Toki Shiozawa
Acting
Biography
Toki Shiozawa was a Japanese film and television actress.
Born: April 1, 1928
Place of Birth: Nakazato-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
You Can Succeed, Too
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Mother
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones. In the autumn of 1955, a family of five children is living in the Tohoku area. In order to take care of her paralysed husband, the mother has to sacrifice her five children by giving them away. The children has to suffer all the loneliness and hardships that this decision has brought them. 15 years have passed, all five of them have got married. Now, they come to understand that their mother's love for them was the greatest love of all.
Tokyo Pop
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultural adventures and ends up singing with a Japanese rock group looking for a gaijin gimmick.
A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
Filmography
as Woman with Dog
as Atsuko
as Mama
as Supermarket customer
as Teacher
as Rosetta (voice)
as Medium
as Tokie Uzaki
as Ms. Ono
as Shigeko Kamogawa, President of Kamogawa Textiles
as Waitress
as Hostess
as Tamai
as Tetsuo's Mother
as Mrs. Kōga
as Woman at Napoli
as Maid at Sakura-tei
as Hostess A-ko
as Utako
as Yuriko Yoshioka (Gozo's wife)
as Female Masseur
as Wife (uncredited)
as Secretary
as Katsue
as Hostess
as Hoe Seller Hoye
as Michiko Mizushima
as Kiriko, waitress
as Sumiko Koga
as Mrs. Komaki
as Madam Haruko
as Kayoko Takita
as Takako (Miwa's wife)
as Geisha Ikumatsu
as Mutsuko Yao
as Mutsuko Yaoi
as Junko
as Sadako Tsuzuki
as Osome
as Kanbara Akinari
as Setsuko Saeki (uncredited)