Sachiko Murase
Sachiko Murase 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, and received numerous awards for her stage and film performances.
Biography
Sachiko Murase was born Sada Matsui in Honjo Ward, Tokyo. 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 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 theatre in her lifetime.Selected filmography
- – Ayako Kirihara
- – Mitsuko, reporter
- – Ayako KiriharaA Woman Crying in Spring – OakiThe Boss’s Son at College – Fumiko
- – Yoshiko
- – Namie – stepdaughter
- – Mrs. HayakawaSincerity – Mrs. Asada
- – Sakai's wife
- – Sakai's WifePort of Flowers – O-yukiMarriage – Fujie SugawaraSpring Awakens – Masa HirobeApostasy – Inoko's wifeHere's to the Young Lady – Proprietress of the bar
- – YasukoA Broken Drum – KunikoThe Angry Street – Sudō's mother
- – Mihiko
- – Sakiko KodamaCarmen's Pure Love
- – Doctor
- – Itsuko, Natsuko's aunt
- – Setsuko's mother
- – Madame
- – Masako
- – Shizuko Matsuo
- – Aoshima's motherA Girl Isn't Allowed to Love – Junko MatsushimaPrincess Yang Kwei-Fei – Chengfei
- – Motoko
- – Landlady
- – Sei Komatsu
- – Satoko KitaharaRyūri no Kishi – Uta, Chiho's grand mother
- – Mineko Iizuka
- – Teruko Hisamoto
- – AtsukoKisses – Kikyoko Shirakawa
- – Takako Sakō
- – Toshiko
- – Naoko, Shinobu's mother
- – Shizuko, Nogi's wifeA False Student – Hikoichi's mother
- – Tsuya
- – Hatsu Shiozaki
- – Atsuko YamagataZatoichi the Fugitive – Maki
- – Setsu Noro
- – Fujiko Arima
- – Matsuyo HidakaZatoichi and the Doomed Man – Shimazo's wifeThe School of Spies – Kikuno MiyoshiThe Kii River – YasuLost Spring – Taza MurakoshiLove for an Idiot – SumieThe Snow Woman – Soyo
- – Fusae Kawazu Station – Ryosuke's motherA Promise – Tatsu, Ryōsaku's wifeRhapsody in August – 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, 4th Class
- 1991: Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Actress for ''Rhapsody in August''