Isuzu Yamada

Known for ActingBorn 1917-02-05Died 2012-07-09Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Isuzu Yamada (山田五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades. Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Yamada debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in the Nikkatsu film Tsurugi wo koete. She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses, but it was her portrayals of strong-willed modern girls in Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion in 1936 at the new Daiichi Eiga studio that earned her popularity and critical acclaim. Moving to Shinkō Kinema and then to Toho, she became a star with Mikio Naruse's Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938). During the second half of the 1950s, Yamada's main attention shifted towards the stage, but she still appeared in a number of distinguished films like Naruse's Flowing (1956), Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Twilight (1957) and Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths (1957) and Throne of Blood (1957). Other directors she worked with during this decade include Keisuke Kinoshita, Kaneto Shindō and Shirō Toyoda. In addition to her theatre engagements, she appeared on television, including the long-running Hissatsu series. Her last TV appearance was in 2002. Yamada died from multiple organ failure in Tokyo on 9 July 2012 at the age of 95. She was married four times, to actor Ichirō Tsukita, to producer Kazuo Takimura, to actor Yoshi Katō, and to actor Tsutomu Shimomoto. Her daughter with Tsukita, Michiko, became known as the actress Michiko Saga (1935–1992). Description above from the Wikipedia article Isuzu Yamada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

Hissatsu Shigotonin

Buddha

Pineapple Butai

Such is Life

If Indeed One Loves

Karatachi no hana

江戸いろは祭

Schoolgirl Records

The Day Before

Happy Daughter

In Search of Mother

Glory on the Summit

誰よりも金を愛す

Princess Sen in Edo

Christ in Bronze

Musashibo Benkei

Woman Boss

Yojimbo

The Shop Curtain

A Matter of Valour

Down Town

The Shadow Daughter

The Mandarin Room

Devil’s Statue

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

Throne of Blood

Lord for a Night

Until Victory Day

Four Marriages

Onna keizu

The Man Who Waited

Shanghai Moon

The Snake Princess

Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki

Ichiyo Higuchi

Bangaku no issho

Miniature

Bonchi

Tokyo Twilight

Akō Rōshi

Three Loves

Kurosawa

Hiroshima

The Body

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Daredevil in the Castle

The Downfall of Osen

Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!