
Fujiko Yamamoto
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.
72 acting credits
Acting · 72

Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
1998

Ten Dark Women
1961

Equinox Flower
1958

Satan's Sword
1960

Picnic
1996

Buddha
1961

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
1960

The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958

Undercurrent
1956

An Actor's Revenge
1963

The Twilight Story
1960

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1962

The Great Wall
1962

The Snowy Heron
1958

Bridge of Japan
1956

Being Two Isn't Easy
1962

Beauty the Enemy
1959

A Woman's Testament
1960

Jōen
1959

Ghost Soup
1992

Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956

Night Butterflies
1957

Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957

The Song Lantern
1960

Stop the Old Fox
1959

Secret of Naruto
1957

The Makioka Sisters
1959
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956

The Swishing Sword
1958

Tokyo Eyes
1958

The Romance of Yushima
1955

Pilgrimage at Night
1959

Princess Sen in Edo
1960

Floating Vessel
1957

Made in Japan
1953

Thirst
1958

Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1956

Musume no boken
1958

Nocturne of a Woman
1961

Jūdai no yūwaku
1953

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
1959

Tange Sazen
1952

The Messenger from the Moon
1954

Flowery Hood 2
1956

Mother
1958

Love of the Princess
1957

Blind Devotion
1961

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955

Peony on the Skin
1959

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
1957

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962

The Dancer and Two Warriors
1955

What Price Love?
1960

The Precipice
1958

The Actress and the Three Rascals
1962

京化粧
1961

Flowery Hood
1956
Refresher Course for Wives
1961

Tange Sazen
1953

Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
1958

Yume de aritai
1962

The Demon of Mount Oe
1960

Jirocho Fuji
1959

Hunting Rifle
1961

Miai Ryokou
1955

The Golden Demon
1954

Zoku Tange Sazen
1953

The Venus' Tear
1962

Madame Aki
1963

Patterns of Love
1960

Okoto and Sasuke
1961

The Path I Remember
1959