Yoshiko Tanaka (actress)

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Yoshiko Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 好 子 , Tanaka Yoshiko ; born April 8, 1956 in Adachi , Tokyo Prefecture , as Yoshiko Odate ( 小 達 好 子 , Odate Yoshiko ); † April 21, 2011 ) was a Japanese actress , voice actress and singer .

Life

Yoshiko Tanaka studied at the Seitoku Short Term University Tokyo . In 1973 the idol music group Candies was founded, which included Tanaka, who was nicknamed Sue for her idol music career , Ran Itō and Miki Fujimura . Candies released their first single called Anata ni Muchū ( あ な た に 夢中 , translated as "Crazy About You") and featured songs like Haruichiban ( 春 一番 ) and Toshishita no Otokonoko ( 年下 の 男 の 子) popular with children and young people in Japan. The group was disbanded in 1978 because the girls in their early twenties wanted to devote themselves to their private lives again.

Yoshiko Tanaka began an acting career in 1980 and starred in films such as Yoichi Maeda's melodrama The Love of a Fisherman (1980) and Tadashi Imai's war drama Himeyuri no Tō (1982). Her greatest acting success came in 1989 with the lead role in Black Rain , Shōhei Imamura's film adaptation of Masuji Ibuse 's novel of the same name . The film, which won awards at the Cannes International Film Festival, tells the story of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima in 1945 and the 22-year-old Yasuko , played by Tanaka, who escapes the disaster but returns to the theater of war out of concern for her foster parents. For this role, the actress won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress in 1990 , the Blue Ribbon Award , the Hochi Film Prize , the Kinema Junpo Prize and the Leading Actress Prize at the Mainichi Film Competition . She also received the latter award for Godzilla, the original giant from the same year.

From the 1980s onwards, Tanaka appeared in numerous television series, for example in 1998 in Kamisama, mousukoshi dake and from 2001 to 2003 in Churasan . In 2006 she spoke a role in the anime fantasy film Brave Story , produced by the Gonzo animation studio . She had already taken on a small synchronous role in the children's cartoon series Ojarumaru , which has been running since 1998 .

She died of breast cancer on April 21, 2011.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sankei.jp.msn.com ( Memento from April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tanaka, Yoshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田中 好 子 (Japanese); Odate, Yoshiko (maiden name); 小 達 好 子 (maiden name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Adachi , Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2011