Yōko Tsukasa
Acting
Biography
Yōko Aizawa (相澤 葉子, Aizawa Yōko, born August 20, 1934) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Blue Ribbon Awards for Kinokawa. She is a professor at Tokyo University of Social Welfare and serves as the 2nd head of Nihon Taishōmura theme park. Born as Yōko Shōji (庄司 葉子) in Tottori Prefecture, to a family of cotton merchants who had settled in Yumihama. Her family is a branch of the Shōji family, the landed magnate of Watari. She married politician and attorney Hideyuki Aizawa. Their son Hiromitsu married singer and actress Shoko Aida. She's been awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2003) and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2010).
Born: August 20, 1934
Place of Birth: Sakaiminato, 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…
Epic Chushingura
Daichūshingura is a television dramatization of the events of the Forty-seven Ronin. The first episode aired on January 5, 1971, and the 52nd and final episode appeared on December 28 of the same year. The NET network broadcast it in the Tuesday evening 9:00–9:56 prime-time slot in Japan. The series featured an all-star cast. The central actor was Toshiro Mifune, who portrayed Ōishi Kuranosuke; Yoko Tsukasa his wife; and kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII their son Chikara.
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.
Filmography
as Self - Actress
as Self
as Asako
as Tachibana Kazuko
as Tsutayo
as Katsuno
as Nobuo Nishiyama
as Hatsue Sugimoto
as Minako Soejima
as Oishi Riku
as Lady Kasuga
as Tanba Toyoko
as Toyoko Tamba
as Tsune
as Saijō Eiko (Takashi's wife)
as Shino
as Eiko Saijō (Takashi’s Wife)
as Sumie Kimura
as Natsuyo Honjō
as Natsuyo Honjo (Kenichi's Wife)
as Yumiko
as Sumie Kimura (Shingo’s wife)
as Ichi Sasahara
as Nami
as Sumie Kimura (Nobuyoshi's Wife)
as Umeko (the second daughter)
as Shintani Hana
as Kinuko Kakinuma
as Yoko Kojima
as Kojima Yōko (Keigo’s wife)
as Akiko Okabayashi (Eldest Daughter)
as Kyōko Ishikawa (Takashi's new wife)
as Fusae Ozawa
as Eiichiro’s Wife
as Eiko Suda (CM Girl)
as Aguri Asano
as Ritsuko Yada
as Netsuke Ishikawa
as Noriko
as Keiko Kimura
as Nui
as Michi
as Keiko
as Ayako Miwa
as Sasko Kanamori
as Miyako Fujimura
as Sally
as Princess Oto Tachibana
as Kazuyo Tsuda
as Tazu
as Takako Miyazaki
as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
as Michiko Kōda
as Kyoko
as Kumiko Kazuki
as Miciko
as Kyōko Arisaka (Yone’s daughter)
as Domoto Kozue
as Aiko Hayakawa
as Teacher Shimazaki
as Ms. Shimazaki
as Mizuno Junko
as Chikako Izumi / Sally
as Kioko
as Bride
as Reiko (Company President’s Daughter)
as Tamako Izumi
as Aoyagi Yūko
as Akiko Mori