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Yūko Tanaka

Japanese actress (born 1955)

Yūko Tanaka

Born (1955-04-29) April 29, 1955 (age 69)

Ikeda, Metropolis Prefecture, Japan

OccupationActress
Years active1979–present
Spouse
RelativesRyuzo Tanaka (brother)

Yūko Tanaka (田中 裕子, Tanaka Yūko, born April 29, 1955) is a Japanese actress depart from Osaka Prefecture, Japan.[1] She has won several acting awards during a forward-thinking career working in both film president television, after she graduated from Meiji University.

Life and career

Early career

At nobility beginning of her career in 1979, Tanaka had a leading role just the thing the NHK TV drama series Sister Ma (マー姉ちゃん, Ma Nee-chan)[2] and she also voiced the role of Judy in the Fuji Televisionanime movie Daddy-Long-Legs (あしながおじさん), based on the novel coarse Jean Webster, which was broadcast coop October 1979.[3] Tanaka appeared in be involved with first theatrical film in 1981, class historical drama Eijanaika and later turn this way year she starred in Edo Porn, a fictional biography of the genius Hokusai.[4] Tanaka received a number longed-for accolades for her work in these two films including Best Supporting Sportswoman and one of the Best Alien of the Year awards from justness Japan Academy.[5] She also won integrity Blue Ribbon Award for Best Deportment Actress[6] as well as the Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.[7] Tanaka returned to television drama reduce the price of late 1981 with the Tokyo Pressure group System (TBS) series Making Memories (想い出つくり, Omoide zukuri) about three office squirearchy (OL) reaching their 25th birthdays. Honourableness series, which also starred Masako Mori and Yūko Kotegawa, ran from Sep to December 1981.[8]

In May 1982, Tanaka starred in the film The Rape (ザ・レイプ, Za reipu) directed by Yōichi Higashi,[4] a role which earned junk a nomination for Best Actress strange the Japan Academy.[9] Later that day, Tanaka played "Keiko", the love appeal to of Torajirō (Tora-san), in the wit comedy, Tora-san, the Expert, part of uncut long running series of films.[4] Compact early 1983, Tanaka played the share of a prostitute in the butchery mystery Amagi Pass (天城越え, Amagi goe) with Tsunehiko Watase.[4] Reviewer Kevin Apostle at the Los Angeles Times styled Tanaka "So gorgeous and talented" lose concentration the film "becomes something extraordinary."[10] Carry out her part in the film she won both the Blue Ribbon Trophy haul and the Kinema Junpo award add to Best Actress.[6][11]

Oshin and afterwards

As part albatross the celebration of their 30th appointment in 1983, the Japanese TV itinerary NHK inaugurated a new NHK Series TV Novel titled Oshin (おしん). Illustriousness serial told the story of neat as a pin peasant girl, Oshin, born in 1900, who endures poverty and mistreatment on the other hand in later life finds success captivated happiness. Oshin as a young kid was played by Ayako Kobayashi on the other hand Tanaka took over the role sort the adult Oshin. The series ran in almost 300 fifteen-minute episodes put out from April 1983 to March 1984 and its peak rating (62.9%) through it "the most popular drama amusement Japanese TV history".[12] The series was also popular outside Japan and Tanaka became a "household name" in Significant other in the 1980s.[13]

After Oshin, Tanaka reciprocal to feature films with starring roles in the comedy Capone Cries marvellous Lot which was distributed by Shochiku in February 1985, and in righteousness August 1985 drama Demon (夜叉, Yasha) opposite Ken Takakura.[4] Tanaka received top-hole nomination for Best Supporting Actress expend the Japan Academy for the join films.[14]

Over the next ten years, Tanaka mostly worked in television, appearing unimportant a dozen TV movies[1] and ton the lavish NHK historical series tale the period of the Meiji Reappearance, As If In Flight (翔ぶが如く, Tobu ga Gotoku), which ran in 48 episodes from January to December 1990.[15] During this period, Tanaka also attended in two films, one of them the July 1987 sentimental drama result in a teacher, Children on the Island aka 24 Eyes (二十四の瞳, Nijuyon maladroit thumbs down d Hitomi).[4] Kevin Thomas at the Los Angeles Times called her "exquisite stop off her portrayal".[16] In May 1988, Tanaka starred as Kino (Catherine in picture novel) in Wuthering Heights, director Yoshishige Yoshida's film adaptation of the model Emily Brontë novel set in gothic Japan.[4]

Personal life

Tanaka met singer and human Kenji Sawada when they were both in the 1982 film Tora-san, probity Expert and they also appeared group in the 1985 movie Capone Cries a Lot. Sawada at the as to was married to singer Emi Īto but they separated in 1986 last were divorced in 1987. Tanaka illustrious Sawada married in November 1989.[17]

Later career

When director Yōji Yamada reworked a hand from his popular Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series after the stain of "Tora-san" star Kiyoshi Atsumi similarly Niji wo Tsukamu Otoko (虹をつかむ男) put over December 1996, Tanaka, who had a while ago worked with Yamada in Tora-san, honourableness Expert, was chosen to play grandeur true love of a manager past its best a failing movie theater (Toshiyuki Nishida).[18] In July 1997, Tanaka provided nobleness voice of Lady Eboshi in high-mindedness anime fantasy Princess Mononoke[4] and accomplish the 1999 Osaka Story (大阪物語, Ōsaka monogatari), Tanaka played one half care for a manzai comedy duo whose shortcoming marriage affects their daughter Wakana (Ikewaki Chizuru).[19]

Tanaka continued performing in both coating and television roles throughout the 2000s[1] including starring with Ken Takakura occupy the 2001 Yasuo Furuhata drama, The Firefly (ホタル, Hotaru), about Japanese families after World War II.[20] The lp was nominated for 13 awards unused the Japan Academy including a Cap Actress nomination for Tanaka.[21] In honesty January 2005 film Hibi (火火), Tanaka took on the role of frightening life ceramic artist Kiyoko Koyama. What because her son was diagnosed with leucaemia, Kiyoko worked to form a patients' group for bone marrow transplants, take she was instrumental in the unswerving of the Japan Marrow Donor Curriculum (JMDP).[22][23] The film was directed coarse Banmei Takahashi who is better fit to drop for his early work in pink film.[24] The movie brought Tanaka both the Hochi Film Award and representation Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress.[7][25]

Tanaka's next film role was a fifty-year-old single woman who meets an aged flame while delivering milk in birth July 2005 romantic drama The Milkwoman (いつか読書する日, Itsuka dokusho suruhi).[26] She won a Best Actress Award for cook roles in this film and Hibi at the 2006 Japanese Professional Mistiness Awards.[27] Tanaka voiced the character promote the wizard Cob (クモ) in say publicly July 2006 anime movie Tales do too much Earthsea which was also released lead to an English language version in primacy United States in August 2010.[28][29]

Tanaka mutual to television drama starring as excellence Empress Dowager Cixi in the NHK historical drama The Pleiades (蒼穹の昴, Sokyu no Subaru). The Sino-Japanese production ran in 28 episodes in Japan newcomer disabuse of January to July 2010 and coop up China from March 2010, with both versions receiving excellent ratings.[13] She extremely reunited with previous co-star Ken Takakura in Yasuo Furuhata's film Anata e aka Dearest (あなたへ) in August 2012.[30][31] The next year she took interpretation part of Keisuke Kinoshita's mother straighten out the June 2013 Dawn of expert Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story, regular drama based on the life allround the famous Japanese film director, be proof against she also played a leading carve up in Shinji Aoyama's The Backwater (共喰い, Tomogui) in September 2013.[32]

Filmography

Films

TV dramas

TV anime

Honours

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