Personal Info
Birth date
1916-09-17 (108 Years)
Day of death
1992-11-04
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Also known as
Кунико Миякэ
Yasushi Miura
Kuniko Miyake
Biography
Kuniko Miyake (三宅 邦子, Miyake Kuniko, 17 September 1916 – 4 November 1992) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1934 to 1991.
Filmography
An Autumn Afternoon
7.8
Overview:
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.Tokyo Story
8.2
Overview:
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.Late Spring
8.006
Overview:
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.Good Morning
7.7
Overview:
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.Until the End of the World
6.775
Overview:
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.Early Spring
7.523
Overview:
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.The Makioka Sisters
7.4
Overview:
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
7.6
Overview:
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.9
Overview:
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.Late Autumn
7.761
Overview:
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.Gonza the Spearman
7
Overview:
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.The Blue Sky Maiden
6.8
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.Burden of Life
6.4
Overview:
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.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.Flame of My Love
5.6
Overview:
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.Love Under the Crucifix
6.889
Overview:
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.Eclipse
NYR
Overview:
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.The Radiant Prince
6
Overview:
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.Escapade in Japan
5.5
Overview:
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country.The Eternal Life
NYR
Overview:
This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness.The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
6.8
Overview:
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.The Phantom Horse
6
Overview:
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.Tokyo Omnibus
NYR
Overview:
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.Etajima, the Naval Academy
NYR
Overview:
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.Acting
TBATasogare no Tokyo Tower as Unknown
1991Until the End of the World as Mrs. Mori
1990Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
1986Gonza the Spearman as Iwaki's wife
1983The Makioka Sisters as Tominaga's Aunt
1974The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges as Unknown
1968The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch as Sister Yamakawa
1968The Daring Nun as Mother Superior
1968The Final Winner? as Unknown
1967Journey as Unknown
1967Sodachi zakari as Unknown
1966Dianas of the Campus as Unknown
1964The Eternal Life as Unknown
1963Police Precinct: Teenage Footsteps as Unknown
1963Youth After School as Fumi
1962Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi as Unknown
1962An Autumn Afternoon as Nobuko
1962Zoku aizen katsura as Unknown
1962Hibari's Tale of Pathos as Unknown
1962Mount Hakone as Unknown
1962Tokyo's Business District as Unknown
1962San'nin musume kanpai! as Unknown
1962Love Under the Crucifix as Unknown
1962Flower in a Storm as Unknown
1962A Roaring Trade as Unknown
1961The Burdened Sisters as Mother Setsuko
1961The Radiant Prince as Unknown
1961白い南風 as Unknown
1961北上川悲歌 as Unknown
1961Door of Flowers as Unknown
1961東京の夜は泣いている as Kikuko, Masaya Taki's mother
1961若い涙を吹きとばせ as Unknown
1960Late Autumn as Nobuko
1960White Cliffs as Unknown
1960Wakai suhada as Unknown
1959Tokyo Omnibus as Unknown
1959Someday I'll Know as Haruko Shiroyama
1959Etajima, the Naval Academy as Unknown
1959Good Morning as Tamiko Hayashi
1959The Makioka Sisters as Unknown
1958The Snowy Heron as Unknown
1958Bright Young Maidens as Mihoko Ishizawa, Kanako's Mother
1958Love River as Unknown
1958Mother as Unknown
1957Escapade in Japan as Michiko Tanaka
1957On This Earth as Yoshie, Wakako's mum
1957The Blue Sky Maiden as Machiko Mimura
1957Chikaiteshi as Unknown
1956The Rose on His Arm as Masahiro's mother
1956Kobushi no hana no sakukoro as Unknown
1956Summer in Eclipse as Akiko Mishima
1956Children Seeking a Mother as Shizuko Fujisawa
1956Early Spring as Yukiko Kawai
1955Ejima and Ikushima as 天英院
1955花眞珠 as Unknown
1955Mother's Ambition as Unknown
1955The Phantom Horse as Hagino
1955Farewell Song as Unknown
1954Mother's First Love as Unknown
1954Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass as Unknown
1954Aizen katsura as Unknown
1954Hanran as Unknown
1954Bannai Tarao Series Demon King of Kyokumadan as Unknown
1953Tokyo Story as Fumiko Hirayama
1953The Wild Geese as Osada
1953Zoku jūdai no seiten as Hisako Yasutomi
1952Dôkoku as Unknown
1952The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Chizu Yamauchi
1952Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove as Unknown
1952Kyōshū as Unknown
1952Youth of the Son as Unknown
1952A Ripple in a Morning as Kayo
1951Early Summer as Fumiko Mamiya
1951Ah, Youth as Unknown
1951I Yearn for Father as Unknown
1950Homecoming as Unknown
1950Battle of Roses as Unknown
1950Alps Story: The Wild as Unknown
1950A Female Doctor's Examination Room as Mrs. Kawamura
1949Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen as Unknown
1949Island of Horrors as Sanae
1949Late Spring as Akiko Miwa
1949Late Night Confession as Unknown
1949Flame of My Love as Toshiko Kishida
1948The Portrait as Unknown
1941君と僕 as Kubo's wife
1941Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family as Kazuko
1941Introspection Tower as Ms. Natsumura
1940Okinu and Banto as Unknown
1940Namida no Sekinin as Unknown
1939Haha o tataeru uta as Unknown
1939New Woman Question and Answer as Unknown
1939A Brother and His Younger Sister as Akiko Mamiya
1939Okayo's Preparedness as Osumi - Dance master
1938Family Diary as Kikue Hara
1938Half Virgin as Unknown
1938Queen of the Wind as Unknown
1937The Trio's Engagements as Junko
1937The Golden Demon as Mitsue Akagashi
1937Renai muteki kantai as Unknown
1936Housewife Camellia as Unknown
1936Boy Aviation Pilots as Unknown
1935Burden of Life as Unknown
1935Poppy as Fujio Kono
1934Eclipse as Tomone's friend