Fujiko Yamamoto
Acting
Fujiko Yamamoto (山本富士子, Yamamoto Fujiko) (born 11 December 1931) is a Japanese stage, film and television actress. She was the winner of the first Miss Nippon Grand Prix in 1950, and appeared in over 100 films between 1953 and 1963, including works by directors Yasujirō Ozu, Kon Ichikawa, Shirō Toyoda and Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Yamamoto was born on 11 December 1931 in Nishi ward, Osaka. In 1953, she made her film debut at Daiei Film, and became one of the studio's top actresses. Yamamoto was considered one of Japan's most beautiful women, with, in the words of film historian Catherine Russell, "noble" features that represented the classic ideal of Japanese beauty. As such, she was well-suited for costumed parts in the era's popular period dramas, with her less-frequent modern roles (in films like Ozu's Equinox Flower and Ichikawa's Being Two Isn't Easy) often shot in "movie star" closeups that placed her apart from the films' contemporary storytelling. In 1963, when her contract came up for renewal, she insisted on changes. The head of Daiei, Masaichi Nagata, refused, dismissed her, and prevented her from finding work at other film studios via the Five-Company Agreement. After the Daiei dismissal, Yamamoto acted in the TV series Toshiba Sunday Theatre and on Fuji TV. Even though she has appeared frequently on stage and on television, she has not appeared in a film since then.
Picnic
Nurse
Ghost Soup
Madame Aki
Aki
An Actor's Revenge
Ohatsu
Being Two Isn't Easy
Chiyo
The Great Wall
Princess Chu
The Venus' Tear
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Yume de aritai
The Actress and the Three Rascals
京化粧
Buddha
Usha
Okoto and Sasuke
Okoto
Refresher Course for Wives
Ten Dark Women
Futaba Kaze
Blind Devotion
Natsuko
Nocturne of a Woman
Hunting Rifle
Saiko Tagi
Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
Omatsu
Satan's Sword
Omatsu
What Price Love?
Komako Shirokoya
The Twilight Story
Patterns of Love
The Song Lantern
The Demon of Mount Oe
A Woman's Testament
Princess Sen in Edo
Princess Sen
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Stop the Old Fox
Tomi / Toyoharu
Pilgrimage at Night
Beauty the Enemy
Kikue Yoshino
Jirocho Fuji
Oshin
The Path I Remember
Saya Ikeda
Jōen
The Makioka Sisters
Peony on the Skin
The Snowy Heron
Musume no boken
Equinox Flower
Yukiko Sasaki
The Swishing Sword
Thirst
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Yôsen'in
The Precipice
Mother
Yamanaka
Tokyo Eyes
Secret of Naruto
Floating Vessel
Ukifune
Night Butterflies
O-Kiku
Love of the Princess
Yuhide
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
Flowery Hood 2
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Umematsu
Bridge of Japan
Kiyoha Takinoya
Undercurrent
Kiwa Funaki
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
Flowery Hood
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Miai Ryokou
The Romance of Yushima
The Dancer and Two Warriors
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Michiyo Sawada
The Messenger from the Moon
Michiko Nonomiya
The Golden Demon
Miya
Jūdai no yūwaku
Made in Japan
Yoshiko Sunohara
Zoku Tange Sazen
Tange Sazen
Tange Sazen