Personal Info
Birth date
1942-03-17 (83 Years)
Day of death
2024-02-20
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
Yoko Yamamoto
Yohko Yamamoto
Youko Yamamoto
Yōko Yamamoto
Biography
Yōko Yamamoto (山本陽子) is a Japanese actress.
Filmography
SMAP×SMAP
8.5
Overview:
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games. These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking. Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.Blade of the Immortal
6.694
Overview:
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
5.7
Overview:
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.Women of Osaka Castle
NYR
Overview:
Osaka Castle was erected as a result of Hideyoshi Hashiba's (portrayed by Shindo Eitaro) solicitation from Kyogoku Tatsuko to become his consort. During more than 30 years, until the devastation of the castle caused by the Summer Siege of Osaka, a series of tragedies unfold, affecting various women who found themselves at the mercy of fate..Kyo, Futari
NYR
Overview:
The 45th NHK Asadora. Set in an old Kyoto tsukemono (Japanese preserved vegetables) store, this series depicted the conflicts between a woman, her daughter and her father-in-law. It is a story about the relationships of three generation of women in the Nakahide family.The Holy Monsters
8
Overview:
The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a prestigious university hospital to a financially troubled hospital, but there he meets a capable and cool-headed chief nurse named Kasugai Yuka (Nakatani), who teaches him the reality of the medical world. The pure Kengo must face various obstacles and challenges as he tears off the “masks” of respected professionals – doctors, nurses, and educators – and uncovers their true natures.Chie the Brat
6.7
Overview:
Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.Nemuri Kyoshiro
NYR
Overview:
Thirteen years after his mother took her own life as a ritual sacrifice for the Black Mass, samurai Kyoshiro (Masakazu Tamura), who lives his life with his eyes turned away from happiness, uses his beloved sword to slay his enemies who come at him.....Diary
NYR
Overview:
Miyata Ayaka (Renbutsu Misako), an office worker, sees her world collapse around her when her mother Miyata Harumi (Kikuchi Momoko) collapses due to illness and is left in a coma because of it. She then discovers that her mother kept a secret diary that she writes with her high school friends and that the lies she has told her have become evident, with nothing to lose. Ayaka will travel to Kaga, in Ishikawa Prefecture, her mother's hometown, to try to clarify the truth of the lie in her mother's secret diary.Village of Eight Gravestones
6.7
Overview:
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi YokomizoGo, Go Second Time Virgin
6.73
Overview:
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.My Sweetheart
NYR
Overview:
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.Matsumoto Seicho's Black Leather Notebook
10
Overview:
Upon finding out about the existence of a huge slush fund, veteran teller Haraguchi Motoko carefully plans for six months and finally succeeds in embezzling 75 million yen, which she uses to open a club in Ginza.Chivalry Broken from All Sides
NYR
Overview:
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yakuza's life, and the passionate fate of his named sister Maki, nicknamed "The Scarlet Cherry Blossom", who falls in love with him without suspecting that he was the one who was responsible for her father's death and to whom she should take revenge.The Family
10
Overview:
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.Tokyo wa Koisuru
NYR
Overview:
Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away... Akira Saiga of "Dainippon Chambera Den" wrote the story, and Nozomu Yanase of "Northern Town" directed this youth work. Film by Muneo Ueda of "Early Youth Blue Fruit".White Shadow
8
Overview:
Noriko Shimura is on duty for the first time at Gyoda Hospital. The duty doctor is Yosuke Naoe. After 9PM Jiro Toda, a childhood friend of Noriko's, is brought in with a cut to his forehead from a fight. But Naoe has gone out for a drink, and can't be found. Both Toda and the ambulance crew become angry and demand to know where the doctor is. Naoe returns and seeing the commotion, he orders Toda be locked in a toilet until he calms down. Noriko is horrified by Naoe's attitude but is later impressed with his ability as a surgeon when treating Toda' s injury. This is their first fateful meeting...Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
6.2
Overview:
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...The Prisoner of Sakura
NYR
Overview:
With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".Lone Rebel
NYR
Overview:
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.Only on Mondays
6.2
Overview:
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.The Tale of Genji
NYR
Overview:
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.Massacre Gun
7.2
Overview:
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.Red Handkerchief
7
Overview:
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.Taiyō no Namida
NYR
Overview:
The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his younger brother in the hospital. Ogawa lies to Shoji that he has a son and asks him to do something extraordinary for him...Return to Kanto Prison
NYR
Overview:
Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.Acting
2019The Prisoner of Sakura as Grandmother Kikue
2018Diary (4 Episodes) as Miyata Makiko
2017Blade of the Immortal as Yaobikuni
2016Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife as Unknown
2012The Holy Monsters (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2011Dendera as Hikari Asami
2004山村美紗サスペンス 小京都 飛騨高山殺人事件 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1996SMAP×SMAP (1 Episode) as Bistro Guest
1994Father and Son Hawk (11 Episodes) as Unknown
1991Sure Death 5 as Goto Chise
1990Kyo, Futari (151 Episodes) as 母・能田妙子
1986Blue Lake Girl as Ameko Takigawa / Mizue Takigawa
1983Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series (1, 1 Episode) as Yayoi Hōgen, Tomoe Osakabe
1982Matsumoto Seicho's Black Leather Notebook (6 Episodes) as Haraguchi Motoko
1981Chie the Brat as Unknown
1977Village of Eight Gravestones as Haruyo Tajimi
1976Cobra 2 as Miyoko
1974White Runway (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1974Cobra as Miyoko
1974The Family as Sanae Manpyo
1973White Shadow (14 Episodes) as Unknown
1972Nemuri Kyoshiro (26 Episodes) as Mihoyo
1972Unknown Comrade (19 Episodes) as Unknown
1971Taiyō no Namida (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1971Onna no Iji as Hanai Shizue
1971Night Butterflies as Unknown
1970Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song as Unknown
1970Women of Osaka Castle (39 Episodes) as Unknown
1969The Cleanup as Unknown
1969Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders as Unknown
1969Lone Rebel as Unknown
1969Ginza Poacher as Unknown
1969100 Gamblers as Unknown
1969Yabanjin no Nekutai as Unknown
1969Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin as Unknown
1969Whirlwind Of Love as Unknown
1969ドリフターズですよ！特訓特訓また特訓 as Unknown
1969Youth Bell as Unknown
1969Go, Go Second Time Virgin as Unknown
1968The Final Winner? as Unknown
1968Duel in the Storm as Koyuki
1968Seishun no kaze as Unknown
1968Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii as Unknown
1968The Sweet Interns as Unknown
1967Return to Kanto Prison as Yukie Okai
1967My Sweetheart as Yoko Yamamoto
1967Rusty Pendant as Unknown
1967Massacre Gun as Aiko
1967Gappa, the Triphibian Monster as Itoko Koyanagi
1967Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows as Emi
1967Birth of a Fighter as Oyuki
1967Dreams Come True at Night as Yoko katagiri
1966Chivalry Broken from All Sides as Koshi
1966Watashi, chigatteiru kashira as Yamanaka
1966Cry for Sorrow as Unknown
1966Night of Sorrow as Machiko Asanuma
1966Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Eriko Hamamura
1966The Tale of Genji as Little Lady Akashi
1965The Passionate Spinster as Mitsuko Tsurukawa
1965Boku dōshite namida ga deru no as Unknown
1965Tokyo wa Koisuru as Unknown
1965Murder Unincorporated as Emi / Miyo
1965Thanks for the Tears as Unknown
1965Seishun no Sabaki as Unknown
1965Modern Yakuza: Chivalry as Unknown
1964Dai nippon kosodoro den as Unknown
1964Profit from Killing as Unknown
1964Tokyo Olympics as Reiko Matsumiya
1964The Scarred Crest as Unknown
1964Kaze to Ki to Sora to as Unknown
1964The Hunter's Diary as Keiko Obana
1964Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ as Unknown
1964Hanayome wa jū go-sai as Unknown
1964Only on Mondays as Unknown
1964Red Handkerchief as Unknown