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{{nihongo|'''Isuzu Yamada'''|山田五十鈴|Yamada Isuzu}} (born 5 February 1917) is a [[Japan]]ese actress on stage and screen |
{{nihongo|'''Isuzu Yamada'''|山田五十鈴|Yamada Isuzu}} (born 5 February 1917) is a [[Japan]]ese actress whose career on stage and screen has spanned eight decades. |
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Isuzu Yamada 山田五十鈴 | |
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 Isuzu Yamada in 1937 | |
| Born | Mitsu Yamada 5 February 1917 |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1930–2002 |
Isuzu Yamada (山田五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu) (born 5 February 1917) is a Japanese actress whose career on stage and screen has spanned eight decades.
Career
Yamada was born in Osaka with the name Mitsu Yamada.[1] Her father, Kusuo Yamada, was a shinpa stage actor specializing in onnagata roles and her mother, Ritsu, was a geisha.[1][2] Her family was poor, but under her mother's influence, she began learning nagauta and Japanese traditional dance from the age of six.[3] She debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in a Nikkatsu film, Ken o koete, opposite Denjirō Ōkōchi.[2] She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses,[4] but it was her strong portrayals of two rebellious 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.[2] Moving to Shinkō Kinema and then to Toho, she starred in a series of films with Kazuo Hasegawa, such as Mikio Naruse's Tsuruhachi Tsurujirō (1938) and Masahiro Makino's Kinō kieta otoko (1941), that made her a major star.[1]
Yamada appeared in the films of many of the great Japanese directors, including Yasujirō Ozu, Shirō Toyoda and Teinosuke Kinugasa, but she is probably best known to foreign audiences for major roles in films such as The Lower Depths (1957), Throne of Blood (1957, in the Lady Macbeth role) and Yojimbo (1961), all of which were directed by Akira Kurosawa.
From the mid-1950s, she appeared more and more on stage and on television.[2]
Family
Yamada was married four times, first to the actor Ichirō Tsukita, second to the producer Kazuo Takimura, third to the actor Yoshi Katō, and fourth to the actor Tsutomu Shimomoto.[4] Her daughter with Tsukita, Michiko, became famous as the actress Michiko Saga.[1]
Awards
Yamada has earned numerous accolades during her long career. She earned double honors, a Blue Ribbon Award and a Mainichi Film Award for best actress, two times: in 1952 for Gendai-jin and Hakone fūunroku,[5][6] and in 1956 for Boshizō, Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna, and Nagareru.[7][8] She also won a Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actress in 1955 for Takekurabe and Ishigassen.[9] She received a Special Award from the Chairman of the Japan Academy in 1995 in honor of her lifetime achievements in cinema.[10] For her work on stage, she has been awarded the Grand Prize (Taishō) three times from the Agency for Cultural Affairs's Arts Festival (Geijutsusai) for the plays Tanuki (1974), Aizome Takao (1977), and Daiyu-san (1983).[11]
She was named a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government in 1993[4] and became the first actress to receive the illustrious Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 2000.[12][13][3] The Order of Culture is considered Japan's "top cultural award."[14]
Selected filmography
- Ken o koete (剣を超えて) (1930)
- The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate (愛憎峠 Aizo toge) (1934)
- The Downfall of Osen (折鶴お千, Orizuru Osen) (1935)
- Osaka Elegy (浪華悲歌, Naniwa erejii) (1936)
- Sisters of the Gion (祇園の姉妹, Gion no kyōdai) (1936)
- Tsuruhachi Tsurujirō (鶴八鶴次郎) (1938)
- Kinō kieta otoko (昨日消えた男) (1941)
- Gendai-jin (現代人) (1952)
- Hakone fūunroku (箱根風雲録) (1952)
- Epitome (1953)
- Tōjin Okichi (唐人お吉) (1954)
- Takekurabe (たけくらべ Takekurabe), English titles include: Adolescence aka Growing Up Twice aka Growing Up aka Child's Play (1955)
- Christ in Bronze (青銅の基督, Seidō no Kirisuto) (1955)
- Nagareru (Flowing) (流れる) (1956)
- Boshizō (母子像) (1956)
- Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna (猫と庄三と二人のをんな) (1956)
- Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城, Kumonosu-jō) (1957)
- Black River (黒い河, Kuroi kawa) (1957)
- Tokyo Twilight (東京暮色, Tōkyō boshoku) (1957)
- The Lower Depths (どん底, Donzoko) (1957)
- Yojimbo (用心棒, Yōjinbō) (1961)
References
- ^ a b c d "Yamada Isuzu". Nihon jinmei daijiten + Plus (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Yamada Isuzu-san in Bunka Kunshō juyo". Theater Guide Online (in Japanese). 27 October 2000. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ a b Iwamoto, Nao (2003). "Saigo no daijoyū Yamada Isuzu". Noa's Room (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ a b c "Yamada Isuzu keizu". Kingendai keizu wārudo (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Burū Ribon shō hisutorī 1952". Cinema Hōchi (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Mainichi Konkūru ni tsuite 1952". Mainichi Film Awards (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Burū Ribon shō hisutorī 1956". Cinema Hōchi (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Mainichi Konkūru ni tsuite 1956". Mainichi Film Awards (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Burū Ribon shō hisutorī 1955". Cinema Hōchi (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Dai 18-kai Nihon Akademī Shō yūshū sakuhin" (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Bunkachō Geijutsusaishō jushō ichiran" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Nobel chemist to get Order of Culture", Japan Times Online, October 25, 2000.
- ^ Matsui, Makoto (9 February 2010). ""Haha" Yamada Isuzu to no fukai kizuna". Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "2 Nobel laureates among 7 recipients of year's top culture award". Japan Today. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
External links
- Isuzu Yamada at IMDb
- Yamada Isuzu at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)