Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 05, 1917
Died
Jul 09, 2012
Place of Birth
Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Credits
167 titles
Isuzu Yamada
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
Known For
Filmography
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'
Self
Kurosawa
Self
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
Oriku
Sure Death
Suspicion
Tokie Horiuchi
Arashi Tatsunari
Tatsu
Shin Hissatsu Shigotonin
Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Yotsuya
Hissatsu Shigotonin
Otowa
Ameyuki-san
Waka Yamada
Shogun's Samurai
Oeyo
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Self
Woman Boss
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Joban
Akō Rōshi
Riku
Sakiko-san chotto
中川しの
The Body
The Great Wall
Dowager Empress
假名手本忠臣蔵
365 Nights
Glory on the Summit
Taka Hirooka
Four Sisters
Tatsuko Katagiri
Buddha
Kalideva
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
The Orphan Brother
Yashio (voice)
Yojimbo
Orin
The Shrikes
誰よりも金を愛す
Daredevil in the Castle
Yodogami
風来物語 あばれ飛車
Deep River Melody
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
The Lovelorn Geisha
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Otoku
Bonchi
Sei
Secret
Goodbye to Glory
Otake
Mission Accomplished
Princess Sen in Edo
Kisaragi
Pineapple Butai
Shigeyo (Mother)
Disappearance in the Night
風来物語任侠篇
Love in the Mountains
Man of Edo
Hear My Mother's Cry
The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love
The Hidden Treasure
The Days of Evil Women
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
The Undefeated Woman