🎬 Movies Mates PEOPLE
Fujiko Yamamoto
Acting
Biography
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 …
Read full biography
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.
Biography expanded
BODY OF WORK
Fujiko Yamamoto's Filmography
Select any movie to open its full Movies Mates details page.
Picnic
as Nurse
Ghost Soup
Madame Aki
as Aki
An Actor's Revenge
as Ohatsu
Being Two Isn't Easy
as Chiyo
The Great Wall
as 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
as Usha
Okoto and Sasuke
as Okoto
Refresher Course for Wives
Ten Women in Black
as Futaba Kaze
Blind Devotion
as Natsuko
Nocturne of a Woman
Hunting Rifle
as Saiko Tagi
Satan's Sword II: The Dragon God
as Omatsu
Satan's Sword
as Omatsu
What Price Love?
as Komako Shirokoya
The Twilight Story
Yoru wa usotsuki
Patterns of Love
The Song Lantern
The Demon of Mount Oe
A Woman's Testament
Princess Sen in Edo
as Princess Sen
A Week in Hawaii
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Stop the Old Fox
as Tomi / Toyoharu
Pilgrimage at Night
as Naoko
Beauty the Enemy
as Kikue Yoshino
Jirocho Fuji
as Oshin
The Path I Remember
as Saya Ikeda
Paper Pigeon
as Masako Komaki
Jōen
The Makioka Sisters
Peony on the Skin
The Snowy Heron
Musume no boken
Tokai toiu minato
Equinox Flower
as Yukiko Sasaki
The Swishing Sword
Thirst
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
Tenryū shibukigasa
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Yôsen'in
The Precipice
Mother
as Yamanaka
Symphony of Love
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: hachi-nin no hanayome
Tokyo Eyes
Yuki no wataridori
Secret of Naruto
Duel at Noon
Night Butterflies
as O-Kiku
Floating Vessel
as Ukifune
Love of the Princess
as Yuhide
Zoku ginga no miyako
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Ginga no miyako
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Cursed Coin
I Love You
Flowery Hood 2
Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Umematsu
Bridge of Japan
as Kiyoha Takinoya
Undercurrent
as Kiwa Funaki
No Poster
Studio wa ōsawagi
No Poster
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
Flowery Hood
Spark
The Buried Treasure
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Bara no kōdōkan
Miai Ryokou
The Romance of Yushima
The Dancer and Two Warriors
Tsubakuro kasa
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
as Michiyo Sawada
The Birth of Judo
Driving Like Mad
Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi
Itarō jishi
Haru no uzumaki
Atarashiki ten
Woman of Fire
The Messenger from the Moon
as Michiko Nonomiya
Shirazu no Yatarō
Hana no Inochi wo
The Golden Demon
as Miya
Hana no sando gasa
Jūdai no yūwaku
Made in Japan
as Yoshiko Sunohara
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Kiniro no ōkami
Asakusa monogatari
Zoku Tange Sazen
Shunsetsu no mon
Hana no kenkajō
Tange Sazen
No Poster
Seki no yatappe
No Poster
Coming Up of Kodokan
