Misako Watanabe
Acting
Biography
Misako Watanabe (渡辺美佐子) (b. 23 October 1932) is a Japanese actress. She is a graduate of the Haiyuza Theatre Company. In 1997 she received a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon and in 2004 the Order of the Rising Sun.
Born: October 23, 1932
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Ohisama
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yoko Sudo (Mao Inoue) through World War II. Yoko Sudo with her smile is able to bring brightness to those around her & she follows her mother's motif to laugh through the hard times. During the onset of WW II, Yoko is a high school student and "Ohisama" follows her as she eventually becomes a teacher and then gets married and has a child. Yoko then opens a soba restaurant with her student. --asianwiki
Red Suspicion
Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her boyfriend is really her half brother.
Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
Haru and Natsu
As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all contact, each must make her own way in an unforgiving world. Hardships abound in the struggle to survive in war-torn Japan and in the face of anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil, financial ruin, familial pressure, abandonment and lost love. However they also experience the precious joy of survival and success. Now, after 70 years, Haru comes back to Japan to find her estranged sister.
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Psycho Doctor
Frost
Shun is a young man, who sells his paintings on a city corner. Kasumi is a children's story writer, living alone in a mountain in Shinsyuu. One day, they happen to meet each other in the city crowd, and they immediately connect. However, they must first deal with Shun's childhood abuse which has left him unstable.
Cat Soup Theater
23 animated shorts based on Nekojiru, aired as part of "Bokusho Mondai Boss Chara Ou"
Midnight Diner 2
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Filmography
as Old Lady at the Watch Shop
as Kazuko Tanaka
as Aya Kusakabe (1989)
as Yukiko Ogawa
as Akane Todo
as Some Karashima
as Take
as Aya Sakamoto
as Fujiko Kirino
as Shibata
as Nobu Takakura
as Haru Kakihara
as Toshiko Minagawa
as Principal Makino
as Mrs. Yoshimura
as Kinu
as 長坂アイ
as Narrator (voice)
as Kimiko Yoshioka
as Tugumi's Mother
as 養母・勢子
as Sadako Takeda
as Harue Matsubara
as Harue Bessho - Chi'e's Mother
as Woman of the story
as Yukiko Takayama
as Kuriko
as Narrator
as Mie
as Okiwa
as as Mie Kaneko
as Fumiko Ôki
as Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
as Asako Shiraishi
as Yasu, Sajiemon's wife
as Kumiko Takeshita
as Nanae Igami
as Setsuko
as Kamegoro's wife
as Kawara's wife Rie
as Shima Kajimoto
as Tomiko Haraguchi
as Shinobu Yamaki
as Yûko Hamajima
as Yoshiko Shiota
as Yoriko
as Rie
as Sakiko, the Tanigawas' daughter-in-law
as Shima
as Yuriko
as Yuriko Kawakami
as Tokie
as Junko Takeyama
as 千代
as Noriko Izumitani
as Noriko Izumitani
as Motoko Sayama