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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 1, 1933
Died
October 21, 2009
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- Yoko Kitada
- Yoko Minamida
- Youko Minamida
- Ёко Минамида
- یوکو مینامیدا
Yōko Minamida
1.1 Popularity
Biography
Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo, Minamida made her screen debut in 1953 for the Daiei studio and quickly rose to stardom, working with Kenji Mizoguchi on two films: “A Story from Chikamatsu” and “Princess Yang Kwei-fei.” In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio, where she starred in Takumi Furukawa’s “Season of the Sun” (1956), a smash hit that launched the so-called “Sun Tribe” boom for films about rebellious youth looking for sex and kicks on Shonan Beach — Japan’s nearest equivalent to Malibu. Minamida acted in dozens of movies for Nikkatsu, working with Shohei Imamura, Seijun Suzuki, and other directors. In 1961 she married her co-star on “Season of the Sun,” Hiroyuki Nagato. As she acted in fewer movies after the mid-1960s, Minamida made a smooth and successful transition to TV as both an actress and MC. She also continued to appear occasionally in movies, with the last being Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “Song of Goodbye” in 2006. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband to care for her. She died in Tokyo.
Known For
Credits
Song of Goodbye
as Kyoko Tanabe
2007
5.0
The Motive
as Kinue Ishida
2004
6.4
Gokusen
as Matsubara
2002
7.9
Lost Paradise
as Eto Kuniko
1997
6.0
Salaryman Senka
1995
0.0
🎬
砂山の唄殺人事件
1990
0.0
Yellow Fangs
as Kiyo
1990
6.7
Tears of a Swan
as Atsuko Kawata
1989
0.0
This Story of Love
1987
0.0
Zero
as Ine Hamada
1984
4.2
Yôi don
as 栄市の母・せい
1982
0.0
At Noon
1978
3.3
Take Me Away!
as Tomi Oguchi
1978
7.0
House
as Hausu Karei
1977
7.3
The Wild Daisy
as Fuki - Masao's Mother
1977
0.0
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
7.0
Ame no meguri ai
1977
0.0
Akai Shougeki
1976
6.0
Time of First Love
1975
0.0
Karafuto 1945 Summer
1974
8.5
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as Maid
1972
6.0
Niji
as 三谷かな子
1970
0.0
A Young Man's Stronghold
1970
0.0
Chivalrous Pride
1969
0.0
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
1969
0.0
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967
0.0
Portrait of Chieko
as Kazuko Tsubaki
1967
0.0
The Domain: White Blade
1967
0.0
Glorious Fights
as Akemi
1966
7.0
Showdown of Men
1966
0.0
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
1965
0.0
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965
6.0
Ankoku gai jingi
1965
0.0
The Tattooed Lord
1965
8.0
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
1965
3.2
The Soundless Cry
as Tokie Matsuura
1965
8.0
Prison Gambler
as Kimura Uta
1964
10.0
The Domain
1964
6.4
Gambler
as Kimura Uta
1964
10.0
An Outlaw
1964
4.2
Jakoman and Tetsu
as Masa
1964
6.0
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Misato
1964
0.0
Okashina yatsu
as Fujiko, Shuntô
1963
0.0
The Gambling Monk
1963
0.0
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
1963
10.0
Kiriko's Tango
1963
0.0
Love Comes with Youth
1963
8.0
I Have the Sun in My Back
as Sachiko
1963
0.0
A Modern Samurai Village
as Yasu Tajima
1963
0.0
Beyond the Green Hills
as Umetaro
1963
0.0
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
as Sanae Kitazawa
1962
5.0
Glass-Hearted Johnny
as Yumi
1962
0.0
The Rambler Returns Home
1962
0.0
Last Round
1962
0.0
Sun and Stars
1962
0.0
Black Dice
1962
0.0
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962
0.0
Zurari oretacha yōjinbō
1961
0.0
Wind and waves of the South
as Yasuko, Kazuo's foster mother
1961
0.0
Nosappu no jū
1961
0.0
The Crimson Plains
as Sakie Yazaki
1961
0.0
The Man with a Shotgun
as Harue
1961
6.4
Quick Draw Joe
as Jane, the dancer
1961
0.0
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
as Yuri Harada
1961
0.0
Tokyo Knights
as Koji's Mother
1961
6.8
Pigs and Battleships
as Katsuyo
1961
7.1
He Killed Dad
1961
0.0
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
as Sumi
1960
0.0
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
0.0
Umi no jōji ni kakero
1960
0.0
Lone Wolf
as Naomi
1960
0.0
Jungle Block
as Kayoko Komuro
1960
7.0
Return of the Vagabond
1960
5.0
The Poem of the Blue Star
1960
0.0
The Law's Bloody Wounds
as 榎本吟子
1960
0.0
When a Man Risks His Life
1959
0.0
A Turning to Hell
as Takako
1959
0.0
Elegy to Youth
1959
0.0
Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959
0.0
Yuganda tsuki
as Namiko Eda
1959
0.0
Umi wa kurutte iru
1959
0.0
Wounded Beast
1959
0.0
We Live Today
1959
0.0
Kamen no Onna
1959
0.0
Osaka no kaze
1958
0.0
Voice Without a Shadow
as Asako Kotani
1958
6.4
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958
0.0
Stolen Desire
as Chidori Yamamura
1958
6.6
The Awakening
1957
0.0
Mountain Pass
1957
0.0
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
6.0
The Barefoot Girl
1957
0.0
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Koharu
1957
7.0
The Champion
as Natsuko Miyagawa
1957
6.0
Streetlights
as 早川千鶴子
1957
0.0
Aishū no sono
1957
0.0
Dancing Sisters
1957
0.0
Hungry Soul, Part II
as Reiko Shiba
1956
6.4
Hungry Soul
as Reiko Shiba
1956
6.0
🎬
Tonari no yome
1956
0.0
Our Town
as Otsuru / Kimie
1956
6.8
Season of the Sun
as Eiko Takeda
1956
6.0
🎬
The Happy Dancers
as Michiko Morishita
1956
0.0
🎬
The Motherless
as Tomiko
1955
0.0
The Doctor
1955
0.0
娘の人生案内
as 田部三津子
1955
0.0
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Hung-tao
1955
6.7
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
0.0
Chikamatsu Monogatari
as Otama
1954
7.7
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
0.0
Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten
1953
0.0
Zoku jūdai no seiten
as Akiko Yasutomi
1953
0.0
Jūdai no seiten
1953
0.0