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Isuzu Yamada
Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Isuzu Yamada (山田 五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades. Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Y…
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Isuzu Yamada (山田 五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades. Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Yamada debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in the Nikkatsu film Tsurugi wo koete. She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses, but it was her portrayals of strong-willed modern girls in Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion in 1936 at the new Daiichi Eiga studio that earned her popularity and critical acclaim. Moving to Shinkō Kinema and then to Toho, she became a star with Mikio Naruse's Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938). During the second half of the 1950s, Yamada's main attention shifted towards the stage, but she still appeared in a number of distinguished films like Naruse's Flowing (1956), Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Twilight (1957) and Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths (1957) and Throne of Blood (1957). Other directors she worked with during this decade include Keisuke Kinoshita, Kaneto Shindō and Shirō Toyoda. In addition to her theatre engagements, she appeared on television, including the long-running Hissatsu series. Her last TV appearance was in 2002. Yamada died from multiple organ failure in Tokyo on 9 July 2012 at the age of 95. She was married four times, to actor Ichirō Tsukita, to producer Kazuo Takimura, to actor Yoshi Katō, and to actor Tsutomu Shimomoto. Her daughter with Tsukita, Michiko, became known as the actress Michiko Saga (1935–1992). Description above from the Wikipedia article Isuzu Yamada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies and shows, newest first
- 2002
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2000
Kurosawa
Movie Self
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1985
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
Movie Oriku
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1984
Sure Death
Movie
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1982
Suspicion
Movie Tokie Horiuchi
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1982
Arashi Tatsunari
Movie Tatsu
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1981
Shin Hissatsu Shigotonin
TV show
- 1979
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1979
Hissatsu Shigotonin
TV show Otowa
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1979
Ameyuki-san
Movie Waka Yamada
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1978
Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
Movie Oeyo
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1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie Self
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1970
Woman Boss
Movie
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1966
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
TV show Joban
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1964
Akō Rōshi
TV show Riku
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1963
Sakiko-san chotto
Movie 中川しの
More credits
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1962
The Body
Movie
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1962
The Great Wall
Movie Dowager Empress
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1962
假名手本忠臣蔵
Movie
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1962
365 Nights
Movie
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1962
Glory on the Summit
Movie Taka Hirooka
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1962
Four Sisters
Movie Tatsuko Katagiri
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1961
Buddha
Movie Kalideva
- 1961
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1961
The Orphan Brother
Movie Yashio (voice)
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1961
Yojimbo
Movie Orin
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1961
The Shrikes
Movie
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1961
誰よりも金を愛す
Movie
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1961
Daredevil in the Castle
Movie Yodogami
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1960
風来物語 あばれ飛車
Movie
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1960
Deep River Melody
Movie
- 1960
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1960
The Lovelorn Geisha
Movie
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1960
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Movie Otoku
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1960
Bonchi
Movie Sei
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1960
Secret
Movie
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1960
Goodbye to Glory
Movie Otake
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1960
Mission Accomplished
Movie
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1960
Princess Sen in Edo
Movie Kisaragi
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1959
Pineapple Butai
Movie Shigeyo (Mother)
