She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (Jiken) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi). She also won the award for Best Actress at the 12th Hochi Film Award for Eien no 1/2. At the 25th Moscow International Film Festival, she won the award for Best Actress for her role in Owl. She has received a total of 12 nominations.
She was the favored lead actress of director Kaneto Shindo after his previous lead actress, Nobuko Otowa, died in 1994, and was featured in several of his films from A Last Note in 1995 to Postcard in 2011.
She was previously married to Sanma Akashiya and Seiji Hattori.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/QZgdQ_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yakusho Koji", "alternateName": "役所広司", "birthDate": "January 1, 1956", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Yakusho Koji is a Japanese actor. In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible. In 1983, he landed the role of Oda Nobunaga in the year-long NHK drama Tokugawa Ieyasu and was catapulted to fame. For several years, he played Kuji Shinnosuke (or "Sengoku"), one of the title characters in the jidaigeki Sambiki ga Kiru!. In 1988, he was given a special award for work in cinema by the Japanese Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/kAkW4r_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Natsume Masako", "alternateName": "夏目雅子", "birthDate": "December 17, 1957", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Raised in Naka-ku, Yokohama, while in junior college in 1976 she auditioned for the lead in Nihon TV's "Ai Ga Miemasu Ka?". Chosen from 4,000 applicants, she dropped out of school to pursue an acting career, playing the part under her real name Odate Masako. Masako's mother initially objected to her choice of career and requested that she not use the Odate family name if she gained further work. In 1977, she changed her name to Natsume.
In 1977, she was chosen to represent Kanebo Cosmetics, achieving great popularity after appearing topless as the "Kooky Face" girl in an ad for sunscreen. This popularity led to her recording a song later that year called "Oh! Cookie Face". Many bit parts and a few leads in movies followed but she continued on television.
She died from acute leukemia at the age of 27 in 1985 and is buried in Hōfu, Yamaguchi under the name Masako Nishiyama.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/kvPkkc.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fuji Mariko", "alternateName": "藤真利子, ふじ まりこ, Mariko Fuji", "birthDate": "June 18, 1955", "nationality": "Tokyo, Japan", "description": "", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/fuji-mariko.png" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Takeda Tetsuya", "alternateName": "武田鉄矢", "birthDate": "April 11, 1949", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Tetsuya Takeda, born April 11, 1949, is a Japanese folk singer and actor. Takeda is perhaps most known in Japan for his starring role in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's long-running, highly rated television drama Sannen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/2pP82_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Takita Sakae", "alternateName": "滝田栄", "birthDate": "December 5, 1950", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/ndkELc.jpg" } ], "director": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ohara Makoto", "alternateName": "大原誠", "birthDate": "1937", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/33NvDc.jpg" } ]
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