Shimizu Misa
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is a Japanese actress. She made her screen debut by winning the heroine audition for 1987 film Shōnan Bōsōzoku. She starred in NHK
's morning drama series Seishun Kazoku in 1989. She portrayed Keiko, the female protagonist, in Palme d'Or
winning The Eel directed by Shohei Imamura
. She also makes regular appearances in Masayuki Suo
's films. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Hochi Film Award
for Okoge
, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
, Future Memories: Last Christmas
.
In 1998, she married an enlisted US Army soldier stationed in Japan and moved to the USA. She gave birth to a daughter in April 2003, and a son two years later. She lived in Maryland with her husband and two children, until they returned to Japan in 2005.
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
's morning drama series Seishun Kazoku in 1989. She portrayed Keiko, the female protagonist, in Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
winning The Eel directed by Shohei Imamura
Shohei Imamura
was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...
. She also makes regular appearances in Masayuki Suo
Masayuki Suo
is a Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.According to Suo:- Life and career :...
's films. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Hochi Film Award
Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by the Hochi Shimbun.- Categories :*Best Picture*Best International Picture*Best Actor*Best Actress*Best Supporting Actor*Best Supporting Actress*Best New Artist*Special Award*Best Director- Winner :...
for Okoge
Okoge
is a gay-themed Japanese film written and directed by Takehiro Nakajima, released in 1992. It is also a common slang term.- Cast :- Awards :* 1992 Hochi Film Award: Best Actress , Best Supporting Actor...
, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
is a 1992 Japanese film directed by Masayuki Suo. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:In order to graduate from college in a timely manner, and to gain the job waiting for him due to his family connections, Shuhei must join the school's sumo team to please his...
, Future Memories: Last Christmas
Future Memories: Last Christmas
is a 1992 Japanese film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita.-Awards and nominations:17th Hochi Film Award* Won: Best Actress - Misa Shimizu-References:...
.
In 1998, she married an enlisted US Army soldier stationed in Japan and moved to the USA. She gave birth to a daughter in April 2003, and a son two years later. She lived in Maryland with her husband and two children, until they returned to Japan in 2005.
Filmography
(partial list)- Shōnan Bakusōzoku (湘南爆走族) (1987)
- Inamura Jane (稲村ジェーン Inamura Jeen) (1990)
- Baka Yarō! 3: Henna Yatsura (バカヤロー!3 へんな奴ら) (1990)
- Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (シコふんじゃった。 Shiko Funjata.) (1991)
- Mirai no Omoide (未来の想い出) (1992)
- OkogeOkogeis a gay-themed Japanese film written and directed by Takehiro Nakajima, released in 1992. It is also a common slang term.- Cast :- Awards :* 1992 Hochi Film Award: Best Actress , Best Supporting Actor...
(おこげ) (1992) - Home Work (1992)
- Chūshingura Shijūshichi-nin no Shikaku (忠臣蔵 四十七人の刺客) (1994)
- Gerende ga Tokeru Hodo Koi Shitai (ゲレンデがとけるほど恋したい。) (1995)
- Shall We Dance (Shall We ダンス Shall We Dansu) (1996) as Natsuko
- Ningen Isu (人間椅子) (1997)
- The Eel (うなぎ) (1997): Shimizu shot to worldwide fame at the 1997 Cannes Film FestivalCannes Film FestivalThe Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
where this film won the Palme d'OrPalme d'OrThe Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
. She later won the Fumiko Yamaji Prize and the Japan Academy's Leading Actress award. - Zakurokan (柘榴館) (1997)
- Gimu to Engi (義務と演技) (1997)
- Dr. AkagiDr. AkagiDr. Akagi, known in Japan as , is a 1998 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.- Plot :The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname...
(カンゾー先生 Kanzō-sensei) (1998) - Atsumono (あつもの) (1999)
- Kyū no Ichi Kinyūdō (九ノ一金融道) (1999)
- Warm Water Under a Red BridgeWarm Water Under a Red Bridgeis a 2001 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...
(赤い橋の下のぬるい水 Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu) (2001): Shimizu plays a woman with a rather bountiful problem—she fills up with water and the only way to get rid of it, is to make love... - The Sea is Watching (海は見ていた Umi wa Miteita) (2002): About samuraiSamuraiis the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
-era girls in a small seaside town brothel. Shimizu plays the slightly older, diffident Kikuno, a big sister to the younger girls in the house. Kimuno has two regular customers—an abusive middle-aged yakuzaYakuza, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
and a tender elderly widower who asks her to move in with him—but she weaves her own mysterious and forlorn story. Screenplay by Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawawas a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
, directed by Kei KumaiKei Kumaiwas a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he worked as director's assistant....
. - Paper Moon Affair (プライベート・ムーン Puraibeeto Mūn) (2005): Shimizu stars as Keiko, an enigmatic Japanese beauty, married to a domineering Chinese husband, forced to find herself while lost in a small town in the remote Pacific Northwest.
- Ubume no Natsu (姑獲鳥の夏) (2005)
- Nijūni-sai no Wakare: Lycoris Hamizu Hanamizu Monogatari (22才の別れ Lycoris 葉見ず花見ず物語) (2005)
- "Umikaze ni fukarete" (2008)
- Rain Fall (2009)
- The Harimaya BridgeThe Harimaya BridgeThe Harimaya Bridge is a 2009 film written and directed by American filmmaker Aaron Woolfolk. It was filmed in Kochi Prefecture, Japan and San Francisco, California, U.S.A. The film had a nationwide theatrical release in Japan in 2009 and an independent theatrical release in the United States in 2010...
(2009) - Memoirs of a Teenage AmnesiacMemoirs of a Teenage AmnesiacMemoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2010 drama film starring Japanese actress Maki Horikita, Japanese actors Kenichi Matsuyama and Yuya Tegoshi, and American actor Anton Yelchin based on a book written by Gabrielle Zevin.-Cast:...
(誰かが私にキスをした) (2010)
TV series
(partial list)- 29-sai no Yūutsu (29歲の憂うつ) (2000): played 29-year old Kudo, an owner of a lesbian bar.
- Fūrin KazanFurin Kazan (Taiga drama)was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007.The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War...
(風林火山) (2007): played Sanada YukitakaSanada Yukitakawas a daimyō of Shinano Province who became one of Takeda Shingen's 'Twenty-four Generals' , submitting to become Takeda's vassal after a long and difficult struggle against him....
's wife Shinome.