Yasuko Tomita
Acting
Biography
Yasuko Tomita (富田靖子) is a Japanese actress and singer signed under the Amuse, Inc. agency. She won the Award for Best Newcomer at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival and at the 8th Japan Academy Prize for Aiko 16 sai. She also won the award for best actress at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for Bu Su. In 1995, she enjoyed career breakthrough as she won the Best Actress award at 1995 Tokyo International Film Festival for The Christ Of Nanjing.
Born: February 27, 1969
Place of Birth: Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Kindergarten Detective
Shinichiro Hanasaki, a former detective with the police department, is currently engaged in running a nursery called “Smiling Garden.” He wishes to help poorer families and single parents by offering very low fees for childcare, but this leaves the nursery struggling financially. To replenish the budget, Shinichiro decides to open a private detective agency at night.
Sisam
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.
Love Tomato
Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.
We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
Who Cares About an Old Man's Underwear!
50-year-old Okita Makoto is a middle-aged man who is old-fashioned and prejudiced against certain people and behaviors. Because of his values, he is disliked by his son, who likes cute things, his fujoshi daughter, who likes BL, and his wife, who is a fan of male idols. After meeting a gay young man, Makoto begins to slowly change his way of thinking...
Kitchen
Aggie is suffering a great pain after the death of her Grandmother. She has no one else so she moves in with her Godmother and her son, Louie. Aggie does not speak a single word, the pain she is going through is unimaginable, and this portrayal is simply stunning in its sadness and grief. Louie and Wah try to make her feel at home, and soon Aggie's passion for cooking shines through her sadness.
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa.
Fixer
Who will run Japan? The prime minister or a mastermind? A political thriller about the "fixer" pulling strings behind the scenes controlling the political, business, and legal worlds as the greed of money and power intersect.
The Private Detective Mike
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.
Princess Go
Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes of Princess Go, who plays a significant part in establishing the age of peace that lasts over 200 years in Japan.
Filmography
as Kiryu Miyako
as Kojiro's Mother
as Okita Mika [Makoto's wife]
as Umino Chiyoko
as Sayuri Nitta
as Yoshiko Hayami
as Todo Suizan
as Kazue Sendawara
as Kyoko Mukouda
as Shizuka Izumi
as [Tokiko's mother]
as Miyuki Kotō
as Tomoko Izaki
as Kawahara Matsu
as Chiyoko Umino
as Shiraishi Yayoi
as Mitsuyama Sakiko
as Yamano Fusako
as Sakura Moriyama
as Endo Chieko
as Tomie Araki
as Tsukiko Kurokawa
as Shunsuke’s mother
as Kazumi Sakurai
as Kyoko Hayakawa
as Saotome Mugiko
as Omasa
as Yukie Sawamura
as Yoko
as Teacher Taruko
as Sachie Hanawa
as Harumi Omori
as Sawako's Mother
as Yukie Hanawa
as Kobayashi Kyoko
as Hatsu
as Oyo
as Nurse
as Mari Ikeda
as 池田マリ
as Setsuko Katagiri
as Aggie
as Song Jinhua
as Kurita Yuko
as Hatsune Ito
as Kondou
as Satoko
as Sakiko Anayama
as Asuka Kotobuki
as Suzume
as Aoi Kitazawa
as Sabishinbou / Yuriko Tachibana / Lonelyheart
as Aiko Mita