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Sayuri Yoshinaga is a Actor Japonaise born on 13 march 1945 at Tokyo (Japon)

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sayuri Yoshinaga
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Nationality Japon
Birth 13 march 1945 (79 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合, Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film."

Biography

Sayuri Yoshinaga fait ses études à l'université Waseda.

Elle a tourné dans plus de 120 films depuis 1959.

Usually with

Kon Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa
(3 films)
Yōji Yamada
Yōji Yamada
(4 films)
Kirio Urayama
Kirio Urayama
(3 films)
Jun Hamamura
Jun Hamamura
(4 films)
Chieko Baishō
Chieko Baishō
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sayuri Yoshinaga (16 films)

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Actress

About Her Brother
About Her Brother (2010)
, 2h6
Directed by Yōji Yamada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sayuri Yoshinaga, Shōfukutei Tsurube II, Yu Aoi, Yuriko Ishida, Ryō Kase, Takashi Sasano
Roles Ginko
Rating69% 3.487563.487563.487563.487563.48756
The story unfolds as the young Koharu (Yū Aoi), the daughter of a pharmacist in a modest neighborhood of Tokyo, is about to get married to the son of a prestigious family, and even before the event everybody is anxious that Tetsuro (Tsurube Shofukutei), the younger brother of Koharu's mother, Ginko (Sayuri Yoshinaga), might join the wedding ceremony, as he is considered to be the black sheep of the family and even Ginko and Koharu consider him to be an embarrassment, even though he has lived with the family for quite some time after the death of Koharu's father.
Kabei: Our Mother
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
, 2h12
Directed by Yōji Yamada
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano, Rei Dan, Mirai Shida, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Keiko Toda
Roles Kayo Nogami
Rating75% 3.787793.787793.787793.787793.78779
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
Actress
Actress (1987)
, 2h10
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Sayuri Yoshinaga, Bunta Sugawara, Mitsuko Mori, Kōji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai, Tōru Watanabe
Roles Kinuyo Tanaka
Rating65% 3.267533.267533.267533.267533.26753
Tokyo, 1926. Kinuyo Tanaka, sa mère Yae, son oncle Gentarō, ses deux frères Shozo et Haruji et sa sœur Tamayo s'installent dans leur nouvelle maison suite au transfert de l'actrice des studios Shimokamo de la Shōchiku situés à Kyoto à ceux de Kamata à Tokyo. Ce transfert a pu se faire grâce à l'influence de Hiroshi Shimizu qui couve la jeune actrice d'un œil protecteur. Kinuyo entretient sa famille grâce à son salaire d'actrice. Sa mère lui a demandé de ne pas adopter de nom de scène et de garder son véritable nom dans le secret espoir que sa notoriété permette de retrouver son frère ainé, Ryosuke, qui a disparu dix ans plus tôt après s'être soustrait à la conscription.
The Makioka Sisters
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
, 2h20
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Keiko Kishi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Jūzō Itami, Kayoko Shiraishi, Kōji Ishizaka, Ittoku Kishibe
Roles Yukiko Makioka: Melancholy Yukiko is still unmarried at 30, because, when the Makioka family was in its heyday, all of her marriage proposals were turned down as not being good enough. Now, with the family in decline, marriage opportunities are much more
Rating71% 3.5954453.5954453.5954453.5954453.595445
The story takes place in Japan primarily during the late 1930s (Shōwa period). The sisters live in the Kansai area (Kobe/Osaka) and travel to Tokyo and other prefectures throughout the novel.
Taro the Dragon Boy
Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)
, 1h15
Directed by Peter Fernandez, Kirio Urayama
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons
Actors Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kirin Kiki, Kazuo Kumakura, Miina Tominaga
Roles Tatsuya (voice)
Rating74% 3.7322253.7322253.7322253.7322253.732225
In the distant past of Japan a lazy and selfish Taro loves to eat and sleep and wrestle with the animals. With no direction in his life, a Tengu appears that gives him a special potion. With this potion, he gains the strength of a hundred men - but he can only use it when he is helping others. After drinking the potion, Taro, day by day, begins to understand what it means to help other, first my fighting Akaoni (Red Oni) to save Aya, a young girl gifted with the flute, then by helping others in his village collect fire wood. One night his grandmother tells him of his mother's transformation into a dragon. Taro then begins his search for his mother. Before his search for his mother starts, Taro again confronts Akaoni after hearing from the animals that Aya was captured by Kurooni (Black Oni). After a brief fight, Akaoni agrees to help Taro save Aya from Kurooni. After besting Kunooni, Taro finds out he has also saved a village terrorized by Kurooni and Akaoni, the later bullied into the former's service. Taro then aids Akaoni by throwing him into the clouds to serve the thunder god. After the village celebrates Taro's deeds, he starts his search. He comes upon an old woman and is tricked into service in her rice patties. After a successful harvest year and learning the truth from a giant serpent living in the lake next to the old woman's rice farm, Taro takes the fruits of his labor and gives it to the old woman's former employees and others, leaving her with little. During his conversation with the serpent, Taro learns that nine mountain overs lives a yamanba that could point him in the right direction. Taro takes that information and finds the yamanba. The yamanba tells him what he seeks and lets slip she was responsible for the serpent. After narrowing escaping the yamanba, Taro is overpowered by yukionna. The following morning, Aya finds Taro near frozen and able to revive him. With her aid, Taro finds the lake where his mother, Tatsu, now lives. Tatsu tells Taro why she was transformed, as a mother heavy with child fulfilling her duties to her unborn child, she needed to eat, but neglecting her duties to the rest of her village, she left nothing of her catch for the other workers. Taro then proposes a means to make the lives of the villager back home better, by making for them a new home able to be large rice patties. Taro and Tatsu them attempt to break the dam that formed the lake Tatsu resides. Although they succeed, Tatsu's body is broken and all seeing it after the lake had emptied concluded she had died. Morning the lost of his mother, Taro is relieved to see her life was returned and she is yet again human. Their actions are successful and the new flooded low lands enable prosperity for all the villagers Taro has helped, not only along his way but from his home village.
Tora-san's Lovesick
Tora-san's Lovesick (1974)
, 1h44
Directed by Yōji Yamada
Genres Comedy
Actors Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Chieko Baishō, Seiji Miyaguchi, Tatsuo Matsumura, Chishū Ryū
Roles Utako
Rating69% 3.457483.457483.457483.457483.45748
Tora-san returns home informing his family of his intention to marry. The plans are foiled when the woman's long-missing husband reappears. Later, Tora-san meets Utako from Tora-san's Dear Old Home (1972). Her husband has died, and, out of obligation, she is living with his demanding parents. Tora-san persuades her to come to Tokyo, where she meets her estranged father, an author. Torasan's romantic intentions with Utako come to nothing when she decides to devote her life to teaching mentally handicapped children.
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Tora-san's Dear Old Home (1972)
, 1h48
Directed by Yōji Yamada
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Chieko Baishō, Seiji Miyaguchi, Tatsuo Matsumura, Chishū Ryū
Roles Utako
Rating66% 3.324883.324883.324883.324883.32488
Tora-san meets three women on vacation when he travels to Fukui. One of the women meets him at his home, and he believes she has fallen in love with him, unaware that she hopes to marry a potter in the countryside.