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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.
Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
Kyouhei's Mother · (1 episode)
6.7
1998
Picnic
Nurse
6.6
1996
Ghost Soup
7.0
1992
An Actor's Revenge
Ohatsu
6.5
1963
Being Two Isn't Easy
Chiyo
6.8
1962
The Great Wall
Princess Chu
6.0
1962
The Venus' Tear
0.0
1962
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
0.0
1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
0.0
1962
Yume de aritai
0.0
1962
The Actress and the Three Rascals
0.0
1962
Buddha
Usha
0.0
1961
Okoto and Sasuke
Okoto
0.0
1961
Refresher Course for Wives
0.0
1961
Ten Dark Women
Futaba Kaze
5.9
1961
Blind Devotion
Natsuko
0.0
1961
Nocturne of a Woman
0.0
1961
Hunting Rifle
Saiko Tagi
7.0
1961
Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
Omatsu
6.6
1960
Satan's Sword
Omatsu
6.4
1960
What Price Love?
Komako Shirokoya
0.0
1960
The Twilight Story
8.0
1960
Patterns of Love
0.0
1960
The Song Lantern
0.0
1960
The Demon of Mount Oe
5.8
1960
Princess Sen in Edo
Princess Sen
0.0
1960
A Woman's Testament
5.8
1960
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
0.0
1959
Stop the Old Fox
Tomi / Toyoharu
5.0
1959
Pilgrimage at Night
0.0
1959
Beauty the Enemy
Kikue Yoshino
0.0
1959
Jirocho Fuji
Oshin
6.8
1959
The Path I Remember
Saya Ikeda
0.0
1959
The Makioka Sisters
8.0
1959
Peony on the Skin
0.0
1959
The Snowy Heron
4.0
1958
Musume no boken
0.0
1958
Equinox Flower
Yukiko Sasaki
7.4
1958
The Swishing Sword
0.0
1958
Thirst
0.0
1958
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
0.0
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Yôsen'in
6.0
1958
The Precipice
0.0
1958
Mother
Yamanaka
0.0
1958
Tokyo Eyes
0.0
1958
Secret of Naruto
6.9
1957
Floating Vessel
Ukifune
0.0
1957
Night Butterflies
O-Kiku
6.3
1957
Love of the Princess
Yuhide
0.0
1957
Daiei Studio is Bustling
0.0
1957
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
0.0
1957
Flowery Hood 2
0.0
1956
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Umematsu
7.0
1956
Bridge of Japan
Kiyoha Takinoya
7.3
1956
Night River
Kiwa Funaki
6.2
1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
0.0
1956
Flowery Hood
0.0
1956
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
7.0
1956
Miai Ryokou
0.0
1955
The Romance of Yushima
6.0
1955
The Dancer and Two Warriors
5.0
1955
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Michiyo Sawada
0.0
1955
The Messenger from the Moon
Michiko Nonomiya
0.0
1954
The Golden Demon
Miya
0.0
1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
0.0
1953
Made in Japan
Yoshiko Sunohara
0.0
1953
続・丹下左膳
0.0
1953
Tange Sazen
0.0
1952