Sumiko Sakamoto

1936 Age: 84 years old

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sumiko Sakamoto was born on November 26, 1936 in Osaka, Japan. Sakamoto is a singer and award-winning actress whose heartfelt performances made her a favorite of the late film director Shohei Imamura. Imamura cast her in three of his films, among them "The Ballad of Narayama," winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, in which her brilliant portrayal of an elderly mother not only earned her a kiss from Orson Welles, but also the Japanese Best Actress Award from Nihon Academy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sumiko Sakamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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1961 Travel with GhostOsumi 1963 Legends of Honor 1964 Escape from JapanMitsuko 1964 The Call of Flesh 1964 Clamouring CaninesMachiko 1966 The PornographersHaru Masuda 1966 Silence Has No Wings 1967 The Silent GunTamako Tamamura 1967 The Shogun and His MistressesTami 1978 Sometimes... Like a Prostitute 1983 The Ballad of NarayamaOrin 1986 Be Free!Mutsuko's mother 1995 The Stairway to the Distant PastMinato no Mary 2001 Warm Water Under a Red Bridge 2005 The Buried Forest

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