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Fujiko Yamamoto

Born · December 11, 1931 (93 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Itachibori, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Bio

Fujiko Yamamoto (山本富士子, Yamamoto Fujiko) (born 11 December 1931) is a Japanese stage, film and television actress. She was the winner of the first Miss Nippon Grand Prix in 1950, and appeared in over 100 films between 1953 and 1963, including works by directors Yasujirō Ozu, Kon Ichikawa, Shirō Toyoda and Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Yamamoto was born on 11 December 1931 in Nishi ward, Osaka. In 1953, she made her film debut at Daiei Film, and became one of the studio's top actresses. Yamamoto was considered one of Japan's most beautiful women, with, in the words of film historian Catherine Russell, "noble" features that represented the classic ideal of Japanese beauty. As such, she was well-suited for costumed parts in the era's popular period dramas, with her less-frequent modern roles (in films like Ozu's Equinox Flower and Ichikawa's Being Two Isn't Easy) often shot in "movie star" closeups that placed her apart from the films' contemporary storytelling. In 1963, when her contract came up for renewal, she insisted on changes. The head of Daiei, Masaichi Nagata, refused, dismissed her, and prevented her from finding work at other film studios via the Five-Company Agreement. After the Daiei dismissal, Yamamoto acted in the TV series Toshiba Sunday Theatre and on Fuji TV. Even though she has appeared frequently on stage and on television, she has not appeared in a film since then.

Known for

Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower

Picnic

Picnic

An Actor's Revenge

An Actor's Revenge

Secret of Naruto

Secret of Naruto

Seijuu Sentai Gingaman

Kyouhei's Mother · (1 episode)

1998

Picnic

Nurse

1996

Ghost Soup

1992

An Actor's Revenge

Ohatsu

1963

Being Two Isn't Easy

Chiyo

1962

The Great Wall

Princess Chu

1962

The Venus' Tear

1962

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

1962

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

1962

Yume de aritai

1962

The Actress and the Three Rascals

1962

京化粧

1961

Buddha

Usha

1961

Okoto and Sasuke

Okoto

1961

Refresher Course for Wives

1961

Ten Dark Women

Futaba Kaze

1961

Blind Devotion

Natsuko

1961

Nocturne of a Woman

1961

Hunting Rifle

Saiko Tagi

1961

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

Omatsu

1960

Satan's Sword

Omatsu

1960

What Price Love?

Komako Shirokoya

1960

The Twilight Story

1960

Patterns of Love

1960

The Song Lantern

1960

The Demon of Mount Oe

1960

Princess Sen in Edo

Princess Sen

1960

A Woman's Testament

1960

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

1959

Stop the Old Fox

Tomi / Toyoharu

1959

Pilgrimage at Night

1959

Beauty the Enemy

Kikue Yoshino

1959

Jirocho Fuji

Oshin

1959

The Path I Remember

Saya Ikeda

1959

Jōen

1959

The Makioka Sisters

1959

Peony on the Skin

1959

The Snowy Heron

1958

Musume no boken

1958

Equinox Flower

Yukiko Sasaki

1958

The Swishing Sword

1958

Thirst

1958

Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin

Yôsen'in

1958

The Precipice

1958

Mother

Yamanaka

1958

Tokyo Eyes

1958

Secret of Naruto

1957

Floating Vessel

Ukifune

1957

Night Butterflies

O-Kiku

1957

Love of the Princess

Yuhide

1957

Daiei Studio is Bustling

1957

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi

1957

Flowery Hood 2

1956

Tsukigata Hanpeita

Umematsu

1956

Bridge of Japan

Kiyoha Takinoya

1956

Night River

Kiwa Funaki

1956

Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin

1956

Flowery Hood

1956

Three Women Around Yoshinaka

1956

Miai Ryokou

1955

The Romance of Yushima

1955

The Dancer and Two Warriors

1955

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

Michiyo Sawada

1955

The Messenger from the Moon

Michiko Nonomiya

1954

The Golden Demon

Miya

1954

Jūdai no yūwaku

1953

Made in Japan

Yoshiko Sunohara

1953

Zoku Tange Sazen

1953

Tange Sazen

1953

Tange Sazen

1952