Masako Yagi
Acting
Biography
Masako Yagi was a Japanese vocalist and actress.
Born: September 2, 1938
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
Haru
A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.
Sleeping Man
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
Muddy River
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
Eros + Massacre
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Buddies
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.
Coup d'Etat
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
The Petrified Forest
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
Filmography
as Haruma's Mother
as Geisha
as Tatsuo's Sister
as Aiba's Wife
as Shinpei's First Wife
as Heigo's sister
as Fumiko Nishimoto
as Yasuko Hori
as Tokiko
as Shizuko