Yuko Tanaka
Birthday: 1955-04-29
Place of Birth: Ikeda, Osaka, Japan
Biography: Yuko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television after she graduated from Meiji University.
Movies
Princess Mononoke
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must jou...
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The Buried Forest
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mo...
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Tales from Earthsea
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act ...
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The Exam
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grad...
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The Bleep Brothers
Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they pr...
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Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w...
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Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the ...
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Haru's Journey
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a t...
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Dearest
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. ...
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Demon
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned ...
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Wuthering Heights
Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his fath...
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected le...
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Children on the Island
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops b...
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Homeland
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a sma...
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Hana's Miso Soup
Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes on...
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Thousand and One Nights
Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to r...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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Osaka Story
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years...
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Midnight Diner
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series o...
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Backwater
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing...
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The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi...
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Daddy Long Legs
An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she ...
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The Firefly
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decad...
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Eijanaika
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
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Monster
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering...
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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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The Real You
Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s tru...
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Ghost Story: Flower House
An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the stran...
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Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a y...
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Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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Capone Cries a Lot
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achievin...
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Hibi
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She ...
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The Island of Cats
Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with h...
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Haruko's Doll
In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a...
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The Rape
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistic...
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One Night
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what ha...
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Gift of Fire
Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that ...
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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They rais...
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The Homeless Student
Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of ho...
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Through Their Eyes
A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the...
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Wild Geese
In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house nea...
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