Nobuko Otowa
Born: 1925-10-01 in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1994-12-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nobuko Otowa (1 October 1925 – 22 December 1994) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō. She posthumously won the award for best supporting actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for A Last Note, having been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer during its production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuko Otowa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2000
- By Player as Okaji
1995
- A Last Note as Toyoko Yanagawa
1992
- The Strange Tale of Oyuki as Masa
- Free and Easy 5 as Densuke's mother
1991
- 朝比奈周平ミステリー as 朝比奈容子
1990
1989
- Dream Street as Tomi Izeki
1988
1987
- Children on the Island as Mistress
- Asami Mitsuhiko Mysteries
1986
- Black Board as Namie Yasui
- Tree Without Leaves as Mother
- Lost in the Wilderness as Yasuko Moto
1985
- Demon as Ume
1984
- The Island Closest to Heaven as Tei Ishikawa
- The Horizon as Hideyo, after age 40
- Location as Katsue
- 地唄
1983
- Oshin as Oshin (50 to 84 years old)
1982
1981
1979
- The Three Undelivered Letters as Sumie
- The Strangling as Ryoko Kariba
1978
- The Incident as Sumie Sakai
- Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
1977
- The Life of Chikuzan as Toyo, Mother
1974
- My Way as Mino Kawamura
1973
- The Twilight Years as Kyoko (Shigezo's daughter)
- The Heart as Mrs. M
1972
- The Iron Crown as Middle-aged Woman
- Hymn as Teru Kamozawa
1971
- The Ceremony as Sakurada Shizu
1970
- ありがとう as 九静香
- Live Today, Die Tomorrow! as Take Yamada
- Strange Affinity as Tamiko / Prostitute Yuki
- Mominoki wa Nokotta as Hatsuno
1969
- Heat Wave Island as Otoyo
- Red Lion as Oharu
1968
- Kuroneko as Yone
- Monument to the Girl's Corps as Hatsu Yonamine
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Fumiko
1966
- Rise Against the Sword as Osasa
- Lost Sex as The Housemaid
- Once a Rainy Day
1965
- Nami kage
- Taikouki as Oetsu
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Conquest as Jiju
1964
- Onibaba as Woman
- The Scent of Incense as Ikuyo
1963
- Yushu Heiya
- Pressure of Guilt
- When Women Lie
- Mother as Tamiko
- The Maid Story
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
- Miren as Hatsu Kakinuna
1962
1961
- Immortal Love as Tomoko
- The Last War as Oyoshi Tamura
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Hunting Rifle as Hama
- The Youth and His Amulet
- Netsuai sha as Tamiko
- The Shrikes
- Love's Family Tree
1960
- The Naked Island as Toyo
- When a Woman Loves as Hideya
- The Approach of Autumn as Shigeko Fukatani
- The Twilight Story
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope as Keiko
1959
- The Three Treasures as Goddess of Anenouzume
- Lucky Dragon No. 5 as Shizu Kuboyama
- Flower Shop Curtain
- The Bride from Japan as Ashiya Midori
- Room for Let as O-Chiyo
1958
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as The Princess
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Ofutsu / maid
- The Child Writers as Aunt
- The Shop Curtain
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1957
- Geisha in the Old City as Tamasode
- Skin-Colored Moon as Kumiko Uno
- Floating Vessel
1956
- Actress as Kakuko Mori
- Twice on a Certain Night as Akiko
- Love is Lost as Sakie / Umeko
- Shin ono ga tsumi as Tamaki Minowa
- Ryûri no kishi
1955
- Ai Sureba Koso as Michie (segment 1)
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- The Wolves
- Women of Ginza
1954
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Momoyo Imai
- An Inn at Osaka
- Ditch as Tsuru
- Turbid Youth
- Wakai hito-tachi
- Koina no Ginpei
1953
- Miniature as Ginko
- Yokubo as Shizue Kitami
- Before Dawn as Okume
- Reminiscence as Fumiko Ota
- Onna no issho as Fujiko Shirakawa
- Murahachibu
- Bored Hatamoto Passes By
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Takako Ishikawa
- The Ataka Family as Masako Ataka
- The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as Maki Ayukawa
- 勘太郎月夜唄
1951
- Miss Oyu as Shizu
- Story of a Beloved Wife as Takako
- Who Will Judge Me?
- The Tale of Genji as Murasaki no ue
- Izayoi kaidō
- Lantern Under a Full Moon
1950
- Wedding Ring
- Shojohou as Taniguchi Yoko