Cast

Isuzu Yamada

Acting

Cast

Isuzu Yamada

Known for

Acting

Born

1917-02-05

From

Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Died

2012-07-09

Also known as Исудзу Ямада, ایسوزو یامادا

Biography

Isuzu Yamada (山田五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades. Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Yamada debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in the Nikkatsu film Tsurugi wo koete. She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses, but it was her portrayals of strong-willed modern girls in Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion in 1936 at the new Daiichi Eiga studio that earned her popularity and critical acclaim. Moving to Shinkō Kinema and then to Toho, she became a star with Mikio Naruse's Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938). During the second half of the 1950s, Yamada's main attention shifted towards the stage, but she still appeared in a number of distinguished films like Naruse's Flowing (1956), Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Twilight (1957) and Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths (1957) and Throne of Blood (1957). Other directors she worked with during this decade include Keisuke Kinoshita, Kaneto Shindō and Shirō Toyoda. In addition to her theatre engagements, she appeared on television, including the long-running Hissatsu series. Her last TV appearance was in 2002. Yamada died from multiple organ failure in Tokyo on 9 July 2012 at the age of 95. She was married four times, to actor Ichirō Tsukita, to producer Kazuo Takimura, to actor Yoshi Katō, and to actor Tsutomu Shimomoto. Her daughter with Tsukita, Michiko, became known as the actress Michiko Saga (1935–1992). Description above from the Wikipedia article Isuzu Yamada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Isuzu Yamada

Isuzu Yamada

Biography

Burden of Love

Yojimbo

The Motherland Far Far Away

The Shrikes

Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage

Schoolgirl Records

Banquet Under the Midnight Sun

Ameyuki-san

A Man from Akagi

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Four Marriages

Throne of Blood

The Days of Evil Women

Home Sweet Home

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

The Orphan Brother

The Comb of Oroku

The Sculpture of Master Choji

The New Tange Sazen: The Chapter of the Two-Armed Swordsman

Kurosawa

The Revenge Champion

Modern People

Koga Manshion

Tokyo Twilight

Five Patriots of Kyoto

Man of Edo

Five Men of Edo

Hear My Mother's Cry

Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen

Oyuki the Virgin

Hiroshima

Ishigassen

The Great Wall

Black River

Actress

Daredevil in the Castle

Samurai Nippon

Shogun's Samurai

The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love

Koi rōka

The Lower Depths

The Song Lantern

Fireworks Over the Sea

Sisters of the Gion

A Billionaire

Glory on the Summit

How Sorrowful

假名手本忠臣蔵

Osaka Elegy

Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!

Disappearance in the Night

The Body

Bonchi

The Snake Princess

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

The Lovelorn Geisha

Lord for a Night

The Man Who Waited

誰よりも金を愛す

Farewell to Dream

Four Sisters

Growing Up

Sakiko-san chotto

Tsukigata Hanpeita

The Way of Drama

The Big Ambition

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

Suspicion

Flowing

Deep River Melody

Buddha

Professional Killer

The Seasons of Love

Satsuma-bikyaku

Shanghai Moon

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

風来物語あばれ飛車

木曽路の決闘夏祭り三度笠