Misako Watanabe
Birthday: 1932-10-23
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Misako Watanabe (渡辺美佐子) (b. 23 October 1932) is a Japanese actress. She is a graduate of the Haiyuza Theatre Company. In 1997 she received a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon and in 2004 the Order of the Rising Sun.
Movies
Bread of Happiness
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and esta...
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City with Beasts
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm....
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Flesh Smuggling
A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sai...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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THE LAST GOZE
A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the sham...
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Bare Essence of Life
Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his ...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga...
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Farewell, Kuro
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high s...
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Homecoming
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her...
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Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio...
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Sixteen years old
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton c...
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Samurai Spy
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob...
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Sennen-Tabito
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl ...
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Take Aim at the Police Van
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....
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Human
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people...
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Face
Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that ...
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Facing to the Clouds
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he...
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Lullaby to Kill
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police det...
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The Great Passage
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that...
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Tattoo
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, pla...
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Being Two Isn't Easy
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of vi...
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With Beauty and Sorrow
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel ...
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Streetlights
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropp...
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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last tim...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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Endless Desire
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
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Tsugumi
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoi...
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Okaimono
In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice a...
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A Mummy’s Love
In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of ...
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Wakai hyou no mure
A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the se...
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Rennyo and His Mother
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular t...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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The Age of Our Own
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named ...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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The War Without Weapons
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa...
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The Ghost of Iwojima
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper rep...
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This Is Noriko
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which...
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Midnight Diner 2
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and...
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The Third Ninja
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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A Slope in the Sun
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family ...
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The Barefoot Girl
A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman ...
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Route29
Adapted from a book of poems by poet Taichi Nakao, the film is a road story set in beautiful nature ...
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Yabure Kabure
Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to cr...
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Young Breasts
A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing s...
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Dissolution Rites
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order ...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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The Rambling Guitarist
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local ...
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two b...
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Kikenna onna
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper....
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Karaage USA
Ayane is the daughter of a karaage (fried food) store owner, but she never liked karaage. Eventually...
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The Third Dead Angle
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst...
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The Seasons of Love
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thank...
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A Fishmonger's Tour
The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping ...
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Long Journey into Love
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving her...
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The Abe Clan
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of...
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But the Flesh is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period....
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The Lost Diamond
Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter atte...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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The Antique
Job-hunting Daisuke heads to the Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia in Kita-Kamakura with a book signed by ...
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Hungry Soul
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a b...
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Ningen Gari
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs ...
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Saigo no sentō-ki
The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end...
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to aven...
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Tower of Lilies
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the isla...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a m...
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The Gambling Monk
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing abou...
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Frost
Shun is a young man, who sells his paintings on a city corner. Kasumi is a children's story writer, ...
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In Blazing Love
An illustration of the tragic lives of geishas at a popular geisha house, Shinonomero. Shortly after...
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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The Gentle Japanese
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute mo...
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Gyakukōsen
Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with a...
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Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art g...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-...
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Sketches of Life
Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hom...
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The love song of farewell later
A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting locat...
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Unripe Fruit
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the co...
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Corpse of your Choice
A confessional article in a weekly magazine and the strange suspense between an ordinary housewife w...
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at ...
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Kamen no Onna
A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in ago...
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Beneath the Gallows
Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, an...
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The Milkwoman
Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk d...
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