
Birthday
1933/03/01
Day of death
2009/10/21 (76 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also know as
Yoko Kitada, Yoko Minamida, Youko Minamida, Ёко Минамида, یوکو مینامیدا
Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo, Minamida made her screen debut in 1953 for the Daiei studio and quickly rose to stardom, working with Kenji Mizoguchi on two films: “A Story from Chikamatsu” and “Princess Yang Kwei-fei.” In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio, where she starred in Takumi Furukawa’s “Season of the Sun” (1956), a smash hit that launched the so-called “Sun Tribe” boom for films about rebellious youth l...Read more

(1961) Pigs and Battleships
as Katsuyo

(1963) A Modern Samurai Village
as Yasu Tajima

(1969) Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
as ---

(1962) Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
as ---

(1954) Chikamatsu Monogatari
as Otama

(1953) Zoku jūdai no seiten
as Akiko Yasutomi

(1962) Black Dice
as ---

(1963) Okashina yatsu
as Fujiko, Shuntô

(1995) Salaryman Senka
as ---

(1970) A Young Man's Stronghold
as ---

(1955) Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Hung-tao

(1957) A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Koharu

(1965) Ankoku gai jingi
as ---

(1960) Umi no jōji ni kakero
as ---

(1962) Sun and Stars
as ---

(1961) He Killed Dad
as ---

(1957) Streetlights
as 早川千鶴子

(1962) Last Round
as ---

(1965) The Soundless Cry
as Tokie Matsuura

(1990) Yellow Fangs
as Kiyo

(1977) The Wild Daisy
as Fuki - Masao's Mother

(1956) Season of the Sun
as Eiko Takeda

(1961) The Crimson Plains
as Sakie Yazaki

(1959) Yuganda tsuki
as Namiko Eda

(1955) The Doctor
as ---

(1965) The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as ---

(1953) Jūdai no seiten
as ---

(1960) Return of the Vagabond
as ---

(1962) The Guys Who Put Money on Me
as Sanae Kitazawa

(1960) The Rambler Rides Again
as ---

(1958) Voice Without a Shadow
as Asako Kotani

(1963) Love Comes with Youth
as ---

(1969) Chivalrous Pride
as ---

(1961) Wind and waves of the South
as Yasuko, Kazuo's foster mother

(1963) I Have the Sun in My Back
as Sachiko
(1956) The Happy Dancers
as Michiko Morishita

(1956) Our Town
as Otsuru / Kimie

(1964) An Outlaw
as ---
(1955) The Motherless
as Tomiko
(1956) Tonari no yome
as ---

(1975) Time of First Love
as ---

(1963) Beyond the Green Hills
as Umetaro

(1966) Glorious Fights
as Akemi

(1957) The Barefoot Girl
as ---

(1960) The Poem of the Blue Star
as ---

(1987) This Story of Love
as ---

(1962) Glass-Hearted Johnny
as Yumi

(1964) Jakoman and Tetsu
as Masa

(1961) Tokyo Knights
as Koji's Mother

(1964) The Domain
as ---

(1977) Ame no meguri ai
as ---

(1972) The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as Maid

(1967) Portrait of Chieko
as Kazuko Tsubaki

(1977) House
as Hausu Karei

(1957) The Champion
as Natsuko Miyagawa

(1961) The Man with a Shotgun
as Harue

(1963) Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
as ---

(1959) A Turning to Hell
as Takako

(1958) Stolen Desire
as Chidori Yamamura

(1978) At Noon
as ---

(1961) Quick Draw Joe
as Jane, the dancer

(1957) But the Flesh is Weak
as ---

(1956) Hungry Soul
as Reiko Shiba

(1965) The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
as ---

(1959) Farewell to Southern Tosa
as ---

(1960) Jungle Block
as Kayoko Komuro

(1957) Dancing Sisters
as ---

(1974) Karafuto 1945 Summer
as ---

(2007) Song of Goodbye
as Kyoko Tanabe

(1956) Hungry Soul, Part II
as Reiko Shiba

(1963) The Gambling Monk
as ---

(1962) The Rambler Returns Home
as ---

(1966) Showdown of Men
as ---

(1984) Zero
as Ine Hamada

(1965) The Domain: The Naniwa Story
as ---

(1955) A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
as ---

(1964) Prison Gambler
as Kimura Uta

(1964) Gambler
as Kimura Uta

(1960) The Law's Bloody Wounds
as 榎本吟子

(1953) Jūdai no yūwaku
as ---

(1965) The Tattooed Lord
as ---

(1959) Umi wa kurutte iru
as ---

(1959) Wounded Beast
as ---

(1958) Taiyō o buchi otose
as ---

(1959) When a Man Risks His Life
as ---

(1958) Osaka no kaze
as ---

(1961) Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
as Yuri Harada

(1960) Lone Wolf
as Naomi

(1953) Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten
as ---

(1961) Nosappu no jū
as ---

(1964) To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Misato

(2004) The Motive
as Kinue Ishida

(1978) Take Me Away!
as Tomi Oguchi

(1967) The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
as ---

(1967) The Domain: White Blade
as ---

(1960) Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
as Sumi

(1959) Elegy to Youth
as ---

(1957) Mountain Pass
as ---

(1957) The Awakening
as ---

(1959) Kamen no Onna
as ---

(1959) We Live Today
as ---

(1977) Japanese Humanity and Justice
as ---

(1963) Kiriko's Tango
as ---

(1961) Zurari oretacha yōjinbō
as ---

(1957) Aishū no sono
as ---

(1989) Tears of a Swan
as Atsuko Kawata

(1982) Yôi don
as 栄市の母・せい

(1970) Niji
as 三谷かな子

(1997) Lost Paradise
as Eto Kuniko

(1976) Akai Shougeki
as ---
(1990) 砂山の唄殺人事件
as ---

(2002) Gokusen
as Matsubara