Yōko Tsukasa
Born: 1934-08-20 in Sakaiminato, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Yōko Aizawa (相澤 葉子, Aizawa Yōko, born August 20, 1934) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Blue Ribbon Awards for Kinokawa. She is a professor at Tokyo University of Social Welfare and serves as the 2nd head of Nihon Taishōmura theme park. Born as Yōko Shōji (庄司 葉子) in Tottori Prefecture, to a family of cotton merchants who had settled in Yumihama. Her family is a branch of the Shōji family, the landed magnate of Watari. She married politician and attorney Hideyuki Aizawa. Their son Hiromitsu married singer and actress Shoko Aida. She's been awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2003) and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2010).
Filmography
2016
- Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actress
2003
1985
1983
- I Lived, But... as Self
1981
1980
- Red Soul as Tachibana Kazuko
- Drive for the Future as Asako
1977
- Island of Hell as Katsuno
1974
- Prophecies of Nostradamus as Nobuo Nishiyama
- Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
- Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus as Herself
1971
- Haru no Sakamichi as Lady Kasuga
- Epic Chushingura as Oishi Riku
- The Earth is Born Again as Minako Soejima
- I Hear the Whistle as Hatsue Sugimoto
1970
- Japan's No. 1 Yakuza Man
- Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Toyoko Tamba
- Five Gents and a Kuniang as Tanba Toyoko
1969
- Battle of the Japan Sea
- Goyokin as Shino
- Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Tsune
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Eiko Saijō (Takashi’s Wife)
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Saijō Eiko (Takashi's wife)
1968
- Admiral Yamamoto as Sumie Kimura
- Devils-in-Law
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Natsuyo Honjo (Kenichi's Wife)
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Natsuyo Honjō
1967
- Samurai Rebellion as Ichi Sasahara
- Two in the Shadow as Yumiko
- Kojiro as Nami
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Sumie Kimura (Nobuyoshi's Wife)
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Sumie Kimura (Shingo’s wife)
1966
- Moment of Terror as Kinuko Kakinuma
- The Daphne as Umeko (the second daughter)
- The Kii River as Shintani Hana
- A Company President's Life Story as Kojima Yōko (Keigo’s wife)
- Five Gents on the Spot as Yoko Kojima
- Forever With You
1965
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- Back Stairways
- The Radish and the Carrot
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Kyōko Ishikawa (Takashi's new wife)
- Start Here as Akiko Okabayashi (Eldest Daughter)
1964
- Hail the 3 Gents as Fusae Ozawa
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 1st Sin & 7th Sin
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
1963
- Women Called 'Wives'
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Eiko Suda (CM Girl)
- Dobuike as Katsumi Muroi
- We Are Salarymen as Eiichiro’s Wife
1962
- Chûshingura as Aguri Asano
- The Wiser Age as Netsuke Ishikawa
- Woman of Design as Ritsuko Yada
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
- Anything For Success
- Yoru no keisha
1961
- Yojimbo as Nui
- The End of Summer as Noriko
- A Night in Hong Kong as Keiko Kimura
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- Eternity of Love as Michi
- Challenge to Live
1960
- Late Autumn as Ayako Miwa
- The Angry Sea as Sasko Kanamori
- The Last Gunfight as Sally
- The Masterless 47 as Keiko
- The Lovelorn Geisha as Miyako Fujimura
- The Blue Beast
- The Forbidden Scoop
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
1959
- The Three Treasures as Princess Oto Tachibana
- Saga of the Vagabonds as Tazu
- Samurai Saga as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
- Young Lovers as Kazuyo Tsuda
- 3 Dolls in College as Michiko Kōda
- Flower Shop Curtain as Kyoko
- The College Ruggers as Takako Miyazaki
- The Path Under the Platanes as Kumiko Kazuki
1958
- Summer Clouds as Miciko
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kyōko Arisaka (Yone’s daughter)
- The Capital of Love as Aiko Hayakawa
- Flower's Yearning as Domoto Kozue
- Assistant President
- The Third President
1957
- Schooldays as Mizuno Junko
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- A Dangerous Hero as Yoko Mihara
- The Blue Mountains as Ms. Shimazaki
- Night Holds a Truth
- Price of Beauty as Chikako Izumi / Sally
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Teacher Shimazaki
1956
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Reiko (Company President’s Daughter)
- Gendai no yokubô
- The President's Boss
- All Sold Out
- A Brother and His Sister as Fumiko Mamiya
- The President Talks Bank
- In Case of One Woman as Mitsuko Misono
- Blue Buds as Bride
- Summer in Eclipse as Kioko
- Three Generations of Company Presidents
1955
- Mother and Son as Tamako Izumi
- Frame of Snow as Aoyagi Yūko
- Three Brides for Three Sons
- Marital Relations
- The Immortal Pitcher
- All is Well 2
- To Love and Forgive
- All is Well as Akiko Mori
- The First Kiss as Yoshiko Kanai
- Tactics of Love
- No Response from Car 33
- The History of Love