Mitsuko Baisho
Acting
Biography
Mitsuko Baisho (born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a noted Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2002. Baisho has also been in films of Akira Kurosawa. She also won the awards for best actress at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Love Letter and Ikiteru uchi ga hana nano yo shindara sore made yo to sengen.She also won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for The Geisha and at the 22nd Hochi Film Award for Tokyo Lullaby. Her sister is actress-singer Chieko Baisho.
Born: November 22, 1946
Place of Birth: Ibaraki, Japan
Known For
Time Never Stops
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film depicts the collapse and rebirth of two families whose children were supposed to marry each other. A moving drama written by Yamada Taichi and starring Nakai Kiichi, Kuroki Meisa and Kamiki Ryunosuke.
Theater Of Life
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
Dendera
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
Ryōmaden
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
Bōkyō
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a city on the opposite shore. Housewife Misato Tomita lives on the island. "Umi no hoshi" Yōhei Hamasaki, who was born on Shiratsuna Island, lives in an apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo with his wife, Tomomi, and their son, Taichi. "Kumo no ito" Popular artist Hirotaka Kurosaki, who is a native of Shiratsuna Island, goes back to his hometown after seven years.
The Instant Services Bureau
Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.
Ruri's Island
Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
Suzuran
In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a small country station, a passenger finds an abandoned baby and rushes to tell the station master, Tokiwa Jiro. The news quickly spreads and soon friends of Tokiwa's along with other townsfolk are saying that this baby must be a gift, it is Tokiwa's recently departed beloved wife reborn as a baby.
Hanzawa Naoki
Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's branch manager is Asano. He is an ambitious man and tries to shift the blame to Hanzawa. Hanzawa then attends an inquiry about the loan failure at the bank's headquarters in Tokyo. Hanzawa denies fault and promises to retrieve the 500 million yen loan. He did this because it's the only way for Hanzawa to survive as a banker.
Filmography
as Sae Yukino
as Sachie Muranaka
as Setsuko
as Gin Gotô
as Sachiko Naruse
as Yasuko Miyama
as Kei Tōshima
as Kazuko Sato
as Setsuko Murata
as Koumoto Keiko
as Harue Tokai
as Miyuki
as Miyuki (old)
as Takajo Waka
as (segment "Mikan no hana")
as Katsu Seyama
as Masako
as Otsu
as Iku Hamaguchi
as Harue Fujishima
as Natsuko Hane
as Mysterious Woman
as Ikuko Omura
as Donbaa
as Ryoko Yokote
as Yokote Ryoko
as 下村正枝
as Masari Shiina
as Chiyo Morikawa, the Mother-in-Law
as Yorinobu Mizuno
as Fumiyo Hara
as Kageko Sada
as Namiko Yoshida
as Chinatsu Aida
as Eiko Nakagawa
as The Mistress (voice)
as Asako Fujisawa
as Nakama Megumi
as Yoshie 'Sensei' Azuma
as Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
as Masae Murakami
as Mitsu Aizawa
as Mori Satoko
as Fuki Kawamoto
as Yukiko Yoshiyama
as Hisako Hamanaka
as Misako Nakajima
as Reiko Sakuhara（朔原 令子）
as Naoko Yazawa
as 高倉リュウ
as Mother of 'I'
as Takako Demachi
as Shota's mother
as Ofuku
as Shiho
as Megumi Nanbu
as Kyoko Takehara
as Akai Shima
as Haruko Nakamichi
as Saeko Kobayashi
as Osodé
as Oei
as Ikuko
as Orin
as Oko
as Oyunokata
as Masako Aiki
as Kazuko Enokizu
as Omatsu
as Self
as Merry
as Sumiko Miyajima - The Actress
as Chikuzan's 2nd wife
as Otsuki Kyoko
as Hideko Hanada
as Akemi
as Ponta
as Haruko
as Aka Shu
as Miyo
as Aiko
as Onimo
as Yachiyo Kawada