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
- Asami Mitsuhiko Mysteries
- Children on the Island as Mistress
1986
- Tree Without Leaves as Mother
- Black Board as Namie Yasui
- Lost in the Wilderness as Yasuko Moto
1985
- Demon as Ume
1984
- 地唄
- The Island Closest to Heaven as Tei Ishikawa
- Location as Katsue
- The Horizon as Hideyo, after age 40
1983
- Oshin as Oshin (50 to 84 years old)
1982
- The Go Masters
- Ekisutora
- Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2 as Narrator
- 傑作推理劇場 不安な階段
- Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3 as Narrator
- Arashi Tatsunari as Keiko
1981
- Edo Porn as Omomo
- Auto Town
- Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1 as Narrator
- Ore to aitsu no monogatari
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
1971
- The Ceremony as Sakurada Shizu
1970
- ありがとう as 九静香
- Mominoki wa Nokotta as Hatsuno
- Live Today, Die Tomorrow! as Take Yamada
- Strange Affinity as Tamiko / Prostitute Yuki
1969
- Red Lion as Oharu
- Heat Wave Island as Otoyo
1968
- Kuroneko as Yone
- Monument to the Girl's Corps as Hatsu Yonamine
- Where Love Springs
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Fumiko
1967
1966
- Lost Sex as The Housemaid
- Rise Against the Sword as Osasa
- Once a Rainy Day
- Tale of a Carpenter
1965
- Taikouki as Oetsu
- Conquest as Jiju
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Nami kage
- Danshun as Ayako Ogata
1964
- Onibaba as Woman
- The Scent of Incense as Ikuyo
- Double Trouble
- Onibaba : Film Location
1963
- Mother as Tamiko
- A Million Girls as Toshi Shiiba
- Madame Aki
- The Maid Story
- Pressure of Guilt
- A Naughty Angel
- When Women Lie
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
- Miren as Hatsu Kakinuna
1962
- Human as Gorosuke
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant as Tome
- This Madding Crowd as Kimino
- Till Tomorrow Is
- Born in Sin
- Dolls floating down the river as Fumie
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Long Way to Okinawa
- Seikurabe
1961
- The Shrikes
- Hunting Rifle as Hama
- The Last War as Oyoshi Tamura
- Love's Family Tree
- Immortal Love as Tomoko
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Netsuai sha as Tamiko
- The Youth and His Amulet
- The Diplomat's Mansion as Yukari
1960
- The Naked Island as Toyo
- When a Woman Loves as Hideya
- The Curio Master
- The Approach of Autumn as Shigeko Fukatani
- The Twilight Story
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope as Keiko
1959
- Room for Let as O-Chiyo
- The Three Treasures as Goddess of Anenouzume
- Lucky Dragon No. 5 as Shizu Kuboyama
- The Bride from Japan as Ashiya Midori
- Flower Shop Curtain
- Our Mother
1958
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as The Princess
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Ofutsu / maid
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- The Shop Curtain
- The Child Writers as Aunt
1957
- Skin-Colored Moon as Kumiko Uno
- Floating Vessel
- Geisha in the Old City as Tamasode
1956
- Shin ono ga tsumi as Tamaki Minowa
- Wandering Shore
- Actress as Kakuko Mori
- Twice on a Certain Night as Akiko
- Love is Lost as Sakie / Umeko
1955
- If Indeed One Loves as Michie (segment 1)
- The Wolves
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- Women of Ginza
1954
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Momoyo Imai
- Ditch as Tsuru
- Turbid Youth
- Koina no Ginpei
- Wakai hito-tachi
- An Inn at Osaka as Uwabami
1953
- Before Dawn as Okume
- Life of a Woman as Fujiko Shirakawa
- Miniature as Ginko
- Murahachibu
- Reminiscence as Fumiko Ota
- Desire as Shizue Kitami
- Bored Hatamoto Passes By
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Takako Ishikawa
- Kantarou zukiyo-uta
- The Ataka Family as Masako Ataka
- Avalanche as Atsuko Fujikawa
- The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as Maki Ayukawa
- Machiko Kyō Dancing and Nobuko Otowa Singing as Self
1951
- Bōya monogatari
- Kyūjō hiroba
- Miss Oyu as Shizu
- Who Will Judge Me?
- Tsuki no wataridori
- The Tale of Genji as Murasaki no ue
- Story of a Beloved Wife as Takako
- Lantern Under a Full Moon
- Izayoi kaidō
1950
- Shojohou as Taniguchi Yoko
- Wedding Ring