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
- Drive for the Future as Asako
- Red Soul as Tachibana Kazuko
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
- Goyokin as Shino
- Battle of the Japan Sea
- 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
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Natsuyo Honjō
- Devils-in-Law
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Natsuyo Honjo (Kenichi's Wife)
1967
- Samurai Rebellion as Ichi Sasahara
- Kojiro as Nami
- Two in the Shadow as Yumiko
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Sumie Kimura (Nobuyoshi's Wife)
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Sumie Kimura (Shingo’s wife)
1966
- A Company President's Life Story as Kojima Yōko (Keigo’s wife)
- Moment of Terror as Kinuko Kakinuma
- The Daphne as Umeko (the second daughter)
- The Kii River as Shintani Hana
- Five Gents on the Spot as Yoko Kojima
- Forever With You
1965
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Back Stairways
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Kyōko Ishikawa (Takashi's new wife)
- Start Here as Akiko Okabayashi (Eldest Daughter)
1964
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 1st Sin & 7th Sin
- Hail the 3 Gents as Fusae Ozawa
1963
- We Are Salarymen as Eiichiro’s Wife
- Dobuike as Katsumi Muroi
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Eiko Suda (CM Girl)
1962
- Chûshingura as Aguri Asano
- Woman of Design as Ritsuko Yada
- The Wiser Age as Netsuke Ishikawa
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Anything For Success
- Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
- Yoru no keisha
1961
- Yojimbo as Nui
- The End of Summer as Noriko
- Eternity of Love as Michi
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- A Night in Hong Kong as Keiko Kimura
- Challenge to Live
1960
- Late Autumn as Ayako Miwa
- The Last Gunfight as Sally
- The Angry Sea as Sasko Kanamori
- The Lovelorn Geisha as Miyako Fujimura
- The Masterless 47 as Keiko
- The Blue Beast
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
- The Forbidden Scoop
1959
- The Three Treasures as Princess Oto Tachibana
- Saga of the Vagabonds as Tazu
- Samurai Saga as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
- The Path Under the Platanes as Kumiko Kazuki
- 3 Dolls in College as Michiko Kōda
- Flower Shop Curtain as Kyoko
- The College Ruggers as Takako Miyazaki
- Young Lovers as Kazuyo Tsuda
1958
- Summer Clouds as Miciko
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Assistant President
- The Capital of Love as Aiko Hayakawa
- The Third President
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kyōko Arisaka (Yone’s daughter)
- Flower's Yearning as Domoto Kozue
1957
- Price of Beauty as Chikako Izumi / Sally
- Night Holds a Truth
- Schooldays as Mizuno Junko
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- A Dangerous Hero
- The Blue Mountains as Ms. Shimazaki
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Teacher Shimazaki
1956
- The President Talks Bank
- A Brother and His Sister as Fumiko Mamiya
- In Case of One Woman as Mitsuko Misono
- The President's Boss
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Reiko (Company President’s Daughter)
- All Sold Out
- Gendai no yokubô
- Blue Buds as Bride
- Three Generations of Company Presidents
- Summer in Eclipse as Kioko
1955
- All is Well as Akiko Mori
- Marital Relations
- Mother and Son as Tamako Izumi
- Frame of Snow as Aoyagi Yūko
- Tactics of Love
- To Love and Forgive
- No Response from Car 33
- The First Kiss as Yoshiko Kanai
- All is Well 2
- The Immortal Pitcher