Personal Info
Birth date
1955-04-29 (70 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ikeda, Osaka, Japan
Also known as
다나카 유코
田中 裕子
Yūko Tanaka
Yuuko Tanaka
Yûko Tanaka
Yuko Tanaka
Biography
Yuko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television after she graduated from Meiji University.
Filmography
Oshin
6.7
Overview:
Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.Mare
7.7
Overview:
Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The family rents a couple's home who run a salt pond. Mare's father starts a new business, but it also fails. Her mother supports the family by working at the salt pond. 8 years later, Mare, about to graduate from high school, decides to work for the Wajima local government. She wants to have a steady job, unlike her father. Her job is to support people who move to Noto.Princess Mononoke
8.3
Overview:
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.Monster
7.924
Overview:
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.Sister Ma
NYR
Overview:
A serialized television series, aired in 1979, based on Hasegawa Machiko's "Sazae-san Uchiakebanashi" (Sazae-san Confessions), which depicts the true vibrant energy and strength of the common people, through their laughter and tears, from the pre-war to the post-war period in Japan.Tales from Earthsea
6.5
Overview:
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy's "fears" against the very one who would help him, Ged.Edo Porn
6
Overview:
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.Blade Runner: Black Lotus
7.112
Overview:
Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.Mother
8.188
Overview:
Yasuko Matsuyuki plays the part of Nao Suzuhara, an elementary school teacher. When she realizes that one of the female students is receiving abuse from her mother, Nao's maternal instincts kick in, and she impulsively decides to bring the girl into her own care. Serving as a substitute mother, Nao takes the child on a trip from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and the two experience various events together along the way.The Real You
8.5
Overview:
Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one’s life to create a “human” in a virtual space.Midnight Diner
7.583
Overview:
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.Why Not?
6.4
Overview:
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.Amagi Pass
6.7
Overview:
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.Osaka Story
5
Overview:
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.Backwater
5.9
Overview:
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.Capone Cries a Lot
5.7
Overview:
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.The Buried Forest
6.4
Overview:
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.Wuthering Heights
6.545
Overview:
Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.The Exam
NYR
Overview:
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.The Firefly
7
Overview:
Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provincial seaside city in southern Kyushu, Yamaoka remains reluctant to discuss his wartime experiences with anyone, much less an intrusive reporter looking for a feature story. Then a series of events shake Yamaoka to the core, forcing him to re-evaluate his past.The Rainbow Seeker
NYR
Overview:
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.One Night
7.2
Overview:
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.Gift of Fire
7.7
Overview:
Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as scientists. Research enthusiast Ishimura Osamu tries to experiment purely but is at the mercy of the time period. His brother, Hiroyuki, also has to face the truth of the war. Asakura Setsu wants only to talk about the future. A story based on historical facts about youth during the tragedy of war.Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
7
Overview:
In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.Demon
7
Overview:
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.Wakaba
1
Overview:
The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wakaba, born and brought up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, lived happily with her parents and younger brother until the Great Hanshin Earthquake shook and destroyed the city in 1995. In the disaster, Wakaba loses her father, who was an architect and moves with her mother and brother to Obi, old castle town in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, where her grandmother lives with her uncle and aunt. Living in Obi's rich natural environment, Wakaba learns that plants can heal people's hearts. She makes a resolution to return to Kobe and reconstruct the city abundant in greenery.Homeland
5.7
Overview:
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.The Whispered City
9
Overview:
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.The Milkwoman
6.3
Overview:
Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
6
Overview:
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.Acting
2024The Real You as Akiko Ishikawa
2023Monster as Makiko Fushimi
2022Thousand and One Nights as Tomiko Wakamatsu
2022Love with a Case (10 Episodes) as Azuki Koarai
2021Gift of Fire as Unknown
2021Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone as Momoko Hidaka
2019One Night as Koharu Inamura
2019The Island of Cats as Yoshie
2018Haruko's Doll as Tomita Shizuko
2018anone (10 Episodes) as Anone Hayashida
2017Ties: A Miraculous Colt (2 Episodes) as Kayoko Matsushita
2016Through Their Eyes as Unknown
2015Mare (156 Episodes) as Okesaku Fumi
2014Midnight Diner as Machiko Tsukaguchi
2014Hana's Miso Soup as Toyoka Yamaoka
2014Homeland as Tomiko
2013Backwater as Jinko
2013Woman (11 Episodes) as Sachi Uesugi
2013Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story as Kinoshita's mother
2012Dearest as Yoko Shimakura
2010Haru's Journey as Aiko Shimizu
2010Mother (11 Episodes) as Mochizuki Hana
2010The Firmament of the Pleiades (28 Episodes) as Empress Dowager Cixi
2008The Homeless Student as Michiyo Kawai
2008Bōshi as Setsu Takemoto
2006Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version) (11 Episodes) as Nakagawa Eiko
2006Tales from Earthsea as Cob (voice)
2005The Milkwoman as Minako Oba
2005The Buried Forest as Unknown
2005Hibi as Kiyoko Koyama
2004Wakaba (151 Episodes) as Unknown
2002The Bleep Brothers as Toyoko
2001The Firefly as Tomoko Yamaoka
2000The Whispered City as Fukuko
1999The Exam as ToshieTogashi
1999Osaka Story as Shimotsuki, Harumi
1997Princess Mononoke as Eboshi Gozen (voice)
1996The Rainbow Seeker as Unknown
1996Terigaki (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1993Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993Wild Geese as Unknown
1991Ghost Story: Flower House as Unknown
1990As If In Flight (48 Episodes) as Unknown
1988Wuthering Heights as Kinu
1987Children on the Island as Hisako Oishi
1985Demon as Keiko
1985Capone Cries a Lot as Kozome Takonoya
1983Oshin (297 Episodes) as Oshin (16 to 46 years old)
1983Amagi Pass as Hana Otsuka, prostitute
1982Tora-san, the Expert as Keiko
1982The Rape as Michiko Yahagi
1981Fifth Movement as Unknown
1981Precious Moments (14 Episodes) as Unknown
1981Edo Porn as Oei
1981Why Not? as Omatsu
1980Tennō no Ryōriban (19 Episodes) as Unknown
1979Daddy Long Legs as ジュディ
1979Sister Ma (156 Episodes) as Isono Machiko
Crew
2021Blade Runner: Black Lotus (1 Episode) ... Motion Actor