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 film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas.[1]

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Selected filmography

• Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)
• A Fool's Love (1967)
• The Yoshiwara Story (1968)
• Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword (1969)
• Onna Gokuakuchō (1970)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
• Zigeunerweisen (1980)
• Kagero-za (1981)
• Location (1984)
• Shinran: Path to Purity (1987)
• Bedtime Eyes (1987)
• Yumeji (1991)
• Face (2000)
• Zatōichi (2003)
• Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
• Hanging Garden (2005)
• Spring Snow (2005)
• The Two in Tracksuits (2008)
• The Fallen Angel (2010)
• Someday (2011)
• I'm Flash! (2012)
• I Never Shot Anyone (2020)

Honours

• Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2011)[2]

References

External links

• Michiyo Okusu at IMDb

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