Nobuko Otowa
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nobuko Otowa (1 October 1925 – 22 December 1994) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō. She posthumously won the award for best supporting actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for A Last Note, having been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer during its production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuko Otowa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born: October 1, 1925
Place of Birth: Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love.
Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
The Heart
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be attracted towards Iko, the beautiful daughter of their landlady.
The Life of Chikuzan
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.
Filmography
as Okaji
as Toyoko Yanagawa
as Densuke's mother
as Masa
as 朝比奈容子
as Tomi Izeki
as Mistress
as Mother
as Namie Yasui
as Yasuko Moto
as Ume
as Tei Ishikawa
as Katsue
as Hideyo, after age 40
as Oshin (50 to 84 years old)
as Keiko
as Omomo
as Sumie
as Ryoko Kariba
as Sumie Sakai
as Toyo, Mother
as Mino Kawamura
as Mrs. M
as Kyoko (Shigezo's daughter)
as Teru Kamozawa
as Middle-aged Woman
as Sakurada Shizu
as Take Yamada
as Tamiko / Prostitute Yuki
as 九静香
as Hatsuno
as Otoyo
as Oharu
as Hatsu Yonamine
as Fumiko
as Yone
as The Housemaid
as Osasa
as Jiju
as Oetsu
as Woman
as Ikuyo
as Tamiko
as Hatsu Kakinuna
as Gorosuke
as Kimino
as Fumie
as Oyoshi Tamura
as Tomoko
as Tamiko
as Hama
as Toyo
as Shigeko Fukatani
as Keiko
as Hideya
as Ashiya Midori
as Goddess of Anenouzume
as O-Chiyo
as Shizu Kuboyama
as Aunt
as Ofutsu / maid
as The Princess
as Tamasode
as Kumiko Uno
as Kakuko Mori
as Tamaki Minowa
as Akiko
as Sakie / Umeko
as Michie (segment 1)
as Momoyo Imai
as Tsuru
as Fujiko Shirakawa
as Okume
as Shizue Kitami
as Ginko
as Fumiko Ota
as Takako Ishikawa
as Masako Ataka
as Maki Ayukawa
as Takako
as Shizu
as Murasaki no ue
as Taniguchi Yoko