Michiyo Ōkusu
Michiyo Okusu 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.
Selected filmography
- Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
- A Fool's Love
- The Yoshiwara Story
- Lady [Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword]
- Onna Gokuakuchō
- Lone [Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons]
- Zigeunerweisen
- Kagero-za
- Location
- Shinran: Path to Purity
- Bedtime Eyes
- Bu Su
- Yumeji
- Face
- Zatōichi
- Akame 48 Waterfalls
- Hanging Garden
- Spring Snow
- The Two in Tracksuits
- The Fallen Angel
- Someday
- I'm Flash!
- The Projects
- ''I Never Shot Anyone''
Honours
- Kinuyo Tanaka Award