Misako Watanabe
Born: 1932-10-23 in Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Misako Watanabe (渡辺美佐子) (b. 23 October 1932) is a Japanese actress. She is a graduate of the Haiyuza Theatre Company. In 1997 she received a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon and in 2004 the Order of the Rising Sun.
Filmography
2024
- Route29 as Old Lady at the Watch Shop
2020
2019
- Mango no Ki no Shita de as Aya Kusakabe (1989)
- Sketches of Life as Kazuko Tanaka
2018
2016
- Midnight Diner 2 as Yukiko Ogawa
- Princess Maison as Akane Todo
- Battleship Musashi
2014
- Karaage USA as Some Karashima
2013
- The Great Passage as Take
2012
- Bread of Happiness as Aya Sakamoto
2011
- Ohisama as Fujiko Kirino
2009
- Okaimono
- Bare Essence of Life as Shibata
2008
2006
2005
- The Milkwoman as Toshiko Minagawa
- Water Boys 2005 Summer as Haru Kakihara
- Haru and Natsu as Nobu Takakura
2003
- Farewell, Kuro as Principal Makino
2002
2000
- Face as Mrs. Yoshimura
1995
- The Abe Clan as Kinu
1994
- Haru yo koi as 長坂アイ
- In Blazing Love as Narrator (voice)
1993
- Summer of the Moonlight Sonata as Kimiko Yoshioka
1990
- Tsugumi as Tugumi's Mother
1985
- Ichiban Daiko as 養母・勢子
1982
- Tattoo as Sadako Takeda
1981
- This Is Noriko as Harue Matsubara
- Rennyo and His Mother
1977
- Lullaby to Kill as Harue Bessho - Chi'e's Mother
1975
1971
- The Gentle Japanese as Woman of the story
1970
- Child Bride as Yukiko Takayama
1967
- The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka as Kuriko
- The Shogun and His Mistresses as Narrator
- Dissolution Rites as Mie
1965
- Kwaidan as Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
- Samurai Spy as Okiwa
- With Beauty and Sorrow as Fumiko Ôki
- Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
- Tokyo Untouchable as as Mie Kaneko
1963
- Youth of the Beast as Kumiko Takeshita
- The Gambling Monk
- Foggy Night Blues
- The Hill is Full of Flowers as Asako Shiraishi
- A Fishmonger's Tour
- Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Yasu, Sajiemon's wife
- Sasuke and His Comedians
1962
- Children of Izu as Nanae Igami
- The Inheritance as Kawara's wife Rie
- Being Two Isn't Easy as Setsuko
- At the Side of the Bridge 2
- The Injured Boy
- At the Side of the Bridge
- Human as Kamegoro's wife
- Ningen Gari as Shima Kajimoto
- Kimagure tosei
- Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
- Me o tsubutte tsuppashire
- 零戦黒雲一家
- Facing to the Clouds
1961
- Dai shusse monogatari
- Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab as Tomiko Haraguchi
- Yabure Kabure
- That Guy and I
1960
- Take Aim at the Police Van as Yûko Hamajima
- The Lost Diamond
- The War Without Weapons
- Wait for Tomorrow as Shinobu Yamaki
- Sixteen years old
- The Guitarist and the Rancher
1959
- The Ghost of Iwojima
- The Rambling Guitarist as Rie
- Beneath the Gallows
- Kikenna onna as Yoshiko Shiota
- Unripe Fruit
- Wolves on Number Zero Street
- Wakai hyou no mure
- The Third Dead Angle
- Break Down that Wall as Sakiko, the Tanigawas' daughter-in-law
- Kamen no Onna
- The Age of Our Own as Yoriko
1958
- A Slope in the Sun as Yuriko Kawakami
- Young Breasts
- The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
- Forever, My Love as Tokie
- Endless Desire as Shima
- The Seasons of Love as Yuriko
- City with Beasts
1957
1956
- Hungry Soul as Noriko Izumitani
- Hungry Soul, Part II as Noriko Izumitani
- Gyakukōsen as Motoko Sayama
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Flesh Smuggling