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 and a Kuniang as Tanba Toyoko
- Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Toyoko Tamba
1969
- Goyokin as Shino
- Battle of the Japan Sea
- Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Tsune
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Saijō Eiko (Takashi's wife)
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Eiko Saijō (Takashi’s Wife)
1968
- Admiral Yamamoto as Sumie Kimura
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Natsuyo Honjō
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Natsuyo Honjo (Kenichi's Wife)
- Devils-in-Law
1967
- Samurai Rebellion as Ichi Sasahara
- Two in the Shadow as Yumiko
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Sumie Kimura (Shingo’s wife)
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Sumie Kimura (Nobuyoshi's Wife)
- Kojiro as Nami
1966
- Moment of Terror as Kinuko Kakinuma
- Five Gents on the Spot as Yoko Kojima
- A Company President's Life Story as Kojima Yōko (Keigo’s wife)
- The Kii River as Shintani Hana
- The Daphne as Umeko (the second daughter)
- Forever With You
1965
- The Radish and the Carrot
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Kyōko Ishikawa (Takashi's new wife)
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- Back Stairways
- Start Here as Akiko Okabayashi (Eldest Daughter)
1964
- Hail the 3 Gents as Fusae Ozawa
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 1st Sin & 7th Sin
1963
- We Are Salarymen as Eiichiro’s Wife
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Eiko Suda (CM Girl)
1962
- Chûshingura as Aguri Asano
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- The Wiser Age as Netsuke Ishikawa
- Woman of Design as Ritsuko Yada
- Anything For Success
- Yoru no keisha
1961
- Yojimbo as Nui
- The End of Summer as Noriko
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- Challenge to Live
- Eternity of Love as Michi
- A Night in Hong Kong as Keiko Kimura
1960
- Late Autumn as Ayako Miwa
- The Last Gunfight as Sally
- The Masterless 47 as Keiko
- The Blue Beast
- The Lovelorn Geisha as Miyako Fujimura
- The Angry Sea as Sasko Kanamori
- The Forbidden Scoop
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
1959
- The Three Treasures as Princess Oto Tachibana
- Flower Shop Curtain as Kyoko
- Samurai Saga as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
- Saga of the Vagabonds as Tazu
- 3 Dolls in College as Michiko Kōda
- Young Lovers as Kazuyo Tsuda
- The Path Under the Platanes as Kumiko Kazuki
- The College Ruggers as Takako Miyazaki
1958
- Summer Clouds as Miciko
- Holiday in Tokyo
- The Capital of Love as Aiko Hayakawa
- Assistant President
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kyōko Arisaka (Yone’s daughter)
- The Third President
- Flower's Yearning as Domoto Kozue
1957
- A Dangerous Hero
- Price of Beauty as Chikako Izumi / Sally
- Night Holds a Truth
- Schooldays as Mizuno Junko
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Teacher Shimazaki
- The Blue Mountains as Ms. Shimazaki
1956
- The President Talks Bank
- Three Generations of Company Presidents
- The President's Boss
- Summer in Eclipse as Kioko
- A Brother and His Sister as Fumiko Mamiya
- Gendai no yokubô
- Blue Buds as Bride
- In Case of One Woman as Mitsuko Misono
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Reiko (Company President’s Daughter)
1955
- All is Well as Akiko Mori
- The First Kiss
- No Response from Car 33
- Marital Relations
- All is Well 2
- Tactics of Love
- Mother and Son as Tamako Izumi
- To Love and Forgive
- Frame of Snow as Aoyagi Yūko
- The Immortal Pitcher