
as Miyako FujimuraA woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother...
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Back Stairways
as uncreditedA young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the...
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Challenge to Live
as uncreditedAn employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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I Hear the Whistle
as Hatsue SugimotoTells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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The Third President
as uncreditedThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Woman of Design
as Ritsuko YadaStory of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a...
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No Response from Car 33
as uncreditedFilm directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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City of Love
as Aiko HayakawaAiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and...
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
as uncreditedThe life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for...
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Blue Jeans Memory
as uncreditedA trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that...
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The President's Boss
as uncreditedA new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former...
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Flower Shop Curtain
as KyokoThe movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant...
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Nagare no fu dai ichibu dōran dai ni bu yoake sakuhin jōhō
as uncreditedAn epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations...
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Haru no Sakamichi
as Lady KasugaThe story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.
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Epic Chushingura
as Oishi RikuDaichūshingura is a television dramatization of the events of the Forty-seven Ronin. The first...
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