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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 11, 1931
Place of Birth
Itachibori, Nishi, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Also Known As
- 山本富士子
- Фудзико Ямамото
Fujiko Yamamoto
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
as Kyouhei's Mother
1998
6.7
Picnic
as Nurse
1996
6.7
Ghost Soup
1992
6.6
Yushu Heiya
as Aki
1963
0.0
An Actor's Revenge
as Ohatsu
1963
6.6
Being Two Isn't Easy
as Chiyo
1962
6.8
The Great Wall
as Princess Chu
1962
6.0
The Venus' Tear
1962
0.0
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962
0.0
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1962
0.0
Yume de aritai
1962
0.0
The Actress and the Three Rascals
1962
0.0
京化粧
1961
0.0
Buddha
as Usha
1961
0.0
Okoto and Sasuke
as Okoto
1961
0.0
🎬
Refresher Course for Wives
1961
0.0
Ten Dark Women
as Futaba Kaze
1961
5.5
Blind Devotion
as Natsuko
1961
0.0
Nocturne of a Woman
1961
0.0
Hunting Rifle
as Saiko Tagi
1961
7.0
Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
as Omatsu
1960
6.6
Satan's Sword
as Omatsu
1960
6.6
What Price Love?
as Komako Shirokoya
1960
0.0
The Twilight Story
1960
8.0
Patterns of Love
1960
0.0
The Song Lantern
1960
0.0
The Demon of Mount Oe
1960
6.2
A Woman's Testament
1960
5.8
Princess Sen in Edo
as Princess Sen
1960
0.0
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
1959
0.0
Stop the Old Fox
as Tomi / Toyoharu
1959
5.0
Pilgrimage at Night
1959
0.0
Beauty the Enemy
as Kikue Yoshino
1959
0.0
Jirocho Fuji
as Oshin
1959
6.8
The Path I Remember
as Saya Ikeda
1959
0.0
Jōen
1959
0.0
The Makioka Sisters
1959
8.0
Peony on the Skin
1959
0.0
The Snowy Heron
1958
4.0
Musume no boken
1958
0.0
Equinox Flower
as Yukiko Sasaki
1958
7.4
The Swishing Sword
1958
0.0
Thirst
1958
0.0
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
1958
0.0
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Yôsen'in
1958
6.0
The Precipice
1958
0.0
Mother
as Yamanaka
1958
0.0
Tokyo Eyes
1958
0.0
Secret of Naruto
1957
6.9
Floating Vessel
as Ukifune
1957
0.0
Night Butterflies
as O-Kiku
1957
6.3
Love of the Princess
as Yuhide
1957
0.0
Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957
0.0
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
1957
0.0
Flowery Hood 2
1956
0.0
Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Umematsu
1956
7.0
Bridge of Japan
as Kiyoha Takinoya
1956
7.3
Undercurrent
as Kiwa Funaki
1956
6.2
🎬
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
0.0
Flowery Hood
1956
0.0
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1956
7.0
Miai Ryokou
1955
0.0
The Romance of Yushima
1955
6.0
The Dancer and Two Warriors
1955
5.0
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
as Michiyo Sawada
1955
0.0
The Messenger from the Moon
as Michiko Nonomiya
1954
0.0
The Golden Demon
as Miya
1954
0.0
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
0.0
Made in Japan
as Yoshiko Sunohara
1953
0.0
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953
0.0
Tange Sazen
1953
0.0
Tange Sazen
1952
0.0