Yōko Minamida

Acting

Yōko Minamida

Born March 1, 1933 · Tokyo, Japan

Died October 21, 2009 · aged 76

Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo, Minamida made her screen debut in 1953 for the Daiei studio and quickly rose to stardom, working with Kenji Mizoguchi on two films: “A Story from Chikamatsu” and “Princess Yang Kwei-fei.” In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio, where she starred in Takumi Furukawa’s “Season of the Sun”…

Known For

HouseHouse · 1977
House
★ 7.31977
MovieComedyFantasy
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
Haha namiHaha nami · 1953
Haha nami
1953
MovieDrama
Atarashiki tenAtarashiki ten · 1954
Atarashiki ten
1954
MovieDrama
A man and a woman whose love is forbidden due to a feud between their parents resolve to die together and head to the island of Sado.
Chikamatsu MonogatariChikamatsu Monogatari · 1954
Chikamatsu Monogatari
★ 7.81954
MovieDramaRomance
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
Haru no uzumakiHaru no uzumaki · 1954
Haru no uzumaki
1954
Movie
A beautiful dancer who lost her mother and was raised abroad searches for her long-lost father in the homeland she has always longed for.
Teenage SecretsTeenage Secrets · 1954
Teenage Secrets
1954
MovieRomanceDrama
A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.
Inhibited LoveInhibited Love · 1955
Inhibited Love
1955
Movie
Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn grandmother in her hometown in Kyushu, who was trying to force her to marry Komori, the local ringleader.
Princess Yang Kwei-feiPrincess Yang Kwei-fei · 1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
★ 6.71955
MovieRomanceDrama
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets.

Filmography

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GokusenGokusen · 2002
Gokusen
★ 8.02002
SeriesDramaComedy
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

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