Yōko Tsukasa
Birthday: 1934-08-20
Place of Birth: Sakaiminato, Japan
Biography: Yōko Aizawa (相澤 葉子, Aizawa Yōko, born August 20, 1934) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Blue Ribbon Awards for Kinokawa. She is a professor at Tokyo University of Social Welfare and serves as the 2nd head of Nihon Taishōmura theme park. Born as Yōko Shōji (庄司 葉子) in Tottori Prefecture, to a family of cotton merchants who had settled in Yumihama. Her family is a branch of the Shōji family, the landed magnate of Watari. She married politician and attorney Hideyuki Aizawa. Their son Hiromitsu married singer and actress Shoko Aida. She's been awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2003) and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2010).
Movies
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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Fukumimi
29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight with Sa...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...
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The President Talks Bank
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher ...
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Back Stairways
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customer...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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Flower Shop Curtain
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in ...
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
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Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to ...
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The President's Boss
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's d...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for alm...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most promi...
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Queen Bee
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's...
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Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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The Blue Beast
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses any...
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I Hear the Whistle
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease....
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A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Jap...
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I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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Haze of Love
Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a re...
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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Blue Jeans Memory
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the w...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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Challenge to Live
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow...
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Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
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The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain ...
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus
A documentary about the 1974 film Prophecies of Nostradamus, released to coincide with the latter's ...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that th...
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The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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Hail the 3 Gents
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends ...
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, du...
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President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follow...
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A Company President's Life Story
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by secu...
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Five Gents on the Spot
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand in...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
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Five Gents Prefer Geisha
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige)...
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Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
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Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep u...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes maj...
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Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership c...
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Five Gents and a Kuniang
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles....
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Summer in Eclipse
Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with hi...
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We Are Salarymen
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his fam...
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Three Dolls in College
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University,...
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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Flower's Yearning
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while ...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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The Path Under the Platanes
Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play....
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The Blue Mountains
About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar....
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Blue Buds
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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Young Lovers
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her str...
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The Blue Mountains Part 2
At Kaikō Girls’ School, a fake love letter sparks a heated PTA debate. Teacher Shimazaki wins the vo...
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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Frame of Snow
During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in lo...
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Schooldays
Three college friends support swimmer Okubo through family and financial troubles. Junko, a woman he...
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