Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto ( Japanese 宮本 信 子 , Miyamoto Nobuko ; born March 27, 1945 in Otaru , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese actress and singer .

biography

The 156 centimeter tall actress graduated from high school in 1963 and had her first acting role in Minoru Betsuyaku's play Mikazuke no Kage in 1964 . Other theater roles followed, for example in 1967 in Koichi Kimura's Chi no mure and in Tadashi Imai's Jinzu-kawa . Since 1966 she has also had extras and supporting roles in feature films and television productions. Major television roles followed in the 1980s.

In 1969 she married the actor Jūzō Itami , who from 1984 also worked as a director and screenwriter. Miyamoto has starred in most of his satirical comedies. In his first commercially successful directorial work, published in 1984, entitled Funeral Ceremony , a couple of actors have to hold the three-day funeral of their wife's father at home, where traditional and modern behavior collide. The actress starred alongside Tsutomu Yamazaki and received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Chizuko Amamiya . At the 1984 Hochi Film Awards , she won a special prize. She was also nominated for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress , but couldn't prevail against Sayuri Yoshinaga .

After she played the eponymous noodle restaurant owner in Tampopo (1985), she portrayed the tax investigator Ryoko Itakura in the 1987 comedy Die Steuerfahnderin, which is extremely successful in Japan , who visits a millionaire who does not want to pay his debts to the government, who then proposes to her . In 1988 the sequel followed The tax investigator strikes again . For both tax investigator films she was nominated for the Japanese Academy Award in the category Best Actress ; for the first film she won the award, for which she was nominated a total of eight times in the course of her career, and also received the Kinema Junpo Prize .

She continued to star in her husband's films through the 1990s. In Geisha of Happiness (1990) she gave the geisha Nayoko , who is said to bring good luck to men, and in The Art of Blackmail (1992) the lawyer Mahiru Inoue , who specializes in yakuza .

When Jūzō Itami committed suicide in 1997 because he allegedly wanted to prove that the affair he was accused of was not true, she ended her career as a film actress and turned back to the theater and television. After the controversial death of her husband, she also began a singing career. In February 2005 she released a live CD with jazz pieces recorded in Tokyo .

In 2007 she played a supporting role in Isshin Inudōs Bizan after a ten-year absence from film and was nominated for this for the Japanese Academy Award.

Filmography (selection)

• 1971: Otoko wa tsurai yo: Junjo hen
• 1984: Funeral Ceremony ( Ososhiki )
• 1985: Tampopo
• 1987: The tax investigator ( Marusa no onna )
• 1988: The tax investigator strikes again ( Marusa no onna II )
• 1989: Sweet Home
• 1989: A un
• 1989: Fancy Dance
• 1990: Geisha of Luck ( A-ge-man )
• 1992: The Art of Blackmail ( Minbo no onna )
• 1993: Dance on the Abyss ( Daibyonin )
• 1995: Shizukana seikatsu
• 1996: Sūpah no onna
• 1997: Marutai no onna
• 1997: Radio Time ( Rajio no jikan )
• 2007: Bizan

Web links

• Nobuko Miyamoto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official Website (Japanese)
• Nobuko Miyamoto in the German dubbing index