Mitsuko Baisho

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1946-11-22 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Ibaraki, Japan

Mitsuko Baisho

Biography

Mitsuko Baisho (born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a noted Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2002. Baisho has also been in films of Akira Kurosawa. She also won the awards for best actress at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Love Letter and Ikiteru uchi ga hana nano yo shindara sore made yo to sengen.She also won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for The Geisha and at the 22nd Hochi Film Award for Tokyo Lullaby. Her sister is actress-singer Chieko Baisho.

Acting

1997

The Eel

as Misako Nakajima

1980

Kagemusha

as Oyunokata

1990

Dreams

as Mother of 'I'

2001

Turn

as Mori Satoko

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

as Kazuko Enokizu

2018

1969

Tenchu!

as Onimo

2012

2010

The Lady Shogun and Her Men

as Yorinobu Mizuno

2006

Tales from Earthsea

as The Mistress (voice)

1984

The Crazy Family

as Saeko Kobayashi

1983

The Geisha

as Osodé

1976

Manhunt

as Otsuki Kyoko

1989

My Phoenix

as Takako Demachi

1995

A Last Note

as Naoko Yazawa

1983

P. P. Rider

as Ikuko

2022

Offbeat Cops

as Sachiko Naruse

1997

Tokyo Lullaby

as Hisako Hamanaka

1985

1970

1998

2008

All Around Us

as Namiko Yoshida

2009

Counterfeit

as Kageko Sada

2002

Out

as Yoshie 'Sensei' Azuma

1978

1981

Why Not?

as Oko

2024

52-Hertz Whales

as Sachie Muranaka

1987

Zegen

as Shiho

2014

Time Never Stops

as Iku Hamaguchi

1970

Charming Men

as Haruko

1981

1973

1977

A Scream from Nowhere

as Sumiko Miyajima - The Actress

2011

Dendera

as Masari Shiina

2005

2016

Sing My Life

as Katsu Seyama

2016

Big & Little

as Masako

1984

Curtain Call

as Haruko Nakamichi

2017

1997

1987

Sure Death 4

as Ofuku

1977

The Life of Chikuzan

as Chikuzan's 2nd wife

1985

Love Letter

as Kyoko Takehara

2002

11’09”01—September 11

as Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

1967

Lover's Duet

as Yachiyo Kawada

2016

Bōkyō

as (segment "Mikan no hana")

1970

1969

2018

Snowman

as Miyuki (old)

2020

1986

Cabaret

as Megumi Nanbu

1989

Sensei

as Shota's mother

2021

In the Wake

as Kei Tōshima

2010

Postcard

as Chiyo Morikawa, the Mother-in-Law

2025

Brighter Days

as Sae Yukino

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