was a Japanese stage and film actress.
She appeared in about 90 films between 1927 and 1991, often under the direction of
Hiroshi Shimizu and
Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and ...
,
and received numerous awards for her stage and film performances.
Biography
Sachiko Murase was born Sada Matsui in
Honjo Ward,
Tokyo
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.
A graduate from Tokyo Prefectural Second Girls' High School, she joined the Tsukiji Shogekijo theatre in 1925.
At the age of nineteen she became a stage actress, associated with Japan's leftist avant-garde. Murase gave her film debut in 1927 and entered the
Shochiku
is a Japanese entertainment company. Founded in 1895, it initially managed '' kabuki'' theaters in Kyoto; in 1914, it also acquired ownership of the Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo. In 1920, Shochiku entered the film production industry and establis ...
film studio four years later.
Together with her husband Kihachi Kitamura, she formed the Geijutsu Shogekijo theatre in 1937.
In 1944, the year following the dissolution of Geijutsu Shogekijo, she was one of the founding members of the
Haiyuza Theatre Company together with
Koreya Senda,
Eijirō Tōno,
Chieko Higashiyama,
Eitarō Ozawa and others.
Since the mid-1950s, she also regularly appeared on television.
She was the oldest active actress of
Shingeki
was a leading form of theatre in Japan that was based on modern realism. Born in the early years of the 20th century, it sought to be similar to modern Western theatre, putting on the works of the ancient Greek classics, William Shakespeare, Moli ...
(Japanese modern
realist) theatre in her lifetime.
Selected filmography
* (1930)
* (1930)
* (1931)
* (1931) – Ayako Kirihara
* (1932) – Mitsuko, reporter
* (1932)
* (1932) – Ayako Kirihara
* (1933)
* (1933)
* ''A Woman Crying in Spring'' (1933) – Oaki
* (1933)
* (1933)
* (1934)
* ''The Boss’s Son at College'' (1934) – Fumiko
* (1935) – Yoshiko
* (1935)
* (1936) – Namie – stepdaughter
* (1938) – Mrs. Hayakawa
* ''
Sincerity
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'' (1939) – Mrs. Asada
* (1942) – Sakai's wife
* (1942) – Sakai's Wife
* (1942)
* ''Port of Flowers'' (1943) – O-yuki
* ''Marriage'' – Fujie Sugawara
* ''Spring Awakens'' (1947) – Masa Hirobe
* ''
Apostasy
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'' (1948) – Inoko's wife
* ''Here's to the Young Lady'' (1949) – Proprietress of the bar
* (1949) – Yasuko
* ''A Broken Drum'' (1949) – Kuniko
* ''The Angry Street'' (1950) – Sudō's mother
* (1950)
* (1950)
* (1951) – Mihiko
* (1951)
* (1951) – Sakiko Kodama
* (1952)
* ''
Carmen's Pure Love'' (1952)
* (1952) – Doctor
* (1953) – Itsuko, Natsuko's aunt
* (1953) – Setsuko's mother
* (1953) – Madame
* (1953) – Masako
* (1953)
* (1954) – Shizuko Matsuo
* (1955) – Aoshima's mother
* ''
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love'' (1955) – Junko Matsushima
* ''
Princess Yang Kwei-Fei'' (1955) – Chengfei (uncredited)
* (1955) – Motoko
* (1955) – Landlady
* (1955) – Sei Komatsu
* (1955) – Satoko Kitahara
* (1955)
* ''
Ryūri no Kishi'' (1956) – Uta, Chiho's grand mother
* (1956) – Mineko Iizuka
* (1956) – Teruko Hisamoto
* (1956) – Atsuko
* (1956)
* (1957)
* (1957)
* ''
Kisses'' (1957) – Kikyoko Shirakawa
* (1958) – Takako Sakō
* (1958) – Toshiko
* (1959)
* (1959) – Naoko, Shinobu's mother
* (1959)
* (1959) – Shizuko, Nogi's wife
* ''
A False Student'' (1960) – Hikoichi's mother
* (1961)
* (1962) – Tsuya
* (1962)
* (1962) – Hatsu Shiozaki
* (1962) – Atsuko Yamagata
* ''
Zatoichi the Fugitive'' (1963) – Maki
* (1963) – Setsu Noro
* (1964) – Fujiko Arima
* (1964) – Matsuyo Hidaka
* ''
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man'' (1965) – Shimazo's wife
* ''The School of Spies'' (1966) – Kikuno Miyoshi
* ''The Kii River'' (1966) – Yasu
* (1966)
* ''
Lost Spring'' (1967) – Taza Murakoshi
* ''Love for an Idiot (1967) – Sumie
* ''
The Snow Woman
is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. The film is an expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story as it appeared in the 1904 collection '' Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Thing ...
'' (1968) – Soyo
* (1970)
* (1978)
* (1980) – Fusae Kawazu (Yūko's mother)
* ''
Station'' (1981) – Ryosuke's mother
* (1983)
* ''
A Promise'' (1986) – Tatsu, Ryōsaku's wife
* ''
Rhapsody in August'' (1991) – Kane
Awards and honours (selected)
* 1965: Ministry of Education's Outstanding Performance prize
* 1986:
Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''A Promise''
* 1989: Kinokuniya Theatre Award for ''Arifuku shijin''
* 1990:
Order of the Sacred Treasure
The is a Japanese Order (distinction), order, established on 4 January 1888 by Emperor Meiji as the Order of Meiji. Originally awarded in eight classes (from 8th to 1st, in ascending order of importance), since 2003 it has been awarded in six c ...
, 4th Class
* 1991:
Nikkan Sports Film Award
The , also called the Nikkan Sports Yujiro Ishihara Film Prizes, are annual film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Nikkan Sports'' newspaper since 1988.
The categories of ''Fans' Choice Award for Best Film'' and ''Fans' Choice Award for Best Act ...
for Best Actress for ''Rhapsody in August''
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1905 births
1993 deaths
Japanese film actresses
Actresses from Tokyo
20th-century Japanese actresses
People from Sumida
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