Yōko Yamamoto
Acting
Biography
Yōko Yamamoto (山本陽子) is a Japanese actress.
Born: March 17, 1942
Place of Birth: Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
The Family
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Cobra
Japanese crime film.
Matsumoto Seicho's Black Leather Notebook
Upon finding out about the existence of a huge slush fund, veteran teller Haraguchi Motoko carefully plans for six months and finally succeeds in embezzling 75 million yen, which she uses to open a club in Ginza.
Dendera
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
SMAP×SMAP
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games. These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking. Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.
White Shadow
Noriko Shimura is on duty for the first time at Gyoda Hospital. The duty doctor is Yosuke Naoe. After 9PM Jiro Toda, a childhood friend of Noriko's, is brought in with a cut to his forehead from a fight. But Naoe has gone out for a drink, and can't be found. Both Toda and the ambulance crew become angry and demand to know where the doctor is. Naoe returns and seeing the commotion, he orders Toda be locked in a toilet until he calms down. Noriko is horrified by Naoe's attitude but is later impressed with his ability as a surgeon when treating Toda' s injury. This is their first fateful meeting...
The Holy Monsters
The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a prestigious university hospital to a financially troubled hospital, but there he meets a capable and cool-headed chief nurse named Kasugai Yuka (Nakatani), who teaches him the reality of the medical world. The pure Kengo must face various obstacles and challenges as he tears off the “masks” of respected professionals – doctors, nurses, and educators – and uncovers their true natures.
Massacre Gun
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Night Butterflies
A 1971 crime film
Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Filmography
as Grandmother Kikue
as Miyata Makiko
as Yaobikuni
as Hikari Asami
as Bistro Guest
as Goto Chise
as 母・能田妙子
as Ameko Takigawa / Mizue Takigawa
as Yayoi Hōgen
as Tomoe Osakabe
as Haraguchi Motoko
as Haruyo Tajimi
as Miyoko
as Miyoko
as Sanae Manpyo
as Mihoyo
as Hanai Shizue
as Koyuki
as Yukie Okai
as Yoko Yamamoto
as Aiko
as Itoko Koyanagi
as Oyuki
as Yoko katagiri
as Koshi
as Yamanaka
as Machiko Asanuma
as Eriko Hamamura
as Little Lady Akashi
as Mitsuko Tsurukawa
as Emi / Miyo
as Reiko Matsumiya
as Keiko Obana