Michiyo Yasuda
February 27, 1946 · 80 years old
Michiyo Okusu (大楠 道代, Ōkusu Michiyo, born February 27, 1946) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a…
Known For
7 titles
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader.
Zigeunerweisen
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
Hanging Garden
A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.
Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
The Projects
An elderly couple is offered to meet with their dead son by strange people in exchange for herbal medicine.