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
- Lost in the Wilderness as Yasuko Moto
- Black Board as Namie Yasui
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
- Edo Porn as Omomo
- Auto Town
- 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
- Mominoki wa Nokotta as Hatsuno
- ありがとう as 九静香
- 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
1966
- Once a Rainy Day
- Rise Against the Sword as Osasa
- Lost Sex as The Housemaid
- Tale of a Carpenter
1965
- Taikouki as Oetsu
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Nami kage
- Conquest as Jiju
1964
- Onibaba as Woman
- The Scent of Incense as Ikuyo
- Onibaba : Film Location
- Double Trouble
1963
- Pressure of Guilt
- When Women Lie
- The Maid Story
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
- Mother as Tamiko
- Miren as Hatsu Kakinuna
- Madame Aki
- A Million Girls as Toshi Shiiba
- A Naughty Angel
1962
- Born in Sin
- This Madding Crowd as Kimino
- Till Tomorrow Is
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant as Tome
- Long Way to Okinawa
- Dolls floating down the river as Fumie
- Human as Gorosuke
- Seikurabe
1961
- The Last War as Oyoshi Tamura
- Immortal Love as Tomoko
- Netsuai sha as Tamiko
- The Youth and His Amulet
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Love's Family Tree
- The Shrikes
- Hunting Rifle as Hama
- The Diplomat's Mansion as Yukari
1960
- The Naked Island as Toyo
- The Twilight Story
- The Approach of Autumn as Shigeko Fukatani
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope as Keiko
- When a Woman Loves as Hideya
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
1959
- The Three Treasures as Goddess of Anenouzume
- Flower Shop Curtain
- Lucky Dragon No. 5 as Shizu Kuboyama
- The Bride from Japan as Ashiya Midori
- Room for Let as O-Chiyo
1958
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Ofutsu / maid
- The Child Writers as Aunt
- The Shop Curtain
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as The Princess
1957
- Geisha in the Old City as Tamasode
- Floating Vessel
- Skin-Colored Moon as Kumiko Uno
1956
- Actress as Kakuko Mori
- Twice on a Certain Night as Akiko
- Love is Lost as Sakie / Umeko
- Ryûri no kishi
- Shin ono ga tsumi as Tamaki Minowa
1955
- The Wolves
- If Indeed One Loves as Michie (segment 1)
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- Women of Ginza
1954
- Turbid Youth
- An Inn at Osaka as Uwabami
- Ditch as Tsuru
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Momoyo Imai
- Wakai hito-tachi
- Koina no Ginpei
1953
- Murahachibu
- Miniature as Ginko
- Yokubo as Shizue Kitami
- Bored Hatamoto Passes By
- Reminiscence as Fumiko Ota
- Before Dawn as Okume
- Onna no issho as Fujiko Shirakawa
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Takako Ishikawa
- The Ataka Family as Masako Ataka
- 勘太郎月夜唄
- The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as Maki Ayukawa
1951
- The Tale of Genji as Murasaki no ue
- Miss Oyu as Shizu
- Story of a Beloved Wife as Takako
- Izayoi kaidō
- Lantern Under a Full Moon
- Who Will Judge Me?
1950
- Wedding Ring
- Shojohou as Taniguchi Yoko