Michiyo Yasuda
Date of birth: 1946-02-27
Place of birth: Tianjin, China
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Michiyo Ohkusu, Michiyo Ôkusu, Michiyo Ookusu, 安田道代, Michiyo Yasuda
Biography
Michiyo Okusu (大楠 道代, Ōkusu Michiyo, born February 27, 1946) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie Credits
Women's Prison
1968-01-27
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortu
Kanto Onna Gokudo
1969-02-22
Japanese crime film
Kanto Woman Infamy
1969-05-01
Kanto Woman Fortitude
1969-10-04
Face
2000-08-12
Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that
Zigeunerweisen
1980-04-01
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through
Lefty Fencer
1969-06-14
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was afte
Autumn Blossoms
1999-10-30
Seiko Matsuda's Sweet Memories
1987-09-30
Shinran: Path to Purity
1987-06-02
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school
The Fallen Angel
2010-02-19
The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since th
Kagero-za
1981-08-21
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
The Goofball
1998-06-27
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1966-08-12
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into
BU・SU
1987-10-29
Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to liv
I'm Flash!
2012-08-31
Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention fr
Someday
2011-07-16
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li
The Two in Tracksuits
2008-07-18
A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains.
Zatoichi
2003-09-06
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam
Yumeji
1991-05-31
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter
Spring Snow
2005-10-09
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973-08-11
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee
Akame 48 Waterfalls
2003-10-25
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange character
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
1971-07-24
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
Hanging Garden
2005-10-08
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are
Love for an Idiot
1967-07-29
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she ensla
Kanto Woman Yakuza
1968-08-24
Secrets of a Woman's Temple
1969-01-25
A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare
The Sex Check
1968-06-01
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWI
The Little Runaway
1966-12-24
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upo
The Projects
2016-06-04
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, ther
Fate Deals the Card of Death
1971-02-13
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and
Slaughter in the Snow
1973-06-08
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of M
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
1966-12-10
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken
Location
1984-09-22
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adapt
The Freezing Point
1966-03-26
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kid
Woman Gambler Is Coming
1968-07-31
Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s
Assignment Dragon No. 3
1967-01-03
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidak
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
1968-12-21
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring wher
Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
1967-12-08
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where
The Daring Nun
1968-10-05
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she oft
Solar Eclipse
1975-09-06
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972-04-22
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after th
Born Fighter
1970-02-21
Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.
The Virgin Witness
1966-01-29
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitia
Bedtime Eyes
1987-04-25
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between
Mission: Iron Castle
1970-02-07
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time,
Naked Ambition
1970-04-04
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poison
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
1968-01-13
The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
1971-02-17
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
1966-11-09
Dianas of the Campus
1966-06-22
I Never Shot Anyone
2020-07-03
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces,
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
1969-07-26
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
1969-12-27
Secret Report From A House Of Women
1968-07-13
Japanese crime film
Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison
1968-11-16
Japanese crime film
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964-07-12
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave
The Detective Journey
1980-10-04
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become
出獄四十八時間
1969-02-08
殺人者
1966-10-01
Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
1974-05-15
Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as pol
Tekken
1990-11-23
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a box