Fujiko Yamamoto
Known for: Acting
Born: December 11, 1931
Place of birth: Itachibori, Nishi, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
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.
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Filmography
86 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
6.8
Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
1998
6.8
Picnic
1996
6.8
Ghost Soup
1992
7.0
Madame Aki
1963
6.6
An Actor's Revenge
1963
6.9
Being Two Isn't Easy
1962
7.0
The Great Wall
1962
10.0
The Venus' Tear
1962
NR
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962
7.0
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1962
NR
Yume de aritai
1962
NR
The Actress and the Three Rascals
1962
NR
京化粧
1961
10.0
Buddha
1961
8.0
Okoto and Sasuke
1961
NR
Refresher Course for Wives
1961
5.8
Ten Dark Women
1961
9.0
Blind Devotion
1961
7.0
Nocturne of a Woman
1961
8.0
Hunting Rifle
1961
6.5
Satan's Sword II: The Dragon God
1960
6.6
Satan's Sword
1960
7.0
What Price Love?
1960
8.5
The Twilight Story
1960
NR
Yoru wa usotsuki
1960
NR
Patterns of Love
1960
9.0
The Song Lantern
1960
6.5
The Demon of Mount Oe
1960
9.0
Princess Sen in Edo
1960
6.4
A Woman's Testament
1960
9.0
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
1959
6.5
Stop the Old Fox
1959
NR
Pilgrimage at Night
1959
7.5
Beauty the Enemy
1959
7.4
Jirocho Fuji
1959
NR
The Path I Remember
1959
NR
Paper Pigeon
1959
9.0
Jōen
1959
8.5
The Makioka Sisters
1959
NR
Peony on the Skin
1959
5.0
The Snowy Heron
1958
NR
Musume no boken
1958
7.4
Equinox Flower
1958
8.0
The Swishing Sword
1958
7.0
Thirst
1958
NR
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
1958
6.3
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
9.0
The Precipice
1958
NR
Mother
1958
NR
Tokyo Eyes
1958
7.0
Secret of Naruto
1957
10.0
Floating Vessel
1957
6.5
Night Butterflies
1957
8.0
Love of the Princess
1957
NR
Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957
7.0
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Cursed Coin
1957
NR
Flowery Hood 2
1956
7.0
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
7.8
Bridge of Japan
1956
6.2
Undercurrent
1956NR
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956
NR
Flowery Hood
1956
7.7
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1956
NR
Miai Ryokou
1955
8.0
The Romance of Yushima
1955
5.0
The Dancer and Two Warriors
1955
10.0
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
NR
Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi
1955
NR
Haru no uzumaki
1954
NR
Atarashiki ten
1954
NR
Woman of Fire
1954
NR
The Messenger from the Moon
1954
NR
Shirazu no Yatarō
1954
NR
Hana no Inochi wo
1954
9.0
The Golden Demon
1954
NR
Hana no sando gasa
1954
NR
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
NR
Made in Japan
1953
NR
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Kiniro no ōkami
1953
NR
Asakusa monogatari
1953
10.0
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953
NR
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
NR
Hana no kenkajō
1953
7.0
Tange Sazen
1953NR
Seki no yatappe
1953NR
Coming Up of Kodokan
1953
10.0
Tange Sazen
1952