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
- 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
- The Go Masters
- Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2 as Narrator
- Ekisutora
- Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3 as Narrator
- Arashi Tatsunari as Keiko
- 傑作推理劇場 不安な階段
1981
- Edo Porn as Omomo
- Auto Town
- Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1 as Narrator
- Ore to aitsu no monogatari
1979
- The Strangling as Ryoko Kariba
- The Three Undelivered Letters as Sumie
1978
- Seishi Yokomizo Series II Masquerada
- The Incident as Sumie Sakai
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
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Fumiko
- Where Love Springs
1967
1966
- How to Win a Race
- Lost Sex as The Housemaid
- Rise Against the Sword as Osasa
- Tale of a Carpenter
- Once a Rainy Day
1965
- Taikouki as Oetsu
- Finances in Front of the Train Station
- Conquest as Jiju
- Danshun as Ayako Ogata
- Nami kage
- The Radish and the Carrot
1964
- Onibaba as Woman
- The Scent of Incense as Ikuyo
- Comedy: Cheerful Widow
- Onibaba : Film Location
- Double Trouble
1963
- Mother as Tamiko
- Pressure of Guilt
- The Maid Story
- Madame Aki as Daikoku-san
- When Women Lie
- A Million Girls as Toshi Shiiba
- A Naughty Angel
- Miren as Hatsu Kakinuna
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
1962
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant as Tome
- This Madding Crowd as Kimino
- Till Tomorrow Is
- Human as Gorosuke
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Long Way to Okinawa
- Born in Sin
- Dolls floating down the river as Fumie
- Seikurabe
1961
- A Cat and Dried Bonito Flakes: The Story of a Swindler
- The Last War as Oyoshi Tamura
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Immortal Love as Tomoko
- The Youth and His Amulet
- The Shrikes
- The Diplomat's Mansion as Yukari
- Hunting Rifle as Hama
- Love's Family Tree
- Netsuai sha as Tamiko
1960
- The Naked Island as Toyo
- The Five Jolly Thieves
- The Curio Master
- The Approach of Autumn as Shigeko Fukatani
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope as Keiko
- When a Woman Loves as Hideya
- The Twilight Story
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
1959
- The Three Treasures as Goddess of Anenouzume
- The Bell of Love
- Record of Loving Your Wife
- Lucky Dragon No. 5 as Shizu Kuboyama
- Room for Let as O-Chiyo
- Our Mother
- The Bride from Japan as Ashiya Midori
- Flower Shop Curtain
1958
- Stray Cat
- Scops-Owl Sermon
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Ofutsu / maid
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Kiyohime
- The Shop Curtain
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- The Child Writers as Aunt
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1957
- Geisha in the Old City as Tamasode
- Skin-Colored Moon as Kumiko Uno
- Floating Vessel
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
- Women of Ginza
- The Beauty and the Dragon
1954
- Wakai hito-tachi
- Turbid Youth
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Momoyo Imai
- Ditch as Tsuru
- An Inn at Osaka as Uwabami
- Koina no Ginpei
1953
- Life of a Woman as Fujiko Shirakawa
- Reminiscence as Fumiko Ota
- Onna to iu shiro: Mari no maki
- Onna to iu shiro: Yuko no maki
- Before the Dawn as Okume
- Miniature as Ginko
- Desire as Shizue Kitami
- Murahachibu
- Bored Hatamoto Passes By
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Takako Ishikawa
- Avalanche as Atsuko Fujikawa
- Machiko Kyō Dancing and Nobuko Otowa Singing as Self
- The Ataka Family as Masako Ataka
- Kantarou zukiyo-uta
- The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as Maki Ayukawa
1951
- Tsuki no wataridori
- The Tale of Genji as Murasaki no ue
- Bōya monogatari
- Kyūjō hiroba
- Story of a Beloved Wife as Takako
- Who Will Judge Me?
- Miss Oyu as Shizu
- Lantern Under a Full Moon
- Izayoi kaidō
1950
- Wedding Ring
- Shojohou as Taniguchi Yoko