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