Isuzu Yamada
Acting
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…
Filmography
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Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
1985
Sure Death
1984
Suspicion
1982
Arashi Tatsunari
1982
Shin Hissatsu Shigotonin
1981
Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Yotsuya
1979
Hissatsu Shigotonin
1979
Ameyuki-san
1979
Shogun's Samurai
1978
Woman Boss
1970
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
1966
Akō Rōshi
1964
Sakiko-san chotto
1963
The Body
1962
The Great Wall
1962
365 Nights
1962
假名手本忠臣蔵
1962
Glory on the Summit
1962
Four Sisters
1962
Buddha
1961
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
1961
The Orphan Brother
1961
Yojimbo
1961
The Shrikes
1961
誰よりも金を愛す
誰よりも金を愛す
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
1961
風来物語 あばれ飛車
1960
Deep River Melody
1960
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
1960
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
1960
Bonchi
1960
Secret
1960
Goodbye to Glory
1960
Mission Accomplished
1960
Princess Sen in Edo
1960
Pineapple Butai
1959
Disappearance in the Night
1959
風来物語任侠篇
1959
Love in the Mountains
1959
Man of Edo
1959
Hear My Mother's Cry
1959
The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love
1959
The Hidden Treasure
1959
The Days of Evil Women
1958
The Undefeated Woman
1958
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
1958
The Shop Curtain
1958
The Seasons of Love
1958
A Boy and Three Mothers
1958
Samurai Nippon
1957
Down Town
1957
Black River
1957
The Lower Depths
1957
A Matter of Valour
1957
The Shadow Daughter
1957
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Horse Boy
1957
Throne of Blood
1957
The Mandarin Room
1956
Flowing
1956
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956
Five Patriots of Kyoto
1956
How Sorrowful
How Sorrowful
1956
Mother and Child
1956
Farewell to Dream
1956
Namida no hanamichi
1956
大当り男一代
1956
Ishigassen
1955
Such is Life
Such is Life
1955
Christ in Bronze
1955
荒木又右衛門
1955
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1955
振袖釼法
1955
If Indeed One Loves
1955
Growing Up
1955
The Big Ambition
1955
Chutaro of Banba
1955
Burden of Love
1955
