Personal Info
Birth date
1903-05-24 (122 Years)
Day of death
1969-01-21
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
-Tamae Kiyokawa
Biography
Tamae Kiyokawa (清川玉枝, Kiyokawa Tamae, May 24, 1903 – January 21, 1969) was a Japanese actress born in Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. She is known for her roles in films such as "Haha no omokage" (1959), "Love Letter" (1953), and "Kengô tai gôketsu: Homare no kessen" (1956). She died on January 21, 1969 in Japan.
Filmography
Love for an Idiot
6
Overview:
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.The Song Lantern
6.8
Overview:
A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.Seisaku's Wife
7.3
Overview:
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.Ginza Cosmetics
6.2
Overview:
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.The Blue Sky Maiden
6.795
Overview:
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
NYR
Overview:
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's past, she must decide whether to run or face it—with help from a kind local officer.Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
NYR
Overview:
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.On This Earth
NYR
Overview:
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.Snake Woman's Curse
5.5
Overview:
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.The Snowy Heron
4
Overview:
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.Image of a Mother
10
Overview:
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and new beginnings.Hideko the Bus Conductress
7
Overview:
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.Marriageable Age
NYR
Overview:
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete lack of consideration under polite and superficially perfect manners.The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
NYR
Overview:
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.Sing, Young People
5.8
Overview:
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.China Night
NYR
Overview:
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.Learn from Experience, Part Two
6.2
Overview:
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.The Ditch
7
Overview:
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.The Ginza Three Boys
NYR
Overview:
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.Acting
1968I Sell My Husband as Unknown
1968Rogue as Teruko
1968Age of Japanese Guerrillas as Tora
1968Snake Woman's Curse as Tami
1967Love for an Idiot as Masako
1967Five Star Private as Unknown
1966Women Doing Time as Unknown
1965Chained Bitch as Unknown
1965Seisaku's Wife as Omaki
1964Song of Happiness as Unknown
1963Sing, Young People as Boarding house landlady
1962Danchi fujin as Unknown
1962Mama, I Need You! as Unknown
1962Gakusei geisha koi to kenka as Unknown
1962Sutekina 16-sai as Unknown
1962Kyū-chan ondo as Unknown
1962Red Love, Green Love as Kume Oda
1962Kiriko no unmei as Unknown
1962My Geisha as Amatsu Hisako
1961Boss Takes to the Road as Unknown
1961Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２ as Unknown
1961Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki as Unknown
1961Marriageable Age as Unknown
1961Botchan yarō seizoroi as Unknown
1961The Ginza Three Boys as Unknown
1960The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night as Unknown
1960Tsukinode no ketto as Otami
1960Wait for Tomorrow as Unknown
1960Rumble Festival as Unknown
1960The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo as Unknown
1960Beyond the Hills as Mineko Furukawa
1959Utamaro, Painter of the Woman as Unknown
1959Image of a Mother as Unknown
1958The Snowy Heron as Unknown
1958Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs as Unknown
1958Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei as Unknown
1958Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Unknown
1958The Judo Champ as Unknown
1958Megitsune Buro as Unknown
1958The Boy Who Came Back as Unknown
1958直八子供旅 as Unknown
1957Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Oyoshi
1957On This Earth as Tami - Mineya's wife
1957The Blue Sky Maiden as Unknown
1957Employee Full of Fight as Unknown
1957Good Luck to These Two as Unknown
1956Jacks and Jills as Shino (Rumiko's mother)
1956Will-o'-the-Wisp as Unknown
1956Marathon Samurai as Unknown
1956Masura o hashutsu fukai as Unknown
1956大当り男一代 as 女房お兼
1955Mother and Son as Mitsue Hayakawa
1955Nonki saiban as Unknown
1954Wakai hito-tachi as Unknown
1954The Ditch as Unknown
1954Five Sisters as Unknown
1954A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival as Unknown
1953Love Letter as Unknown
1953Tokyo Profile as Unknown
1952Geisha Waltz as Tomie Yoshida
1952Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo as Female boss
1952Love's Cheerleader as Tamae
1952Third Class Executives as Unknown
1951Tsuki yori no haha as Oyasu
1951Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre as Unknown
1951Ginza Cosmetics as Saku Kineya
1951Wakai musumetachi as Unknown
1951Under the Blossoming Peach as Unknown
1951Nightshade Flower as Unknown
1950Amakara chindōchū as Unknown
1950Oogonju as Nurse Kida
1950Beyond the Hills as Unknown
1950A Mother's Love as Unknown
1950Guntō nanban-sen as Unknown
1950When We Came Back as Unknown
1950Blue Sky Angel as Unknown
1950Akogare no Hawaii kôro as Unknown
1949Rinchi as Unknown
1949Odoroki ikka as Unknown
1949Ghost Cat of Nabeshima as Unknown
1949Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo as Unknown
1949Kekkon Sanjûshi as Aiko's mother
1947Invitation to Happiness as Unknown
1946Lord for a Night as Unknown
1945A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo as Omatsu
1944This Happy Life as Unknown
1943The Song Lantern as Unknown
1942Green Earth as Unknown
1942Currents of Youth as Makiko's Aunt
1941A Man's Flower Road of Triumph as Unknown
1941Hideko the Bus Conductress as Innkeeper
1941Yukiko and Natsuyo as Gin Odagiri
1941Kodakara fūfu as Unknown
1940明朗五人男 as Unknown
1940A Gentle Breeze With Father as Unknown
1940Wedding Day as Unknown
1940Wife of a Lily as Unknown
1940Hideko the Cheerleader as Hideko's grandmother
1940China Night as Unknown
1939The Day Before as Omasa
1939The Old Man of the Propeller as Unknown
1939The Fighting Firemen as Obun
1938Pastoral Symphony as Unknown
1937Learn from Experience, Part Two as Unknown
1937Learn from Experience, Part One as Unknown
1937Karayuki-san as Unknown
1937A Woman's Sorrows as Unknown
1936Morning's Tree-Lined Street as Madame at café
1936The Road I Travel with You as Unknown
1936I Am a Cat as Kaneda's Wife
1935Drifting as Unknown