Tamae Kiyokawa
Acting
Biography
Tamae Kiyokawa (清川玉枝, Kiyokawa Tamae, May 24, 1903 – January 21, 1969) was a Japanese actress born in Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. She is known for her roles in films such as "Haha no omokage" (1959), "Love Letter" (1953), and "Kengô tai gôketsu: Homare no kessen" (1956). She died on January 21, 1969 in Japan.
Born: May 24, 1903
Place of Birth: Shiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Image of a Mother
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and new beginnings.
Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a local noble must not object, and his missing younger brother is the only one who could sway him. Meanwhile, Omitsu, a hotel employee tired of Echigo-ya’s wife’s arrogance, teams up with Kitahara to stage a scheme where a vagrant young man pretends to be the noble’s lost brother, aiming to trick and embarrass the wealthy woman.
The Boy Who Came Back
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Five Sisters
The story of five sisters.
Seisaku's Wife
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Hideko the Bus Conductress
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.
Ditch
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
The Song Lantern
A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.
The Blue Sky Maiden
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
Filmography
as Teruko
as Tora
as Tami
as Masako
as Omaki
as Boarding house landlady
as Kume Oda
as Amatsu Hisako
as Otami
as Mineko Furukawa
as Mitsu, Hangoro’s Wife
as Ofuku
as Oyoshi
as Tami - Mineya's wife
as Shino (Rumiko's mother)
as 女房お兼
as Mitsue Hayakawa
as Female boss
as Tamae
as Oyasu
as Saku Kineya
as Aiko's mother
as Makiko's Aunt
as Innkeeper
as Hideko's grandmother
as Omasa
as Obun
as Madame at café