Nobuko Miyamoto
Nobuko Miyamoto (Japanese宫本 信 子, Miyamoto Nobuko, born March 27, 1945 in Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan ) is a Japanese actress and singer.
Biography
The 156 -centimeter-tall actress graduated from high school in 1963 and in 1964 her first acting role in Minoru Betsuyakus play Mikazuke no Kage. There were other theater roles, for example in 1967 in Koichi Kimura Chi no mure and Tadashi Imai Jinzu - kawa. Since 1966, she also had extras and supporting roles in feature films and television productions. In the 1980s, followed by larger television roles.
In 1969 she married actor Juzo Itami, who also worked as a director and screenwriter from 1984. Miyamoto played in most of his satirical comedies a major role. In his published in 1984, the first commercially successful directorial effort entitled funeral ceremony an actor couple must hold at home the three-day funeral of the father of the wife, which collide traditional and modern behavior. The actress played the lead role alongside Tsutomu Yamazaki and was praised for her portrayal of Chizuko Amamiya from critics. At the ceremony the Hochi Film Awards - 1984, she won a special prize. She was also nominated for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress, but could not prevail against Sayuri Yoshinaga itself.
After she had played in Tampopo (1985 ), the eponymous noodle restaurant owner, she put 1987 in Japan hugely successful comedy The Steuerfahnderin the Steuerfahnderin Ryoko Itakura is that do not pay a his debts to the government ending a millionaire visits, which then makes her a marriage proposal. 1988 was followed by the sequel The Steuerfahnderin strikes again. For both Steuefahnderinnen movies she was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress; for the first film, she won the award for which she was nominated a total of eight times over the course of her career, and also received the Kinema Junpo price.
In the 1990s she continued to play in the films of her husband. So she gave in Geisha of happiness (1990 ) the Geisha Nayoko, of which it is said, they bring happiness to men, and in the art of extortion (1992 ) the lawyer Mahiru Inoue, which specializes in yakuza.
As Juzo Itami 1997 committed suicide, because he allegedly wanted to prove that his alleged affair did not correspond to the truth, she ended her career as a film actress, and turned back to the theater and television to. Following the controversial death of her husband, she also began a singing career. In February 2005, she released a recorded in Tokyo live CD with jazz pieces.
In 2007, she played after a ten year absence from the film in Isshin Inudōs Bizan a minor role and was nominated for this for the Japanese Academy Award.